Prophetic Statesmanship: Harry Jaffa, Abraham Lincoln, and the Gettysburg Address
By (Author) Edward J. Erler
Encounter Books,USA
Encounter Books,USA
12th November 2025
United States
General
Non Fiction
Hardback
248
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
A continuation of Harry Jaffa's New Birth of Freedom (2000) which takes into account the latest developments in his political philosophy as they bear on the interpretation of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural.
Edward Erler is professor emeritus of political science at California State University, San Bernardino and Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He is the author, most recently, of The United States in Crisis: Citizenship, Immigration, and the Nation State (Encounter: 2022); Property and the Pursuit of Happiness (Rowman & Littlefield: 2019); editor (with Ken Masugi) of The Rediscovery of America: Essays by Harry V. Jaffa on the New Birth of Politics (Rowman & Littlefield: 2019). Professor Erler has publisher numerous articles in professional journals and law reviews and served on the California Advisory Commission on Civil Rights.