Need a review essay for the book The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. This book in its intellectual/social/historical/political context
internal motivations
o what prompted your author to write this book
o what other explanatory options were available (seek controversy)
what does your author say about them, and
how does he/she persuade you that his/her position is better
This will require some additional reading of those competing narratives
external reception
o how was this book received
find reviews
find citations in specialist literature
o did it contribute to an on-going polemic?
work this up: most of these are modernist works from the mid-twentieth century
Required: Bibliography (on a separate page; does not count toward page length)
Twelve sources minimum (= monographs or scholarly articles [book reviews dont count])
Footnotes (not end notes, not parenthetical citations; author + date inadequate for History)
Style = Turabian/University of Chicago Press
