Writing Politics

<b>Explore the tradition of the political essay with this brilliant anthology.</b> <p/>David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed cogent and morally uncompromising political writers on the left today. He is also one of our finest intellectual historians and literary critics. In <i>Writing Politics</i> Bromwich presents twenty-seven essays by different writers from the beginning of the modern political world in the seventeenth century until recent times essays that grapple with issues that continue to shape history--revolution and war racism women's rights the status of the worker the nature of citizenship imperialism violence and nonviolence among them--and essays that have also been chosen as superlative examples of the power of written English to reshape our thoughts and the world. Jonathan Swift Edmund Burke Henry David Thoreau Harriet Taylor Abraham Lincoln George Eliot W. E. B. Du Bois Mohandas Gandhi Virginia Woolf Martin Luther King and Hannah Arendt are here among others along with a wide-ranging introduction.