![]() In 1929, Cobban wrote a book on Burke and the political ideas of the Lake poets which annoyed the Left in 1960, when he reissued it, he noted wrily that in the meantime Burke had become a “victim to the uncritical adulation of the right in America.” These “attempts to condemn or applaud the ideas or annex the name and reputation of Burke,” he wrote with superb disdain, “like any other attempt to exploit the past to the advantage of transient political interests, are not history. Alfred Cobban belongs to the first group in a lifetime of vigorous and witty polemicizing, he has aimed at a variety of targets with a fine disregard for political consequences that only a thoroughly committed historian could muster. ![]() ![]() Some historians are born controversialists, others have controversy thrust upon them. ![]()
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