Imaginative Conservatism

Outstanding. Kirk was a lively and lucid writer, and the letters speak wonderfully well for themselves. The result is an engrossing set of stories that work together to present the life and character of an important and fascinating thinker—and an important and fascinating personality.

~Bruce Frohnen, author of Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville

Person is to be commended. He has done an extraordinary job in choosing, editing, and annotating the letters.

~Bradley J. Birzer, author of Russell Kirk: American Conservative and American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll

This is the first collection of Kirk's considerable correspondence, and it is a great service to American intellectual history generally and to that of conservatism in particular. Person's excellent selections explain Kirk's work and his enduring themes, and provide context on important events of the moment.

~National Review

Imaginative Conservatism is worthwhile for laymen and scholars alike—a very personal journey through one great man's attempt at bringing great ideas to the world, one letter, one connection, one article, and one book at a time.

~University Bookman

A leisurely encounter with this correspondence allows one to appreciate the multiple ways Kirk aimed to sustain and renew a 'moral imagination' rooted in the spiritual and cultural patrimony of Western civilization.

~Law and Liberty

A real gem.

~The Heavy Laden Bookshelf

[A] rich, entertaining, and often instructive selection of Kirk's letters from James E. Person, Jr., a Kirk scholar who was also a Kirk friend and associate. The volume Person has assembled... deepen[s] our encounter with Kirk (1918-1994) as man, father, philosopher, and author.

~Law and Liberty