Steven F. Hayward has published a biography of M. Stanton Evans, a major figure in American conservatism. He was a thinker, a writer, an educator, an activist, and, not least, a journalist. In an age of liberal dominance, he was a media critic who did not lack for targets. Today, with the passage of generations, he is not very well known. With M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom, Hayward hopes to change that. It is an excellent book, full of information and compelling analysis, well written, too.
Born in 1934 in Kingsville, Texas, Evans was named for his father, Medford Bryan Evans, a Texan, and his mother, Josephine Stanton, who was from Mississippi. Medford taught English literature at the Texas College of Arts and Industry (now Texas A&M), and Josephine taught the classics in public schools where opportunities to do so availed. It would be an understatement to say Stan had an academically strong set of parents.
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