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Fall 2011

Contents

Editor’s Note: Moving Briskly

Interview 30 September 2011
book cover A Story of Redemption in Washington
an interview by Gerald J. Russello
A conversation with Tim Goeglein.
Review 2 October 2011
book cover On Education, a Liberal that Liberals Shun
a review by James Green
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 261 pp., $17 paper, 2009
Review 9 October 2011
book cover Books in Little
a review by David G. Bonagura, Jr.
Review 16 October 2011
book cover Why the Union Soldiers Fought
a review by Allen Mendenhall
The Union War by Gary W. Gallagher (Harvard University Press, 2011), 256 pages, $28.
Review 23 October 2011
book cover Revisionist History at Its Best
a review by Francis P. Sempa
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. 579pp, $29.95.
Review 30 October 2011
book cover An Everlasting Man of Letters
a review by Adam Schwartz
G. K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), xiv + 747 pp., $65.00 cloth
Essay 6 November 2011
book cover Santayana’s Standing
by James Seaton
A response to David Dilworth.
Essay 9 November 2011
book cover Fortunate Friendships
by Timothy S. Goeglein
The Bookman interviewed Tim Goeglein earlier this year. Below is an excerpt from his new memoir, The Man in the Middle, featuring his recollections of friendship with Russell Kirk. Dr. A. W. R. Hawkins offers a brief introduction.
Essay 13 November 2011
Herrick and Donne and the Problems of Modernist Poetics
by Mark Anthony Signorelli
Review 20 November 2011
book cover Lewis’s Aeneid, Labor Amoris
a review by Anthony Esolen
C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile translated by C. S. Lewis; edited by A. T. Reyes. Yale University Press, 2011. Hardcover, 184 pages, $28.
Review 20 November 2011
book cover Herbert Hoover, Revisionist
a review by Gerald J. Russello
Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath. Edited and with an introduction by George H. Nash. Hoover Institution Press, 2011. 957 pp. $40.95.
Review 25 November 2011
book cover Hemingway in Perspective
a review by Bruce Edward Walker
Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961 by Paul Hendrickson. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, 531 pp.
Review 27 November 2011
book cover Appealing to Burke’s Moral Imagination
a review by W. Wesley McDonald
Edmund Burke For Our Time: Moral Imagination, Meaning, and Politics by William F. Byrne Northern Illinois University Press (DeKalb, Illinois). 227 pages, $40.00, cloth, 2011.
Review 4 December 2011
book cover Religious Modernity
a review by Lee Trepanier
The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009 386 pages, $22.50.
On Essays and Letters 11 December 2011
On Instruction in Cheerful Forms
by James V. Schall, S.J.
On Essays and Letters
Review 14 December 2011
book cover Buckley and Individualist Conservatism
a review by Gerald J. Russello
Buckley: William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism by Carl T. Bogus. Bloomsbury Press, 2011. 405 pp. $30.00.
Symposium 19 December 2011
A Lukacs Symposium
by The Editors
Symposium 19 December 2011
book cover John Lukacs: Biblical Historical Thinking
by Francesca Aran Murphy
A Lukacs Symposium
Symposium 20 December 2011
book cover John Lukacs as Teacher
by John P. Rossi
A Lukacs Symposium
Symposium 21 December 2011
book cover The Awful Responsibility of Time
by Mark G. Malvasi
John Lukacs and the Problem of American History A Lukacs Symposium
Symposium 22 December 2011
book cover Lukacs and Kennan: Reflections on a Friendship
by Lee Congdon
A Lukacs Symposium
On Essays and Letters 28 December 2011
‘The Greatest Fool That Ever Lived’
by James V. Schall, S.J.
On Essays and Letters
Review 28 December 2011
book cover Celebrated Minor Contemporary American Poetry
a review by Eugene Schlanger
The Best American Poetry 2011 Edited by Kevin Young with David Lehman Scribner (New York, NY), 2011, xxvi + 211 pp., $35.00

Imagination it is that shapes society—moral imagination, or idyllic imagination, or diabolic imagination.

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The Kirk Center and The University Bookman regret the passing of sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz, who died in March. Recipient of many accolades, Horowitz was a sociologist of wide-ranging interests, from religion to analysis of state power and social order in assessing a society’s quality of life, an approach that has since become standard. Horowitz has a special place in the memory of the Kirk Center. It is he who made possible the Library of Conservative Thought, a collection of more than thirty volumes published by Transaction Press, with which Horowitz was long affiliated, and edited by Russell Kirk. These thirty-odd volumes constitute a basic reading list for the educated conservative, and include classics such as James Burnham’s Congress and the American Tradition, Irving Babbitt’s Rousseau and Romanticism, Orestes Brownson’s Selected Political Essays, and Kirk’s own America’s British Culture. These books brought the tradition of conservative reflection to a new generation, and rightly placed them alongside other important works of sociology, intellectual history, and politics. In his eulogy for Russell Kirk, given at Kirk’s Memorial Mass in 1994, Horowitz stated that Kirk was now “at one with the great tradition he helped articulate and recover”—words that also aptly describe the legacy of Irving Louis Horowitz. RIP. (17 Apr 2012)

Here’s a round-up of recent writings by Bookman editor Gerald Russello elsewhere on the Internet and in print. • At the Imaginative Conservative Russello responds to Claes Ryn’s argument that conservatives have failed the culture. • He reviews Gregory Wolfe’s Beauty Will Save the World in the October edition of Chronicles. • At the National Catholic Register he discusses a recent Colorado religious liberty case denying families access to funds for private education, based on an outdated reading of a bigoted “Blaine”-style amendment. • In The Wilson Quarterly, he reviews Why Trilling Matters. (15 Oct 2011)

The Imaginative Conservative blog has posted an excerpt and link to an essay by Pepperdine’s Ted McAllister on Kirk’s Conservative Mind that is worth a look: “What was then more readily an act of preservation has become today an act of recovery.” (1 Oct 2011)

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