Bradley J BirzerBradley Joseph Francis Birzer is the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies and Professor of History, Hillsdale College. Co-founder of and Senior Contributor to The Imaginative Conservative, Birzer is the author of nine books, including the awar-winning, Russell Kirk: American Conservative, favorably reviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. His other books include J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth; Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson; American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton; Neil Peart: Cultural Repercussions; In Defense of Andrew Jackson; Beyond Tenebrae: Christian Humanism in the Twilight of the West; and Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film. Currently, he is working on an intellectual biography of sociologist Robert Nisbet, a book examining Ray Bradbury's imagination, as well as a 250th anniversary history of the Declaration of Independence. He and his wife, Dedra (also an academic and editor), have seven children, four cats, and one dog. They divide their time between Michigan and South Dakota.Bradley Joseph Francis Birzer is the Russell Amos Kirk Chair in American Studies and Professor of History, Hillsdale College. Co-founder of and Senior Contributor to The Imaginative Conservative, Birzer is the author of nine books, including the award-winning, Russell Kirk: American Conservative, favorably reviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. His other books include J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth; Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson; American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton; Neil Peart: Cultural Repercussions; In Defense of Andrew Jackson; Beyond Tenebrae: Christian Humanism in the Twilight of the West; and Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film. Currently, he is working on an intellectual biography of sociologist Robert Nisbet, a book examining Ray Bradbury's imagination, as well as a 250th anniversary history of the Declaration of Independence. He and his wife, Dedra (also an academic and editor), have seven children, four cats, and one dog. They divide their time between Michigan and South Dakota. Read More Read Less
