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Russell Kirk

Book Reviews

Autumn/ November 1968

Quixotism Vindicated

By Russell Kirk

Our Lord Don Quixote: The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, with Related Essays by Miguel de Unamuno. Translated by Anthony Kerrigan; introduction by Walter Starkie. Princeton University Press, $6.50. […]

Book Reviews

Winter 1967

Thomas Carlyle, Novelist

By Russell Kirk

Sartor Called Resartus: The Genesis, Structure, and Style of Thomas Carlyle’s First Major Work by G. B. Tennyson. Princeton University Press, $8.50.   The great Victorian moralist and historian also […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1964

Rhetoricians and Politicians

By Russell Kirk

The Language Of Politics In The Age Of Wilkes And Burke by James T. Boulton. University of Toronto Press. $6.75. Nowadays, political debate sufficiently dreary—blighted by cant, slogan, and arid […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1960

Samuel Johnson the Statist

By Russell Kirk

The Politics Of Samuel Johnson by Donald J. Greene. Yale University Press. $5.50.   “The first Whig was the Devil.” A good many readers know little more of Samuel Johnson’s […]