Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics

Gertrude Himmelfarb

259 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

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Lord Acton is author of the maxim, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely". A liberal Catholic and distinguished historian, Lord Acton produced vigorous denunciations of nationalism, racism, statism, and bigotry th...

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