russell kirk for 1918 into extreme poverty and something he experienceded during the first 35 years of his life to varying degrees. viet he was always bookish and became interested with the stories that he believedki he believed those collected works certainly no doubt there was a certain geniuss 11 d with a very unusual youngin man. he ended up going to michigan state and served in the military for five years when he came back he got his graduate degree at scottish university of st. andrewsarned t and strangely enough that dissertation became a million copies best seller the timing was just right and hit the market and going through seven editions over its lifetime. there were a number of disparate voices and libertarian battle all number of voices that kirk's book that allowed something forf right ck at the korean war. with the barry goldwater movement also a reagan movement. >> and help to coalesce and what is interesting and the conservative mind comes out it is very different to offer shorthand for political thought at this point or on the opposite extremes we have entrenched term

today's day of lit vest and it is my great pressure to welcome bradley birzer who is the author of "russell kirk: american conservative." bradley is the russell amos clerk chair and a professor of history at hillsdale college. he came over from south central michigan and is here to talk about his book about russell clerk. one of the first questions tr lots of people is who is russell clerk? the man-is not not known much these days or invoked. brad, your book does many things but helps as a marvelous and bracing introduction or reduction to russell clerk. please before starting give us an overview of this man. >> russell clerk was born in 1918 in plymouth michigan born into extreme poverty. he was very bookish and became interested in all kinds of things if the stories are to believe he read the work of carl marx and thomas jefferson by 11. he read all of cooper and there was a certain genius to this very, very unusual young man in plymouth. he went to michigan state and aft afterwards she served in the military -- he. when he came back from military experience, he got his d-lit at a scottish uni

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kirk's friend says, do you not understand this is russell kirk, this is the duke of macosta. tiny little 600-person village in michigan and they let him in. this is kirk. >> macosta was his home and rebuilt his home in a rather grand matter. >> this is another story about kirk that we don't forget. if you do, i would ask the one thing to take away that i think is so brilliant about kirk and i ended the book about this, if i start with this no one will believe it. kirk did make millions of dollars during lifetime not only books but fiction, most people who know horror fiction he wrote gothic stories, most people who read conservative didn't know he was a fiction writer. when he died he was basically broke. he gave everything away. he and his wife use to drive to grand rapids. anybody that we wanted to come from -- anyone escaping escaping from communism and fascism he opened their house to them. the daughters, would wake up every morning and never knew who would be at breakfast with them. at the time vietnamese, one of my colleagues, one of my closest friends economist by the n

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i'm choosing kirk russell over kevin costner. >> thom: doc holiday. >> charles: the rams next which is a game i will be attending. rams look like they are going to finish off seattle. >> thom: seattle had the ball down at the rams' 30 yard line with 1:50 left. ball recovered and trying to win the home opener. big return by humphries run out of bounds. let's talk about the buccaneers. you are going to be next weekend. tampa bay. they will have back-to-back home games and the defending super bowl champs come in. this is a tough stretch. >> charles: this is what they need. you know how arizona can learn off of last week's game. everybody loves the buccaneers. they were talking mvp. >> thom: full effect last week in that area. guess what, this is probably you team. gets to dirk koetter and his staff. tampa down a little bit. nice matchup from los angeles next week. los angeles the defense. navigate that and i don't get very many right but i have to say that i told you at dinner. there is one thing i was defendant about, l.a. was going match for seattle for whatever reason and they did it.

. >> so does bob oden kirk, if the emmy nod for breaking bad goes to its spin off, better call saul. >>> i would keep an eye on kerry russell. i think she good bet for the americans. i definitely give julia of veep winner for the movie brashish. >>> the ceremony, we will be liveet whole thing, so you can follow us at wfla. >>> we had sea breeze, showers, and storms developing, pushing inland this afternoon. had a little rain at crystal river, about 25/10 of an inch. the temperature just 83 degrees. a few clouds around. still tracking some of those thunderstorms in inland spots this evening, is though. do have a shower there, though, the even part of citrus county. but the bulk of the activity is across polk county here. bartow seeing some leaguely heavy rain there, some more showers down towards frost proof. little cloud-to-ground lightning with that. and then into parts of hardy, later showers, and a turn there right between avon park at sebring of the northern part of irans correspondent. over the next couple of hour, be the bulk of this activity will start to wrap up in inland spots. by 11:00, we should be mostly dry, pa