Russell Kirk (1918–1994), considered the father of the postwar conservative intellectual movement, was one of the most influential writers of the last century. His many books include The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana; Eliot and his Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century; The Roots of American Order; and The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict.