Interview 25 November 2012
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A Road Not Taken
an interview by Gerald J. Russello
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In the aftermath of the 2012 election, the Bookman interviews Michael Brendan Dougherty, national correspondent for The American Conservative, on the thinking and likely influence of Patrick J. Buchanan and his New Majority—and the prospects for Republicans to interrupt current trends by reaching out to African-Americans and urban voters.
Best of the Bookman 25 November 2012
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A Conservative Scholar’s Wisdom
George H. Nash
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The Case for Conservatism by Francis Graham Wilson, with a new introduction by Russell Kirk. Transaction Publishers [1951, 1969, 1990, 2011], 74 pp., $20 paper.
Review 18 November 2012
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A Candle in the Darkness
Stephen B. Presser
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Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner. Thomson/West (St. Paul), 2012608 pp., $49.95, cloth.
Best of the Bookman 18 November 2012
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The Character of Our Constitution
Bruce Frohnen
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Rights and Duties: Reflections on Our Conservative Constitution by Russell Kirk. Spence Publishing Company, 1997, 208 pp., $28 cloth.
Review 11 November 2012
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Pure Narrative Pleasure
Craig Bernthal
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Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman. Viking Adult, 2012, Cloth, 400 pages, $28.
Best of the Bookman 11 November 2012
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Living Conservatism
Edward Ericson, Jr.
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Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: the Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville, by Bruce Frohnen. University Press of Kansas, 1993. Cloth, 264 pages, $25.
Essay 5 November 2012
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Jacques Barzun, 1907–2012
Mark Malvasi
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“Neither an unthinking optimist nor a congenital pessimist, Barzun took the long view that only history can provide.”
Review 4 November 2012
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The Gifts of the Present
James E. Person Jr.
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Berkeley-Paris Express: A Lively Memoir of Studying Classical Music and Painting by Webster Young. Santa Fe, N.M.: Editions D’Auteurs, 2012, 347 pages, $14.50; Kindle Edition, $9.95.
Best of the Bookman 4 November 2012
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The Unknown Hegel
W. Wesley McDonald
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The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right by Paul Edward Gottfried. Dekalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986,
Revised edition 2010. Paper, $24.
Review 31 October 2012
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The Living, the Dead, and the Living Dead
Ashlee L. Cowles
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Lord of the Hollow Dark by Russell Kirk. St. Martin’s Press, 1979.
Review 21 October 2012
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Glory and Indignity
Allen Mendenhall
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John Randolph of Roanoke
by David Johnson.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012
Cloth, 352 pages, $45.
Best of the Bookman 21 October 2012
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Sir Henry Sumner Maine on Democracy
Dennis T. Connell
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Popular Government, by Henry Sumner Maine. Introduction by George W. Carey. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics [1885, 1976] [free online PDF edition at Liberty Fund].
Review 14 October 2012
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Faith and Twelve Presidents
Gary Scott Smith
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The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents: From Truman to Obama
by David L. Holmes.
University of Georgia Press, 2012
296 pages, $30.
Best of the Bookman 14 October 2012
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History Resurgent
Brainard Cheney
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Historical Consciousness, or The Remembered Past by John Lukacs. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. [Rev ed. Transaction 1994, 411 pages.]
Mere unthinking negative opposition to
the current of events, clutching in despair at what we still
retain, will not suffice in this age. A conservatism of instinct
must be reinforced by a conservatism of thought and imagination.
Russell Kirk
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