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Reddit mentions of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
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There is a book which I am beginning to read that addresses this, I believe.
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Debate-Edmund-Burke-Thomas/dp/0465050972/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415980568&sr=8-1&keywords=The-Great-Debate-Edmund-Burke-Thomas-Paine-and-the-Birth-of-Right-and-Left
. . . or at least I hope addresses it. It holds up France as one pole and the U.S. on the other.
Thomas Howard's Lead, Kindly Light: My Journey to Rome (his On Being Catholic is also excellent.). He was raised Baptist, became an Episcopalian in his 20s, and then a Catholic in his 50s. For anyone who grew up protestant, he's Elisabeth Elliott's brother.
Also, Yuval Levin's fascinating The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left.
I don't think there is a copy of the book online. Here are reviews at Amazon.
I first read about Burke in The Great Debate by Yuval Levin, which was a fascinating book. I've tried to get through some of Burke's own works, but if I'm being totally honest, I find that manner of writing (that late 1700s English style) incredibly long-winded and difficult to slog through.
But I would like to do some more reading on Burke himself (as The Great Debate really focuses on the Burke/Paine contrast). If you had any recommendations, I'd greatly appreciate it.