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
With aristotle of saint john are st. Agusta and. To be classically educated in a very new for. So america against hitler we thought of america as something separate and to keep those ideologies down. Even those good ideologies. And dehumanizing and some level. So the conservative mind is truly that. For what has come before in 2016 it was pretty revolutionary he was not catholic at this point would become much better on. Talk about the dignity of a human person with the atf community and they had been forgotten and more equal to fascism with a onetoone correspondence with the american way of life it would be trump all of that. With the it is be accessible . They were that is one of the reasons it is lost to was now but he was a household name in the 1950s one of my favorite stories is that in august 1953 he wanted to meet t. S. Eliot he was having his play performed for the first time and while he was there are you the dr. Russell kirk . And he was absolutely flabbergasted that anybody
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
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
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