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Few names are more respected in the annals of modern political science than that of Leo Strauss, whose teachings from the textbooks of antiquity have raised up a numerous and influential group of followers in the American academy.

The qualities that commended Strauss to his disciples are amply displayed in The City and Man, originally published in hardcover by the University of Virginia and now brought out in paperback by the University of Chicago (Phoenix Books, $4.95). In this series of ruminative lectures on Aristotle, Plato, Thucydides, and the disorders of Athenian democracy, Strauss exhibits his prodigious learning, minute familiarity with the material, and awesome subtlety in revolving his subject like a beryl to catch ineffable glints of meaning.

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Few names are more respected in the annals of modern political science than that of Leo Strauss, whose teachings from the textbooks of antiquity have raised up a numerous and influential group of followers in the American academy.

The qualities that commended Strauss to his disciples are amply displayed in The City and Man, originally published in hardcover by the University of Virginia and now brought out in paperback by the University of Chicago (Phoenix Books, $4.95). In this series of ruminative lectures on Aristotle, Plato, Thucydides, and the disorders of Athenian democracy, Strauss exhibits his prodigious learning, minute familiarity with the material, and awesome subtlety in revolving his subject like a beryl to catch ineffable glints of meaning.