First posted in 1953, this magnificent work will be remembered in ages to come as one of our century’s most significant legacies. The then-young Kirk had written this during a time when liberalism was heralded as the just political and intellectual custom in America. There is absolutely no doubt that book is accountable to a large degree for the rise of conservatism as a viable and credible creed.

Kirk defines “the conservative mind” by examining such excellent men as Edmund Burke, James Fenimore Cooper, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benjamin Disraeli, Cardinal Newman, George Santayana, and lastly, T. S. Eliot. Vigorously written, the publication represents conservatism as an ideology born of sound intellectual traditions.