Russell Kirk: American Conservative by Birzer, Bradley J.

Russell Kirk: American Conservative (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813166186)

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Russell Kirk: American Conservative by Birzer, Bradley J.

Russell Kirk: American Conservative

$70.00
Russell Kirk: American Conservative by Birzer, Bradley J.

Russell Kirk: American Conservative

$70.00
Format: Hardcover
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Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., Leo Strauss, and Eric Voegelin all published important works at this time, none of their writings would match the influence of Russell Kirk's 1953 masterpiece The Conservative Mind. This seminal book became the intellectual touchsto

Author: Bradley J. Birzer
ISBN-10: 0813166187
ISBN-13: 9780813166186
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 11/09/2015
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.70d
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Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/24/2016 pg. 14
Choice 07/01/2016
By Bradley J. Birzer
By Bradley J. Birzer
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Bradley J. Birzer is Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies and professor of history at Hillsdale College and interim president and CEO of the American Conservative magazine. He is also the second Visiting Scholar of Conservative Thought and Policy, University of Colorado--Boulder, and the author of American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll and Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson. Birzer is a cofounder of and senior contributor to The Imaginative Conservative.

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