Russell Kirk (1918–1994)

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1. Russell Kirk

   Author of The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales, Economics: Work and Prosperity in Christian Perspective

2. Clive Barker

   Author of The Damnation Game, Cabal, Books of Blood, Vol. 1

3. Robert McCammon

   Author of The Wolf's Hour, Usher's Passing, Bethany's Sin

4. F. A. Hayek

   Author of The Road to Serfdom, The Constitution of Liberty, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

5. William F. Buckley, Jr.

   Author of Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography, Up from Liberalism, The Unmaking of a Mayor

6. Richard M. Weaver

   Author of Ideas Have Consequences, The Ethics of Rhetoric, Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Times

7. Paul Johnson

   Author of A History of the American People, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties, Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

8. Thomas Sowell

   Author of A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy, The Quest for Cosmic Justice

9. Forrest McDonald

   Author of Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, E Pluribus Unum, States' Rights and the Union : Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876

10. Peter Straub

    Author of Ghost Story, Floating Dragon, Houses Without Doors

11. Edmund Burke

    Author of Reflections on the Revolution in France, A Vindication of Natural Society, Further Reflections on the Revolution in France

12. Robert H. Bork

    Author of Slouching Towards Gomorrah, The Tempting of America

13. Stephen King

    Author of It, The Dead Zone, Different Seasons

14. Whittaker Chambers

    Author of Witness, Odyssey of a friend; Whittaker Chambers' letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961

15. Eric Voegelin

    Author of The New Science of Politics, Science, Politics, And Gnosticism, The Nature of the Law and Related Legal Writings

16. T. E. D. Klein

    Author of The Ceremonies, Dark Gods

17. John Taylor

    Author of Arator, New Views of the Constitution, Tyranny Unmasked

18. Harlan Ellison

    Author of Deathbird Stories, Approaching Oblivion, Partners in Wonder

19. Ramsey Campbell

    Author of The Parasite, The Influence, Demons by Daylight

20. Alexander Hamilton

    Author of The Federalist Papers, PACIFICUS-HELVIDIUS DEBATES OF 1793-1794, THE