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Article: Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered.
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Wilmington, Del.: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1997 285 pp., $24.95
If you are not a Burke scholar, Russell Kirk's book, Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered, must be read first. The second book under review, The Enduring Edmund Burke: Bicentennial Essays, edited by Ian Crowe, only makes sense if you have a general understanding of Burke's life and thought. Both together will hopefully entice the reader to explore Burke himself.
Russell Kirk patterned himself on the model of Edmund Burke and Burke's follower, Sir Walter Scott. Both Burke and Kirk could be characterized as new men who were not financially endowed, who intertwined their families and ...