Melvin E. “Mel” Bradford (May 8, 1934 – March 3, 1993) was a conservative political commentator and Professor of Literature at the University of Dallas. He was the author of “A Better Guide than Reason: Federalists and Anti-Federalists”, “Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the Constitution”, “Founding Fathers: Brief Life of the Framers of the Constitution”, and “The Reactionary Imperative: Essays Literary & Political.”
Calhoun: The Oracle of the South
The Essential Calhoun: Selections from Writings, Speeches, and Letters. Edited with an Introduction by Clyde Wilson. Foreword by Russell Kirk. The contemporary academic interpretation of John Caldwell Calhoun is like the contemporary academic response to anything and anyone thoroughly and unmistakably Southern: a politically correct caricature, both as to motives and with regard to the meaning of [...]