Harry V. Jaffa

Dr. Jaffa is a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute. Before his retirement he was Henry Salvatori Research Professor of Political Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University. His essay on King Lear is in Bloom’s Shakespeare as Political Thinker (1964). Jaffa’s books include Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Doubleday, 1959); Liberty and Equality: Theory and Practice in American Politics (Oxford, 1965); The Conditions of Freedom: Essays in Political Philosophy (Johns Hopkins, 1975); How to Think about the American Revolution (Carolina Academic Press, 1978); American Conservatism and the American Founding (Carolina Academic Press, 1984); and Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question (Regnery, 1994). His most recent book is A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, vol. 1: Why the War Came (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).