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Title: Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics by Harry V. Jaffa ISBN: 0-930783-03-4 Publisher: The Claremont Institute Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Well-rounded collection
Comment: This is a nice collection of essays from one of the country's leading political philosphers of a conservative bent. The essays date back from many years ago, but they are still timely to those interested in the subject matter. Particularly well done and interesting are Jaffa's writings on natural law, a theme that has been at the center of the author's work throughout his career, and civil liberty. This book is well worth the investment.

Rating: 5
Summary: Understanding America
Comment: The author, Professor Harry Jaffa, may be best known as a scholar of Abraham Lincoln (Jaffa's Crisis of the House Divided, written in 1959, is a classic) and indeed the central chapters are on Lincoln and the Civil War. A political philospher rather than a historian, Jaffa's almost unique contribution is a profound and probing appreciation for Lincoln as a both skilled politician and profound thinker. Jaffa emphasizes Lincoln's debt to--and vindication of--the American Founding as expressed particularly in the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration, for Lincoln as for Jaffa, is the touchstone of American greatness--the "apple of gold" of which the Constitution is "the frame of silver." As the title indicates, and contrary to much contemporary opinion, Jaffa defends the centrality of equality (of opportunity) as essential to liberty. Properly understood, Jaffa argues, each re-enforces and supplies the ground for the other. Several other essays in the book expand on Jaffa's subtle, wide-ranging and always compelling defense of the American political tradition. The index and new introduction for this edition are helpful additions.