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Article: Oxford Years: The Letters of Willmoore Kendall to His Father.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 21, 1994
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Oxford Years: The Letters of Willmoore Kendall to His Father, edited by Yvona Kendall Mason
(Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Bryn Mawr, Pa., 527 pp., $14.95)
READERS of the early issues of NATIONAL REVIEW will instantly recognize the name of Willmoore Kendall. A brilliant political theorist and platform debater, an editor of NR from its rounding until 1963, a mentor of William F. Buckley Jr. at Yale, Professor Kendall became one of the pre-eminent conservative intellectuals of the mid twentieth century. Argumentative, even quarrelsome, he often exasperated friend and foe alike, all the while turning out some of the most provocative political-science ...
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