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
Students from a democratic society. It has 300 chapters on College Campuses. National and local leaders are in convention at the chicago coliseum in june, 1969, and take major credit for mob action, rioting and burnings on College Campuses throughout the nation. This is defining the organization of sds. We will talk about socialism anywhere, in the streets, anywhere. Secretary of sds and this is bernadine dore, secretary. [indiscernible] narrator are there commune are there communists in this organization . You will see. You can hear people talk and judge for yourself or the people are communists or not. There are communists in the organization, no doubt about that. There are also liberals in the organization. The sds is not something that exists in the school year and is set up again in the fall. We are going to be the streets in every city in this country from now on. We are going to replace capitalism with socialism. Narrator this is the National Revolutionary conference for united