Russell Kirk: American Conservative

by Bradley J. Birzer and Bradley J Birzer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813166187
• ISBN13: 9780813166186
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"