Educating the Prince

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.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Machiavellianism and Its Alternatives Chapter 3 Virtue, Modern and Ancient Chapter 4 How a Liberal Picks a Fight: Marsilius of Padua and the Singular Case of Strife Chapter 5 Machiavelli and the Foundations of Modernity: A Reading of Chapter 3 ofThe Prince Chapter 6 Necessity, Morality, Christianity Chapter 7 Metaphysics and Religion: Francis Bacon's Critique of the Ancients Chapter 8 "Christian Kings" and "English Mercuies":Henry V and the classical tradition of Manliness Part 9 The Liberal Regime Chapter 10 "Hobbes", "Socinus", Spinoza": Esotericism and the Atheist State in Pierre Bayle'sHistorical and Critical Dictionary Chapter 11 Rousseau, Nationalism, and the Politics of Sympathetic Identification Chapter 12 Kantian Idealism Chapter 13 Political Philosophy and the Religious Issue: From the Ancient Regime to Modern Capitalism Part 14 America, Constitutionalism, and Statesmanship Chapter 15 Things Which Independent States May of RIght Do Chapter 16 The Common Law Spirit of the American Revolution Chapter 17 The Federalist's Unmixed Republican Government Chapter 18 Responsibility inThe Federalist Chapter 19 Abraham Lincoln and the Spirit of American Statesmanship Chapter 20 Constitutional Bureaucracy Chapter 21 Separation of Powers and Contemporary Politics: The Case of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Chapter 22 The Care of Souls in a Constitutional Deocracy: Some Lessons from Harvey Mansfiled and Alexander Solzhenitsyn Chapter 23 Churchill's Understanding of Politics Chapter 24 Publications by Harvey C. Mansfield

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.