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  • The Roots of American Order

    by Russell Kirk ...
    What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk identifies the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called a "tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia.For an understanding of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    The Conservative Mind

    From Burke to Eliot

    by Russell Kirk ...
    Narrated by Phillip Davidson ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 50 min

    First published in 1953, this magnificent work will be remembered in ages to come as one of our century's most important legacies. The then-young Kirk wrote this during a time when liberalism was heralded as the only political and intellectual tradition in America. There is no doubt that this book is responsible to a large degree for the rise of conservatism as a viable and credible creed.Kirk ... Read more

    $44.75 CAD

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  • Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism

    by Russell Kirk ...
    The modern conservative intellectual movement began in 1953 with Russell Kirk’s groundbreaking book The Conservative Mind. Four years later, he published a pithy, wry, philosophical summary of what conservatism really means. Originally titled The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Conservatism, this little book was essentially a popular version of The Conservative Mind.Now, a century after its author’s ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Politics of Prudence

    by Russell Kirk ...
    30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by Michael Federici.Conservatives are guided by prudence. So taught Russell Kirk (1918–1994), one of the founding fathers of American conservatism. If the tradition of prudential politics has fallen on hard times, its comeback might well begin in the pages of this wise book. An understanding of prudence as practical wisdom, the capacity of choosing ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Conservative Mind

    From Burke to Eliot

    by Russell Kirk ...
    "It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk's labor." — WILLIAM F BUCKLEY"A profound critique of contemporary mass society, and a vivid and poetic image - not a program, an image - of how that society might better itself. [ The Conservative Mind ] is, in important respects, the twentieth century's own version of the Reflections ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Conservative Mind

    From Burke to Eliot

    by Russell Kirk ...
    The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk is arguably one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative Mind launched the modern American Conservative Movement. A must-read. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Edmund Burke

    A Genius Reconsidered

    by Russell Kirk ...
    In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk ingeniously combines into a living whole the private and the public Burke. He gives us a fresh assessment of the great statesman, who enjoys even greater influence today than in his own time.Russell Kirk was a leading figure in the post-World War II revival of American interest in Edmund Burke. Today, no one ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Old House of Fear

    by Russell Kirk ...
    A founding father of the American conservative movement, Russell Kirk (1918–94) was also a renowned and bestselling writer of fiction. Kirk’s focus was the ghost story, or “ghostly tale” – a “decayed art” of which he considered himself a “last remaining master.” Old House of Fear, Kirk’s first novel, revealed this mastery at work. Its 1961 publication was a sensation, outselling all of Kirk’s ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Old House of Fear

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Russell Kirk ...
    On a fog-bound Hebridean shore, fishermen see a pillar of flame, hear gunfire, and sense that something sinister has awakened around the isolated island of Carnglass. Half a world away, industrial magnate Duncan MacAskival is haunted by the ancestral home his family lost, and he sends his young legal counsel, Hugh Logan, north to secure its purchase from the reclusive Lady MacAskival. What begins ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • On America

    How to Understand the Legacy of 1776

    by Russell Kirk ...
    As Americans mark the semiquincentennial of their republic’s birth, they are deeply divided over the nature and meaning of the American Founding. Does the United States rest on an intrinsically racist basis, as is now so often claimed? Did the Declaration of Independence commit the United States to a perpetual revolution aimed at liberating the American people—and others—from all inherited ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Randolph of Roanoke

    A Study in Conservative Thought

    by Russell Kirk ...
    John Randolph (1773-1833), known as John Randolph of Roanoke, was a planter and a Congressman from Virginia, serving in the House of Representatives at various times between 1799-1833, and the Senate from 1825-1827. He was also Minister to Russia under Andrew Jackson in 1830. After serving as President Thomas Jefferson's spokesman in the House, he broke with the president in 1805 as a result of ... Read more

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  • The Essential Russell Kirk

    Selected Essays

    by Russell Kirk ...
    As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement’s most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that Kirk’s was principally a literary and historical conservatism that refused to fit the irreducible ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD