Symposium 27 August 2012
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The Bookman goes back to school
Bookman contributors
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The University Bookman has long had a focus on education. Indeed, the archive reveals numerous reviews of college and high-school textbooks, and of course our founder Russell Kirk wrote often on education. As we approach the beginning of another school year, we asked some of our contributors for their advice to students coming back this fall on how to make the best of their education.
Review 19 August 2012
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Glass Houses
AWR Hawkins
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At War with the Word: Literary Theory and Liberal Education by R. V. Young. ISI Books, 1999, 2004. 211 pages.
Best of the Bookman 19 August 2012
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The Declaration as the Constitution
Kevin R. Gutzman
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Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question by Harry V. Jaffa. Regnery Gateway, 1994, 386 pp., $24 hardcover.
Review 12 August 2012
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Resisting Ideology’s Reductionism
Richard M. Gamble
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The New Jacobinism: America as Revolutionary State (2d expanded ed.) by Claes G. Ryn. National Humanities Institute, 2011, 163 pp., paper, $15.
Best of the Bookman 12 August 2012
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An American Classic
Claes G. Ryn
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Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt. Foreword by Russell Kirk, Liberty Classics, 1979, 390 pp.
Essay 5 August 2012
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Joseph Mitchell and the Free Life
Dermot Quinn
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The New Yorker’s Joseph Mitchell wrote with an almost Burkean enthusiasm for the neighborhoods, physical and metaphysical, of his city, the communities in which lived an array of eccentrics, oddballs, misfits, lonely, gifted, strange, surly, lovable people that could not be found so concentratedly in any other city in the world.
Best of the Bookman 5 August 2012
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The Architecture of a Man’s Time
Daniel James Sundahl
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Essays: Personal and Impersonal, by Milton Hindus. Black Sparrow Press, 1988 191 pp., paper, $10.00.
Review 29 July 2012
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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Charles H. Jeanfreau
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The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans, by Lawrence N. Powell. Harvard University Press, 2012. Cloth, 448 pages, $30.
Best of the Bookman 29 July 2012
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Mistaken Identities
John O’Sullivan
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America’s British Culture by Russell Kirk. Transaction Publishers, 1993. Cloth, 150 pages, $25.
Review 22 July 2012
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Union and Liberty
David G. Bonagura, Jr.
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You by Peter Troy. Doubleday, 2012, 400 pp., $27.
Best of the Bookman 22 July 2012
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Subterranean Truths
Robert Aickman
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Lord of the Hollow Dark by Russell Kirk. St. Martin’s Press, 1979. $10.95.
Essay 21 July 2012
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Searching while Blindfolded
Gerald J. Russello
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A comment on a silly piece by Russell Jacoby.
Review 15 July 2012
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American Sound—Twentieth Century
Thomas F. Bertonneau
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Voices of Stone and Steel: The Music of William Schuman, Vincent Persichetti, and Peter Mennin by Walter Simmons.
Scarecrow Press, 2010
Cloth, 438 pages, $70.
Best of the Bookman 15 July 2012
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The Relevance of T. S. Eliot
Arther S. Trace
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Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century by Russell Kirk. New York: Random House, 1972. [ISI 2008, 460 pages, paper, $18.]
A “conservative character [is] suspicious of doctrinaire alteration, respectful toward history, preferring variety over uniformity, acknowledging a moral order composed of human persons, not of mere political and economic atoms subservient to the state.”
Russell Kirk, A Program for Conservatives, 1954
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