Mel Bradford
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| Alma mater | University of Oklahoma (BA, MA) Vanderbilt University (PhD) |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Literary movement | Southern Agrarians, paleoconservatism |
| Notable works | The Reactionary Imperative |
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Melvin E. Bradford (May 8, 1934 – March 3, 1993) was an American conservative author, political commentator and professor of literature at the University of Dallas.
Bradford is seen as a leading figure of the paleoconservative wing of the conservative movement. He died just as the term paleoconservative was being coined and preferred the term traditional conservative. In his preface to Reactionary Imperative, he wrote "Reaction is a necessary term in the intellectual context we inhabit in the twentieth century because merely to conserve is sometimes to perpetuate what is outrageous."
Bradford's conservatism was rooted within the heritage and traditions of the
Bradford was first and foremost a literary scholar and a student of
Bradford also frequently wrote for Modern Age, Chronicles magazine and Southern Partisan magazine.
Biography
Bradford was born in
In U.S. presidential elections Bradford campaigned for
He was for a time the president of the Philadelphia Society.[4]
He died in 1993 after undergoing
NEH Nomination
In 1980, Bradford was initially tapped by President-elect
A letter supporting Bradford's nomination, sent to President Reagan during the controversy, was signed by
Bibliography
- A Better Guide than Reason: Studies in the American Revolution (1979)
- Worthy Company: Brief Lives of the Framers of the Constitution (1982)
- Remembering Who We Are: Observations of a Southern Conservative (1985)
- The Reactionary Imperative: Essays Literary and Political (1989)
- From Eden to Babylon : The Social and Political Essays of Andrew Nelson Lytle (1990)
- Religion and the Framers: Biographical Evidence (1991)
- Original Intentions: On the making and ratification of the Constitution (1993)
- "A Fire Bell in the Night: The Southern Conservative View"
- "The Heresy of Equality"
- "On Remembering Who We Are"
- "Rhetoric and Respectability"
- "Dividing The House: The Gnosticism of Lincoln's Political Rhetoric"
Sources
- A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M.E. Bradford and his Achievements (1999) by ISBN 0826212085)
- "Culture Clash on the Right" by David Frum, Wall Street Journal, June 2, 1989
- "Southern Conservatism and its Discontents: Mel Bradford and the American Right" by John Langdale in Southern Character: Essays in Honor of Bertram Wyatt-Brown (ISBN 0813036909)
References
- ^ M. E. Bradford: Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Death Record
- ^ a b c d e f g h Gordon, David (2010-04-01) Southern Cross: The meaning of the Mel Bradford moment Archived 2010-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, The American Conservative
- ^ a b Michael M. Jordan, Bradford, M. E. Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, 03/10/10
- ^ "Presidents of the Philadelphia Society". Archived from the original on February 23, 2010. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ^ "Melvin Bradford, 58, Conservative Theorist". The New York Times. 9 March 1993.
- ^ Briefing, The New York Times, October 22, 1981.
- ^ "Melvin Bradford, 58, Conservative Theorist", The New York Times, March 9, 1993.
- ^ Scholar Chosen as Humanities Chief, The New York Times, November 14, 1981.
- S2CID 242603258.
- ^ "Bradford's Boosters", The Washington Post, October 20, 1981.
- ^ "The Amazing Endowment Scramble", The Washington Post, December 13, 1981.
External links
- Mel Bradford, Old Indian Fighters, and the NEH, by Thomas H. Landess. LewRockwell.com, April 25, 2003.
- Southern Cross: The meaning of the Mel Bradford moment, by David Gordon. The American Conservative, April 1, 2010.
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