Power Tends To Corrupt: Lord Acton's Study of Liberty
“Lazarski has given us a very helpful discussion of Acton’s ideas contextualized within a broader current of religious, political and philosophical reflection. Especially illuminating is the exploration of Acton’s ideas vis-à-vis those of Tocqueville, Burke, and Dollinger. To this extent, Lazarski advances our understanding of Catholic and liberal political thought in the 19th century.” — Samuel Gregg, Director of Research at the Acton Institute and author, most recently, ofWilhelm Ropke's Political Economy “What is particularly unique about this book is Lazarski’s very detailed analysis of Acton’s historical thinking. Although Acton was an historian, who worked on the Cambridge historical studies, no other work to my knowledge examines as thoroughly as this one Acton’s view of the past in terms of the goal that he saw as operative in human events.” — Paul Gottfried, Professor of Humanities, Raffensperger Chair of the Political Science Department at Elizabethtown College, and author, most recently, ofLeo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America "Especially illuminating is the exploration of Acton's ideas vis-a-vis those of Tocqueville, Burke, and Dollinger. –Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute