Years ago, i thought you were both near list and now i know why. This is just fantastic. Thank you, tim. Old friend from college. Rave. Thank you all for coming. [applause]yone. Good evening, everyone. My name is Jennifer Pickel siren and im fairly new manager here at the Carnegie Library of pittsburgh and the third string players are getting tonight because the first and second were not available and i am very proud that i snuck in a sports analogy. I am also very pleased to welcome you to this event tonight, to name local event. This event is one of many i wonderful event plot to you through our partnership with pittsburgh arts and lectures. Ly the library in pittsburgh arts and lectures have beenn presenting events like this on for many years for broad ranges of audiences. We are always pleased for a very nice positive response to this event and we would invite you to next time bring a friend or two, help us promote peace and keep them going. I want to remind you that the library is
Years ago, i thought you were both near list and now i know why. This is just fantastic. Thank you, tim. Old friend from college. Rave. Thank you all for coming. [applause]yone. Good evening, everyone. My name is Jennifer Pickel siren and im fairly new manager here at the Carnegie Library of pittsburgh and the third string players are getting tonight because the first and second were not available and i am very proud that i snuck in a sports analogy. I am also very pleased to welcome you to this event tonight, to name local event. This event is one of many i wonderful event plot to you through our partnership with pittsburgh arts and lectures. Ly the library in pittsburgh arts and lectures have beenn presenting events like this on for many years for broad ranges of audiences. We are always pleased for a very nice positive response to this event and we would invite you to next time bring a friend or two, help us promote peace and keep them going. I want to remind you that the library is
Absolutely wonderful. Guest thanks for being here. Host and best of success on your next book. I cant wait to read it. [laughter] guest thank you. Host i cant wait to read it. Its going to be another changemaking book. Guest i hope so. Host thank you. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. Bradley birzer, 1953 publication of the conservative mind, what was the reception . Guest pretty incredible, actually. Far more so than anyone would have expected including kirk and his publisher. When it came out, it came out in may of 1953, and it took about a month for it to catch on. But once it did, it really just caught fire. Its roughly 7580 publications in the englishspeaking world, major ones. Everything from the chicago trib and the New York Herald tribune, New York Times, london times, times literary supplement. They all reviewed it, sometimes two or three times. Going through the summer, kind of fee
Whos endowed that chair . Guest it was not russell kirk. [laughter] that was endowed by a family whos passed away, unfortunately, the briggs out of colorado and a number of other donors as well. Kirk used to teach classics at the university of coloradoboulder during the summers back in the 70s and 80s, and a lot of money in colorado, and these people really liked kirk, so they endowed that. Very, very gracious of them. Host the book, russell kirk american conservative. Thanks for your time. Guest thanks, peter, very much. And next up on booktv, Bradley Birzer receives this years paolucci book award sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is awarded annually to a Nonfiction Book that, according to the sponsors, advances conservative principles. Ladies and gentlemen, if i can get your attention, please. [inaudible conversations] if i can get your attention. Thank you. I know some of you still have your dessert and coffee and, please, i encourage you to and continue eating.
So the books and no money at the very interested in the ideas here but a very esoteric. He ended up getting a full scholarship to Michigan State and he could have gone anywhere but he went to Michigan State, graduated in 1940, got a masters and then a fairly new university and was drafted into the military for five years and didnt get out until 1946. Then he got scotland and wrote the conservative mind and a reputation as i said a few moments ago thats when it exploded from the conservative mind which was just a dissertation to think about. From that point forward from 1953 until his death in 54, he was regarded as the touchstone for the modern conservatism up to the goldwater movement and once the movement in 64 this old days could fizzled it went down and that isnt where he was in 196a 1962 but had a good run. What were some of the ideas that were revolutionary . I think its important to put in the context of the times he is deeply worried about the fascism and nationalism into commu