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.
And be sometimes several screens simultaneously. And were getting messages sometimes from the same person in different channels, and then tough figure out you have to figure out did this text message come first or did this email saying, no, im going to meet you at the movie theater, and then you have to look at the time stamps, and the past is mixed up with the future. Meanwhile, we have tremendous is access to the past. We know more about the lives of bach and beethoven and mozart and mahler and have zinn sky than any of them knew about their predecessors. We have instant access to all of their music. The music from our personal pasts, the music that we loved when we were kids, its as available to us as music from ancient times and music thats just being recorded yesterday. And it all gets mixed up together. So were in a kind of eternal present. You say that theres a philosophy in our society that we should live in the present. Thats exactly where we should be. But that doesnt really
Bradley, 1953 publication of the conservative mind, what was the reception . Pretty incredible. Far more so than anybody wouldve expected. When it came out it came out in may of 1953. It took about a it took about a month for to catch on. Once i did it caught fire. Roughly 75 or 80 publications in the English Speaking world. Everything from the Chicago Tribune and the new york times, london types, times literary supplement, they all reviewed it, sometimes two or three times and going through the summer feeling like maybe they didnt do it justice the first time. So it caught fire in a way that most academic books never even dream of doing. And certainly as a young man he hopes he would have a good career, and it went well beyond what he was expecting. It put his publisher on the map as well. Who is kurt . Guest russell kirk was born in 19882 to a very poor family in plymouth, michigan. His family has always, they all point back to 1623 and his mother side. They come over they come over
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