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Jesse Norman

Biography

Jesse Norman

Jesse Norman is widely regarded as one of the rising stars of the British House of Commons. As Member of Parliament for Hereford and South Herefordshire, he was given the prestigious Parliamentarian of the Year award in 2012. Educated at Oxford University (BA) and University College London (MPhil, PhD), he has taught philosophy at University College London, and is the author of several books and political works, including COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM. He lives in Hereford and London.

Jesse Norman

Books by Jesse Norman

Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
by Jesse Norman - Biography, History, Nonfiction

Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past 300 years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights and the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, and a lifelong campaigner against arbitrary power. Revered by great Americans, including Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, Burke has been almost forgotten in recent years. But as politician and political philosopher Jesse Norman argues in this penetrating biography, we cannot understand modern politics without him.