Dr. Kirk was one of this century's foremost men of letters. He was the founder of the conservative quarterlies Modern Age and The University Bookman. The Conservative Mind, Edmund Burke, The Roots of American Order, Enemies of the Permanent Things, and Eliot and His Age are among his over thirty books.
"If you are not a Burke scholar…Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered
must be read first."
—The World & I
"This is the liveliest and most accessible one-volume biography of
Edmund Burke."
—The Bookwatch
“Kirk’s scholarship is wide-ranging . . . and of course he brings
to bear his close knowledge of the vast array of modern Burke
scholarship. [His] . . . book is both elegant and eloquent, and it
helps to fill a real need. ”
—Jeffrey Hart, National Review
“[T]he book serves as a good short introduction to Burke’s life and
throught.”
—Library Journal
|“No one knows more about Burke or writes of him with as much
authority as did Russell Kirk.”
—M.D. Aeschliman, The Wanderer
“Edmund Burke is the very book for the non-specialist and the very
book that no specialist will want to be without. It is at once a
general introduction to the essence of Burke’s thought and a major
reassessment of Burke in the light of the vast body of scholarship
now available on him.”
—G.B. Tennyson, University Bookman
“Only a man of Kirk’s provenance and ambiance would have been
appropriate for the job—to reassert, by way of Burke, ‘the natural
law tradition [against] the positivism, nominalism and scientific
materialism of modern liberal thought,’ as Carl Cone has put
it.”
—C.P. Ives, Modern Age
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