Russell Kirk: American Conservative

• Published in: Journal of Southern History Vol. 83; no. 4; pp. 1012 - 1013
• Main Author: Brown, David S.
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Houston SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 01.11.2017; Southern Historical Association
• Subjects: Biographies; Birzer, Bradley J; Burke, Jeremy; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965); Ideology; Novels; Philosophy; Politics; Rand, Ayn (1905-1982); Scotland; Chicago Illinois; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Michigan

Kirk' s scholarship, particularly his important book The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana (Chicago, 1953), challenged the notion advanced by much of the postwar professoriat that the country's political philosophy, as a rule, trended liberal. Birzer, a historian at Hillsdale Coll...