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[Read by Phillip Davidson]
*One of the National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century
First published in 1953, this superb work will be remembered in age range to come as one in our century's most significant legacies. The then-young Kirk wrote this throughout a time when liberalism was heralded as really the only political and intellectual custom in America. There is no doubt that book is dependable to a sizable level for the rise of conservatism as a feasible and credible creed.
Kirk identifies ''the conservative mind'' by evaluating such brilliant men as Edmund Burke, Wayne Fenimore Cooper, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benjamin Disraeli, Cardinal Newman, George Santayana, and lastly, T.S. Eliot. Vigorously written, the book presents conservatism as an ideology born of sensible intellectual traditions.