Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire - Norton, Anne (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004)
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.
Includes index.
Keywords: Strauss, Leo; Conservatism -- United States; Political science -- Philosophy; Political science -- History; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century