Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire /
Anne Norton.
- xiv, 235 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
Who is Leo Strauss? what is a Straussian? -- The lion and the ass -- Decline into the west -- Closing the American mind -- Getting the natural right -- Persecution and the art of writing -- Ancients and moderns -- The statesman -- On tyranny -- Conservatism abandoned -- The Sicilian expedition -- Athens and Jerusalem -- The School of Baghdad.
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Strauss, Leo.
Conservatism--United States. Political science--Philosophy. Political science--History.