Books written by Harry V. Jaffa
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Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West
The collection includes an important original essay, published here for the first time, “Straussian Geography: A Memoir and Commentary.”
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (with New Foreword)
The refrain goes: And this is law, I will maintain, Unto my dying day, sir, That whatsoever king shall reign, I will be Vicar of Bray, sir! Becker's belief in the relativism of all moral and political truth rests upon the assumption ...
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War
27. Lincoln , Speech in U.S. House of Representatives , January 12 , 1848 , Collected Works , vol . I , p . 438 . ... John Wilkes Booth , when he leaped onto the stage of Ford's Theatre , cried out " Sic semper tyrannis , " which was ...
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American Conservatism and the American Founding
American Conservatism and the American Founding
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War
This book represents the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by Jaffa, and continues his piercing examination of the political thought of Abraham Lincoln.
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates : with a New Preface
Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
This definitive analysis of the Lincoln-Douglas debates is “one of the most influential works of American history and political philosophy ever published (National Review).
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Storm Over the Constitution
Written by one of America's foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of the doctrine of 'original intent.' According...
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Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question
Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question is a unique contribution to the debate, begun by Attorney General Edwin Meese in the second Reagan administration, over...
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Shakespeare's Politics
But the very terribleness which so moves us teaches us, albeit unconsciously, that this is not just another love story, that there is here an inevitability we wish not to face, one we hide in our condemnation of Iago.
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Statesmanship: Essays in Honor of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Statesmanship: Essays in Honor of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill