In 1967, Pepperdine College commissioned the historian and conservative man of letters Russell Kirk to write a history textbook for the southern California Christian college. The result, seven years later, was a book entitled The Roots of American Order.
Roots is one of those books that the reader can reopen and cherish from time to time throughout a lifetime, and I recently reopened my copy of Roots for the first time in years (I owe a debt to Professor Bradley Birzer for first introducing it to me when I was an undergraduate at Hillsdale College). It turns out the book is 50 years old in 2024, and it is worthy of consideration in our time just as it was when it first appeared.
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