I am deeply honored to have won this year’s Paolucci Prize from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.  Overwhelmed might be a better work than honored!  Well, both, actually.  Thank you, ISI, and thank you, Russell Kirk!

Here are the past winners:

2015: Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

2014: Daniel Hannan, Inventing Freedom

2013: Brad S. Gregory, The Unintended Reformation

2012: John Fonte, Sovereignty or Submission

2011: Pauline Maier, Ratification

2010: Angelo M. Codevilla, Advice to War Presidents

2009: Philip Hamburger, Law and Judicial Duty

2008: Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

2007: Andrew Roberts, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900

2006: William Daugherty, Executive Secrets

For more information on the Paolucci Award, please go here: https://home.isi.org/professors/paolucci-book-award

To order, RUSSELL KIRK: AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE, please go here: https://www.amazon.com/Russell-Kirk-Conservative-Bradley-Birzer/dp/0813166187/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472419971&sr=1-1&keywords=russell+kirk+american+conservative