BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brown, Charles C. Russell Kirk: A Bibliography. Mount Pleasant: Central Michigan University, Clarke Historical Library, 1981, 172 p.

Comprehensive, book-length bibliography of Kirk's books, essays, novels, and other writings, which also includes a partial listing of works about Kirk.

BIOGRAPHIES

Filler, Louis. “‘The Wizard of Mecosta’: Russell Kirk of Michigan.” Michigan History 63, No. 5 (September-October 1979): 12-18.

Accurate and insightful biographical essay on Kirk's life and accomplishments.

Person, James E., Jr. “Memory and the Continuum of Time: Russell Kirk's Life.” In Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind, pp. 1-29. Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1999.

Provides an overview of Kirk's life within the context of an intellectual biography. Person also identifies and elucidates four key terms and concepts he deems essential to understanding Kirk's works: the permanent things, the moral imagination, the illative sense, and the contract of eternal society.

CRITICISM

Frohnen, Bruce “The Quest for Virtue.” In Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville, pp. 176-204. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

Praises Kirk's emphasis on the need to cultivate virtue through enrichment of tradition and local, character-forming associations.

Hittinger, Russell. Introduction to Rights and Duties: Reflections on Our Conservative Constitution, by Russell Kirk, pp. xiii-xxxi. Dallas: Spence Publishing, 1997.

Examines the issue of how the written Constitution is unchanging while modern interpretation of the document changes substantially, and Kirk's understanding of the subject.

The Intercollegiate Review 30, No. 1 (fall 1994): 1-92.

Special tribute issue in memory of Kirk containing essays on his accomplishments by Gerhart Niemeyer, George A. Panichas, Bruce Frohnen, Roger Scruton, Peter J. Stanlis, Francis Canavan, and several other scholars.

Jacobson, Norman. Review of Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, by Russell Kirk. The American Political Science Review 51, no. 3. (September 1957): 830-32.

Criticizes Kirk for denying that faith in progress and government intervention are central to the American tradition.

McClay, Wilfred M. “The Mystic Chords of Memory: Reclaiming American History.” Heritage Lecture, no. 550. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, 1995, n.p.

Examines Kirk's historical consciousness and its implications as a lens for clarifying the need for a united historical consciousness in the United States.

Meyer, Frank S. “Collectivism Rebaptized.” In In Defense of Freedom, and Related Essays, pp. 3-13. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1996.

Focuses upon Kirk's thought and the implications of The Conservative Mind, finding it a well-intended but ultimately misguided answer to the claims of modern liberalism. This essay was originally published in 1955.

Nash, George H. “The Recovery of Tradition and Values.” In The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, pp. 50-73. Second Edition. Wilmington, Del.: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1996.

Discusses Kirk's role as a leader of those conservatives most concerned about defending tradition in post-World War II America.

National Review 46, no. 11 (13 June 1994): 54-61.

Elegiac essays by T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., Henry Regnery, William F. Buckley Jr., and several other admirers of Kirk.

Person, James E., Jr. The Unbought Grace of Life: Essays in Honor of Russell Kirk. Peru, Ill.: Sherwood Sugden, 1994, 271 p.

Contains celebratory essays on Kirk's accomplishment and essays written in fields of Kirk's expertise by John Lukacs, Peter J. Stanlis, M. E. Bradford, Forrest McDonald, Cleanth Brooks, and Andrew Lytle, among many others.

Rossiter, Clinton. “The Conservative Minority.” In Conservatism in America: The Thankless Persuasion, pp. 197-234. Second Edition. New York: Vintage Books, 1962.

Argues that Kirk and conservatism in general are throwbacks to an earlier age and out of place in America.

Russello, Gerald J. “Time and Timeless: The Historical Imagination of Russell Kirk.” Modern Age 41, no. 3 (summer 1999): 209-19.

Places Kirk in the tradition of philosophical historians seeking to connect the United States with a broader, Western cultural tradition.

Additional coverage of Kirk's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Authors in the News, Vol. 1; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4R, 145; Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 9; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 1, 20, 60; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; and St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers.