Writers and Politics - Essays and Criticism

Arguably Conor Cruise O''Brien''s most influential and admired book was this brilliant collection of essays - on history, literature and public affairs - first published in 1965.

''I can still remember the excitement with which I discovered a copy of Writers and Politics, in a provincial library in Devonshire thirty years ago. Nobody who tries to write about either of those subjects, or about "the bloody crossroads" where they have so often met, can disown a debt to the Cruiser.'' Christopher Hitchens, London Review of Books

''When a liberal can write such pieces as "Mercy and Mercenaries", "Journal de Combat", "Varieties of Anti-Communism", "A New Yorker Critic", and "Generation of Saints", an important voice has returned to our culture.'' Raymond Williams, Guardian