Wilmore Kendall

The Brothers Judd have a good review up of a very interesting book: Willmore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives.

Kendall was a key figure in the early years of National Review, a thinker of real substance, and an interesting man. Not many political theorists appear in stories by Nobel Laureates.

Saul Bellow, in "Mosby's Memoirs" describes Mosby/Kendall this way: "erudite, maybe even profound; thought much, accomplished much-- had made some of the most interesting mistakes a man could make in the twentieth century."