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conservatives, the vitality of Birzer's narrative coupled with its
insightful recovery of requisite conservative themes will keep
Kirk from becoming a lifeless icon or byword.
General readers will enjoy the accessible introduction to Kirk's
life and thought. Scholars and students, including those already
steeped in Kirk's work, will profit from Birzer's keen use of archival
material (including Kirk's correspondence) and his command of
Kirk's corpus of writing. Whereas previous monographs on Kirk
by James E. Person Jr., W. Wesley McDonald, John M. Pafford, and
Gerald J. Russello are primarily intellectual studies recounting Kirk
the scholar, Birzer also gives us the first extended measure of Kirk
the man. And it is perhaps in our measure of Kirk the man that
we find our solution to the contemporary crisis of conservatism.
Harking back to his baptismal namesake, St. Augustine, Kirk's life
reminds us that the ordo amoris is the point of life together. Consistent with Kirk's claim that conservatism is sustained by a "body
of sentiments," conservatives must be as ready to defend what is
lovable as we are to safeguard what is true.
In Birzer's recounting of Kirk's youth in Plymouth, Michigan,
we find the initial ordering of Kirk's affections. Like Kirk's own
recounting in his autobiography, The Sword of Imagination, Birzer
emphasizes the influence of his maternal grandfather, Frank
Pierce. Though Kirk appreciated his schooling (claiming that he
graduated before Dewey raised the drawbridge), it was not in
a classroom that Kirk acquired his old soul. Rather, long walks
with his grandfather and the volumes in his grandfather's library
formed his imagination.
Extensive and diverse reading naturally led to writing, and Kirk
did not hesitate to put his skills to the test, earning literary prizes as
early as thirteen and winning Scholastic Magazine's national essay
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