I hope you have time to walk around the library if you havent had a chance to see what we done. By the end of this year we have brought 15 authors to toledo and thats made possible through generous support to the robert legacy foundation. It allows to not only bring world renowned authors but helps us be a catalyst for positive change in toledo county. And that includes homework helpers, the ready to reprogram in the summary. And speaking of summer read we will be announcing a winter read. Keep an eye out will try to get the Community Reading just like the summer the month of january. In addition to the foundation we always have gratitude to the media sponsors, buckeye broadband and the supporting sponsor in our Community Sponsor friends of the library. As i mentioned weve had a great year and we are not done yet. I hope youll join us later this month as we wrap up the 2019 series we have authors with kevin wilson on november 14 at 7 00 p. M. Downstairs and tickets are free but registr
Russell kirk one day he woke up and said i want to write a book about all the conservatives that have lived and worked and made a difference in our history. No one had done that before. They express in irritable mental gestures. That was the disdain or contempt the liberals had were conservatives. Russell kirk said, i dont think thats right. He put together this book called the conservative mind which liberals said the words impossible. When they began reading the book there was and had been a conservative tradition in america since the founding. [indiscernible]. When he got through and published the conservative mind. Liberal said, wow. Wasnt a hit right away . It was. For depleting if you will. Deep reading if you will. It made russell kirk really the most important conservative intellectual in america. In many of your book, you indicate that 1946 was a key year in the modern conservative movement. Why is that . 1944 and in 1945. The Readers Digest picked it up and did a digest of ex
Host author the lee edwards, who was russell kirk and why is he such a hero to conservatives . Russell kirk one day he woke up and said i want to write a book about all the conservatives that have lived and worked and made a difference in our history. No one had done that before. They express in irritable mental gestures. That was the disdain or contempt the liberals had were conservatives. Russell kirk said, i dont think thats right. He put together this book called the conservative mind which liberals said the words impossible. When they began reading the book there was and had been a conservative tradition in america since the founding. [indiscernible]. When he got through and published the conservative mind. Liberal said, wow. Wasnt a hit right away . It was. For depleting if you will. Deep reading if you will. It made russell kirk really the most important conservative intellectual in america. In many of your book, you indicate that 1946 was a key year in the modern conservative m
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