The sword of imagination

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.

First Sentence

Take this book for "a slotted window bellied like the fig's fruit," looking upon a prospect of the twentieth century - a sanguinary vista of a stricken field, for the most part, although here and there may be descried strong towers or safe houses.

Excerpt

Take this book for "a slotted window bellied like the fig's fruit," looking upon a prospect of the twentieth century - a sanguinary vista of a stricken field, for the most part, although here and there may be descried strong towers or safe houses.

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Other Editions

• The sword of imagination: memoirs of a half-century of literary conflictWilliam B. Eerdmans Pub.1995-01-01
• The Sword of ImaginationPaperbackWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company2002-06-01