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Title: The essential Paul Elmer More; a selection of his writings by Paul Elmer More ISBN: 0-87000-162-0 Publisher: Arlington House Pub. Date: 1972 Format: Unknown Binding

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Beautiful Mind
Comment: The great American author, editor, statesman and scholar Walter Lippmann wrote the following about Paul Elmer More, "To read him is to enter an austere and elevated realm of ideas and to know a man who, in the guise of a critic, is authentically concerned with the first and last things of human experience." That is an assessment with which I wholeheartedly concur. I would add the following. In his preface to "Reflections on a Ravaged Century", historian Robert Conquest observed, "...the main responsibility for the century's disasters lies not so much in the problems as in the solutions, not in impersonal forces but in human beings thinking certain thoughts and as a result performing certain actions." At the close of the twentieth century Conquest looked back on the bad ideas and horrible consequences that plagued mankind in the form of evil ideologies such as Communism and National Socialism. At the dawn of the same century More looked at the same bad ideas and foresaw the horrible consequences. Conquest was reflective, More was prophetic. It is with sadness that I note More's works are now out of print, while at the beginning of the twenty-first century our academy is awash in the intellectual sewerage spewed forth by the likes of Foucault, Derrida, Rorty, Chomsky and Said. "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country".

Rating: 1
Summary: Hermit Scribblings
Comment: Russell Kirk said this guy was great, but after buying a whole set of these volumes and stuggling through them, it's only fair to report that More just isn't much of a writer. This is definitely not for everyone. Anyone want to buy my set? Let me know. You can have them cheap.