Russell Kirk (1918-1994) is considered the father of the postwar conservative intellectual movement. His many books include The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana (1953), Eliot and his Age: T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century (1972), The Roots of American Order (1974), and Sword of the Imagination: Memoirs of a Half Century of Literary Conflict (1995).