{"product_id":"gateway-to-the-french-revolution-select-writings-by-edmund-burke-friedrich-gentz-and-joseph-de-maistre-9781684514502","title":"Gateway to the French Revolution: Select Writings by Edmund Burke, Friedrich Gentz, and Joseph de Maistre","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe legacy of the French Revolution critiqued by the most important thinkers of the day.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGateway to the French Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e features voices critical of the French Revolution and its aftershocks. Edmund Burke's critique of the Revolution is widely known and set into motion the development of political Conservatism. Also decrying the excesses of the Terror is Friedrich Gentz, a lesser-known Austrian diplomat who would become an architect of European peace after Napoleon's failed ambitions, and Joseph de Maistre, a Savoiard nobleman whose own reflections would form a current of counter-revolutionary reactionary that has continues to have implications in our contemporary world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRussell Kirk\u003c\/b\u003e (1918-1994), the father of intellectual conservatism in America, was the author of more than thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Conservative Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEliot and His Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Roots of American Order\u003c\/i\u003e. His legacy lives on in the work of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, based at his ancestral home in Mecosta, Michigan.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gateway Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914446213394,"sku":"9781684514502","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4e677c4e-f8d8-43d8-98b2-f70aba673e21.jpg?v=1738817008","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gateway-to-the-french-revolution-select-writings-by-edmund-burke-friedrich-gentz-and-joseph-de-maistre-9781684514502","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}