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