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Article: Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding.
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- National Review
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- July 8, 1988
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Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding, edited by Charles R. Kesler (Free Press, 300 pp., $29.95)
STRAUSSIANS TO THE RESCUE George Carey
IN THE 1950s, students of the late Professor Leo Strauss began to turn their attention to discovering and elucidating the principles undergirding the American political order. Saving the Revolution is the most recent of the works proceeding from this deveolopment. It comprises 14 essays -- most of them written by second-and third-generation "Straussians" -- which, in the main, focus on the central teachings of The Federalist.
Virtually all Straussians regard the Declaration of ...