Lehrman American Studies Center

Books

• J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth by Bradley J. Birzer
  • 5/5 Stars

  Peter Jackson’s film version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the accompanying proliferation of Rings-related paraphernalia, has once again brought the work of J. R. R. Tolkien to a popular audience. There are, however, few full and accessible…

• Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered by Russell Kirk
  • 5/5 Stars

  There is no better guide to this great British statesman than Russell Kirk. This lively and accessible biography is more than a historic overview of an important thinker, it is an unsurpassed introduction to a "politics of prudence."

• Gleanings from an Unplanned Life: An Annotated Oral History by James L. Buckley
  • 0/5 Stars

  United States senator, under secretary of state, federal appellate judge. James L. Buckley tells the story of his improbable transformation from a highly private businessman/lawyer into his "unplanned life" as probably the only American now alive who has served in…

• Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order by Michael P. Federici
  • 0/5 Stars

  Voegelin's philosophical project was to restore order in human souls and human societies in a century of civilizational catastrophe. For Voegelin, the "crisis of the West," reflected in the horrific wars and social chaos of the twentieth century, was the…

• Orestes Brownson: Signs of Contradiction by R.A. Herrera
  • 0/5 Stars

  Orestes Brownson is a new study of a major American intellectual whose work spanned a critical period of American and European history and remains topical (feminism, race, immigration, church and state, national unity, etc.) in our own age. Indeed, the…

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