Russell Kirk: The American Cicero -An Introduction

http://www.kirkcenter.org/ The Sage of Mecosta, "Kirk may be one of, if not, the most important American thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a historian, a literary biographer, a political biographer, a best-selling novelist, a social critic and essayist, a defender of academic freedom, an economist, an advisor to presidents and presidential candidates, a Roman Catholic, a Stoic, a Christian Humanist, a convinced believer in ghosts, a nationally-known debater and lecturer, a traditionalist, an environmental conservationist, a Justice of the Peace, the founder of the post-World War II conservative movement, and, perhaps above all, a truly charitable soul. In short, he was a "man of letters" and a natural aristocrat, both being rare to nearly extinct in the twentieth-century." ~Bradley Birzer http://www.imaginativeconservative.org/

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Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke and Cicero: Three great men