John A. Murley is Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the coeditor of the two-volume Essays in Law and Philosophy: On The Practice of Theory (1992) and Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999). John E. Alvis is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at the University of Dallas. He is the author of a number of works including Divine Purpose and Heroic Response in Homer and Virgil: The Political Plan of Zeus (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995).

• Part 1 ForewordPart 2 PrefaceChapter 3 The Place of Willmoore Kendall in American ConservatismChapter 4 Willmoore Kendall and the Doctrine of Majority RuleChapter 5 The Evolution of Willmoore Kendall's Political ThoughtChapter 6 On the "Calhounism" of Willmoore KendallChapter 7 The Missing Passage of "The Vanderbilt Lectures"Chapter 8 Willmoore Kendall and Leo StraussChapter 9 Willmoore Kendall—Leo Strauss CorrespondenceChapter 11 Ancients and Moderns

The essays in this book capture Willmoore Kendall's unique qualities as a teacher, scholar, and human being.