Mary P. Nichols, Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, has written extensively on classical political theory and the history of political thought, including Socrates and the Political Community: An Ancient Debate (SUNY Press, 1987).

• The origins of the city (Books I & II); finding a place for Beast and God (Book III); turning regimes into polities (Books IV, V, and VI); the best regime and the limits of politics (Books VII and VIII); citizens, statesmen, and modern political theory.

Well worth study and reflection both as a fresh interpretation of the ^RPolitics^I and as a critical assessment of contemporary scholarship on Aristotle and modern political theory.