In this course we will examine and discuss Crisis and New Birth as fully and as deeply as we can, aiming to understand how (or whether) their parts fit together in a coherent whole and what is their enduring contribution to our understanding of politics. These two volumes by Harry V. Jaffa on the political philosophy of Abraham Lincoln are achievements of American scholarly statesmanship rising to the level of Lincoln's own political statesmanship. In this course we will examine and discuss Crisis and New Birth as fully and as deeply we can, aiming to understand how (or whether) their parts fit together in a coherent whole and what is their enduring contribution to our understanding of politics.
Instructor: Christopher Flannery is Professor of Politics at Azusa Pacific University and the Louaine S. Taylor Professor of American History & Government at Ashland University. He is Senior Editor of The Claremont Review of Books and has written on the liberal arts and American political thought.