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| name = Russell Kirk
| name = Russell Amos Kirk
| image = Russell Kirk.jpg
| image = Russell Kirk.jpg
| birth_date = October 19, 1918
| birth_date = October 19, 1918
| religion = [[Catholic]]<ref>[http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/3282/russell_kirk_conservative_convert_catholic.aspx Russell Kirk: Conservative, Convert, Catholic]</ref><ref>[http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/10/russell-kirk-dogmatic-conservative.html Russell Kirk: Dogmatic Conservative]</ref>
| religion = [[Catholic]]<ref>[http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/3282/russell_kirk_conservative_convert_catholic.aspx Russell Kirk: Conservative, Convert, Catholic]</ref><ref>[http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/10/russell-kirk-dogmatic-conservative.html Russell Kirk: Dogmatic Conservative]</ref>
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'''Russell Amos Kirk''' (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an [[American]] political theorist, [[conservative]] intellectual, historian of ideas, social critic, and man of letters, who is best known for his role in the American conservative movement. Kirk's 1953 book, ''The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana'',<ref>It went into 7 editions, the later ones with the title ''The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot''.</ref> attempted without complete success to lay claim to the history and direction of the modern conservative movement. His book traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, giving pride of place to the ideas of 18th century British writer and statesman [[Edmund Burke]], an Irish Protestant who was sympathetic to independence for the American colonies.
'''Russell Amos Kirk''' (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an [[American]] political theorist, [[conservative]] intellectual, historian of ideas, social critic, and man of letters, who is best known for his role in the American conservative movement. Kirk's 1953 book, ''The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana'',<ref>It went into 7 editions, the later ones with the title ''The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot''.</ref> attempted without complete success to lay claim to the history and direction of the modern conservative movement. His book traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, giving pride of place to the ideas of 18th century British writer and statesman [[Edmund Burke]], an Irish Protestant who was sympathetic to independence for the American colonies.
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