I started my readings of his works with “The Birth of the Modern” in 1991. My mom wanted to buy me a book and insisted I name one and The Birth of the Modern had just come out. She complained that I read books that were too expensive, LOL.
I was hooked and have read a number of others with great appreciation. The left loves to ignore the great writers of the Conservative stripe: Russell Kirk, Thomas Sowell, Richard Weaver, and Paul Johnson fits right in there.
And Walker Percy.
Funny. I read this when it came out, was disappointed. Thought it too Euro-centric and boring.
When I started my new book, “A Patriot’s History of Globalism,” I re-read it for the chapter on the Congress of Vienna. Amazing. Yes, he can get really bogged down in lit an English intrigue, but his character studies are beyond description.