The sword of imagination
Subtitle: memoirs of a half-century of literary conflict
By: Russell Kirk.
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Pub.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
Subjects: Kirk, Russell.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.; College teachers -- United States -- Biography.; Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: Russell Kirk (1918-1994) was an active participant in the intellectual, social, and political contests of our era. This memoir, written dispassionately in the third person, is a lively account of the literary and political controversies of more than half a century.

This book is as much a chronicle of the confusion and perplexities of the twentieth century as it is an autobiography. Philosophical insights and religious observations abound. Its portraits of Henry Ford, the Earl of Crawford, Flannery O'Connor, the Archduke Otto von Habsburg, T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Donald Davidson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and other notables are unparalleled.
Notes: Includes index.