Russell Kirk
Born
in Plymouth, Michigan, The United States
October 19, 1918
Died
April 29, 1994
Website
Influences
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
58 editions
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published
1953
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The Roots of American Order
by
23 editions
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1974
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Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered
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Politics of Prudence
8 editions
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published
1993
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Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism
11 editions
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published
1957
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Old House of Fear
11 editions
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published
1961
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Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales
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2 editions
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2004
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The American Cause
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12 editions
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1957
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Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century
by
15 editions
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1971
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The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things Are Written on the Sky
8 editions
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1987
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“Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”
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“If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.”
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“I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.”
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