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 touchstone for a reinvigorated movement and began a sea change in Americans' attitudes toward...
Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beat...
Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated consevative movement in the 1950s and began a sea change in Americans' attitudes toward traditionalism. In this volume, Bradley J. Birzer investigates the life and work of the man known as the founder of postwar conservatism in America.
Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated consevative movement in the 1950s and began a sea change i...
