WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 7, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Intercollegiate Studies Institute today announced that historian Bradley J. Birzer will receive this year's Henry and Anne Paolucci Book Award for his biography Russell Kirk: American Conservative. The award recognizes the best conservative book published in 2015.
A distinguished panel of judges selected Dr. Birzer's masterful biography from among sixty nominees. Russell Kirk: American Conservative (University Press of Kentucky) sheds new light on the author of the seminal 1953 book The Conservative Mind and his profound influence on modern conservative thought. The Wall Street Journal hails Russell Kirk as "beautifully written and deeply insightful"; National Review calls it "splendid and exhaustively researched"; the Claremont Review of Books proclaims it "the definitive book about this important, fascinating, and good man."
Dr. Birzer will accept the award and a $5,000 cash prize at ISI's Paolucci Book Award dinner in Philadelphia on Saturday, October 1. As the dinner's keynote speaker, he will offer new insights on Russell Kirk based on his extensive archival research. Dr. Birzer is professor of history at Hillsdale College and the author of several other books. He has also served as the Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought at the University of Colorado.
- For more details on the Paolucci Book Award or to reserve your seat at the October 1 dinner, visit paolucci.isi.org
This prestigious annual award is named in memory of the distinguished scholars Henry and Anne Paolucci. Recent winners of the Paolucci Book Award include Richard Brookhiser for Founders' Son, Daniel Hannan for Inventing Freedom, and Brad S. Gregory for The Unintended Reformation.
The panel of judges who selected the Paolucci Book Award winner includes: Amity Shlaes, author of Coolidge and The Forgotten Man; Angelo M. Codevilla, author of Advice to War Presidents (winner of the 2010 Paolucci Book Award); Serphin Maltese, former chairman of the Conservative Party of New York; Clara Sarrocco, executive director of the Council on National Literatures; Matthew A. Pauley, chair of political science and legal studies at Manhattanville College; and Ronald F. Docksai, president of the Walter Bagehot Council.
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