# Edmund Burke for the Summer

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**Created:** [July 26, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edmund-burke-for-the-summer/629432 "2012-07-26T08:12:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/edmund-burke-for-the-summer/629432/1 "2012-07-26T08:12:04Z")

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I’ve decided for the summer to read the three books which surrounded the pamphlet war of Edmund Burke’s concerns about the French revolution:

- Richard Price’s ‘Discourse on the Love of our Country’;
- Edmund Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’;
- and finally, Thomas Paine’s ‘The Rights of Man’.

Anyone ever read these before? What were your opinions? Who is more convincing - Burke, or Paine? Or Price? 🙂