Ray Browne, ed. The Burke-Paine Controversy.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

I – TEXTS

Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke

The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine

II – CONTEMPORARY REACTIONS

Samuel Johnson

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

“Letters of Publicola,” John Quincy Adams

Newspaper Accounts

An Address to the Hon. Edmund Burke from the Swinish Multitude

A Whipper for Levelling Tommy

III – THE CONTROVERSY TODAY

“Edmund Burke and the French Revolution,” Woodrow Wilson

From Political Thought in England: Locke to Bentham, Harold J. Laski

“Burke and the Moral Imagination,” Irving Babbitt

“Tom Paine: Republican Pamphleteer,” Vernon L. Parrington

“The Theory of Oligarchy: Edmund Burke,” Robert M. Hutchins

“Thomas Paine: Democrat,” Howard Penniman

“Thomas Paine: Rationalist,” Perry Miller

“The Hero as Politician,” Gertrude Himmelfarb

“The Indestructible Burke,” Raymond Moley

From The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk

“Burke’s Reflections,” John Dos Passos

“Edmund Burke and the American Liberal Tradition,” Arnold A. Rogow

From The Idea of a Christian Society, T. S. Eliot

From The Liberal Imagination, Lionel Trilling

“After Reading Burke,” W. Somerset Maugham

“Tom Paine and the Vulgar Style,” James T. Boulton

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF EVENTS

SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING