A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy

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Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught for more than fifty years. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. His books include Machiavelli's Virtue, Taming the Prince, America's Constitutional Soul, and The Spirit of Liberalism.