![]() ![]() In 1953, he became the only American to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by that university. ![]() ![]() After the war, he attended the University of St Andrews in Scotland. After reading Albert Jay Nock's book, Our Enemy, the State, he engaged in a similar correspondence with him. During World War II, he served in the American armed forces and corresponded with a libertarian writer, Isabel Paterson, who helped to shape his early political thought. He was the son of Russell Andrew Kirk, a railroad engineer, and Marjorie Pierce Kirk. Russell Kirk was born in Plymouth, Michigan. He is often considered one of the most significant conservative men of letters of the twentieth century. He was also an accomplished author of Gothic and ghost story fiction. Kirk was considered the chief proponent of traditionalist conservatism. It traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, giving special importance to the ideas of Edmund Burke. His 1953 book The Conservative Mind gave shape to the postwar conservative movement in the U.S. Russell Amos Kirk (Octo– April 29, 1994) was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism. ![]()
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