Mark Blitz is Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy, chair of the Department of Government, and the director of research at Claremont McKenna College. William Kristol is editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard.

Buy this book. The volume contains an introduction by Kristol and 21 impressive and provocative essays. The book also contains a bibliography of Mansfield's writtings, which alone would have made it worth the price. Any Scrapbook student who fails to grab a copy gets an automatic C-minus grade.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Machiavellianism and Its AlternativesChapter 3 Virtue, Modern and AncientChapter 4 How a Liberal Picks a Fight: Marsilius of Padua and the Singular Case of StrifeChapter 5 Machiavelli and the Foundations of Modernity: A Reading of Chapter 3 ofThe PrinceChapter 6 Necessity, Morality, ChristianityChapter 7 Metaphysics and Religion: Francis Bacon's Critique of the AncientsChapter 8 "Christian Kings" and "English Mercuies":Henry V and the classical tradition of ManlinessPart 9 The Liberal RegimeChapter 10 "Hobbes", "Socinus", Spinoza": Esotericism and the Atheist State in Pierre Bayle'sHistorical and Critical DictionaryChapter 11 Rousseau, Nationalism, and the Politics of Sympathetic IdentificationChapter 12 Kantian IdealismChapter 13 Political Philosophy and the Religious Issue: From the Ancient Regime to Modern CapitalismPart 14 America, Constitutionalism, and StatesmanshipChapter 15 Things Which Independent States May of RIght DoChapter 16 The Common Law Spirit of the American RevolutionChapter 17 The Federalist's Unmixed Republican GovernmentChapter 18 Responsibility inThe FederalistChapter 19 Abraham Lincoln and the Spirit of American StatesmanshipChapter 20 Constitutional BureaucracyChapter 21 Separation of Powers and Contemporary Politics: The Case of the Telecommunications Act of 1996Chapter 22 The Care of Souls in a Constitutional Deocracy: Some Lessons from Harvey Mansfiled and Alexander SolzhenitsynChapter 23 Churchill's Understanding of PoliticsChapter 24 Publications by Harvey C. Mansfield