Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Prelude 1
6. 1. Who Is Leo Strauss? What Is a Straussian? 5
7. 2. The Lion and the Ass 21
8. 3. Decline into the West 35
9. 4. Closing the American Mind 57
10. 5. Getting the Natural Right 75
11. 6. Persecution and the Art of Writing 95
12. 7. Ancients and Moderns 109
13. 8 The Statesman 127
14. 9. On Tyranny 141
15. 10. Conservatism Abandoned 161
16. 11. The Sicilian Expedition 181
17. 12. Athens and Jerusalem 201
18. 13. The School of Baghdad 221
19. Index 229