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Oxford Years: The Letters of Willmoore Kendall to His Father, edited by Yvona Kendall Mason (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Bryn Maur, Pa., 527 pp., $14.95)

READERS of the early issues of national review will instantly recognize the name of Will-moore Kendall. A brilliant political theorist and platform debater, an editor of NR from its founding until 1963, a mentor of William F. Buckley Jr. at Yale, Professor Kendall became one of the pre-eminent conservative intellectuals of the mid twentieth century. Argumentative, even quarrelsome, he often exasperated friend and foe alike, all the while turning out some of the most provocative political science writings of his time.

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George H. Nash

George H. Nash, a historian and lecturer, is the author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 and several volumes about the life of Herbert Hoover.

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Oxford Years: The Letters of Willmoore Kendall to His Father, edited by Yvona Kendall Mason (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Bryn Maur, Pa., 527 pp., $14.95)

READERS of the early issues of national review will instantly recognize the name of Will-moore Kendall. A brilliant political theorist and platform debater, an editor of NR from its founding until 1963, a mentor of William F. Buckley Jr. at Yale, Professor Kendall became one of the pre-eminent conservative intellectuals of the mid twentieth century. Argumentative, even quarrelsome, he often exasperated friend and foe alike, all the while turning out some of the most provocative political science writings of his time.

GH

About the Author

George H. Nash

George H. Nash, a historian and lecturer, is the author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 and several volumes about the life of Herbert Hoover.