About W. Wesley McDonald
Lived 1946 – 2014 (aged 68). W. Wesley McDonald was an American political scientist.
W. Wesley McDonald (June 11, 1946 – September 9, 2014 ) was a professor of political science at Elizabethtown College.
Career His most recent and notable work is Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology, published in 2004. The book explores the political and philosophical ideas of the conservative intellectual (and friend and mentor of McDonald) Russell Kirk and his impact on conservatism in the 1940s and 50s. McDonald has also written several articles on Kirk and 20th-century conservatism.
Degrees 1982 Ph.D., Catholic University of America 1969 M.A., Bowling Green State University 1968 B.A., Towson State University
Selected works Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology, University of Missouri Press 2004
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American political scientist (1946-2014)
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W. Wesley McDonald died on 9 September 2014.
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