Scholarship of Desperation by Bernard W. Wishy Orestes Brownson, Selected Essays. Edited with an Introduction by Russell Kirk. Regnery (Gateway Editions). 221 pp. $.95. Even before 1939, when Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. published his biography, there had been a small continuing interest, particularly among Catholic intellectuals, in Orestes Brownson (1803-1876), the...
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