Thomism and Aristotelianism

Jaffa, Harry V. Thomism and Aristotelianism: A Study of the Commentary by Thomas Aquinas on the Nicomachean Ethics. Whitefish, MT: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011.​

This edition is a reprint of the original 1952 publication by the University of Chicago Press. ​

Summary from Publisher: Dubbed a “minor classic” by Alasdair MacIntyre, Jaffa’s Thomism and Aristotelianism, that grew out of his doctoral dissertation, analyzes Thomas’ interpretation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The problem to be examined is how Aristotle’s “pagan”… More

Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. 50th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.​

This edition includes a new introduction by the author to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the original 1959 publication.

Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry into politics in 1854 through his Senate campaign against… More

Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics

New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Summary from the Publisher: This is the first of four books by Harry V. Jaffa reprinted by the Claremont Institute in honor of his 80th birthday. This book was originally published by Oxford University Press in 1965. The Claremont edition adds an index and a new introduction by… More

The Conditions of Freedom: Essays in Political Philosophy

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Summary from the Publisher: This volume represents the second in a series. In 1999, in commemoration of Professor Harry V. Jaffa’s 80th birthday, the Claremont Institute began to re-issue four of his out-of-print books. The present volume, originally published by Johns Hopkins… More

How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Cerebration

Jaffa, Harry V. How to Think About the American Revolution: A Bicentennial Celebration. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1978.

Summary from the Publisher: This volume represents the third in a series. In 1999, in commemoration of Professor Harry V. Jaffa’s 80th birthday, the Claremont Institute began to re-issue Jaffa’s out-of-print books. The present volume, originally published by Carolina Academic… More

Statesmanship: Essays in Honor of Sir Winston S. Churchill

Editor, Studies in Statesmanship of the Winston S. Churchill Association, Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1982.

Table of Contents: Introduction: On the Necessity of a Scholarship of the Politics of Freedom / Harry V. Jaffa 1. In Search of Churchill’s Character / Martin Gilbert 2. Can There Be Another Winston Churchill? / Harry V. Jaffa 3. On War and Legitimacy in Shakespeare’s Henry V /… More

American Conservatism and the American Founding

Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1984.

Summary from the Publisher: This book is the fourth in a series (including Equality and Liberty, The Conditions of Freedom, and How to Think About the American Revolution) of reprinted works by Harry V. Jaffa, printed in commemoration of the author’s 80th birthday. Each of the four… More

Natural Right and Political Right: Essays in Honor of Harry V. Jaffa

Thomas B. Silver and Peter W. Schramm, Durham:  Carolina Academic Press, 1984.

Table of Contents: Introduction 1. Dante and the Rediscovery of Political Philosophy by Ernest L. Fortin 2. Jefferson and the Practice of Empire by David Tucker 3. Elements of Ancient and Modern Harmony by John Adams Wettergreen 4. The Great Machiavellian Deed? Reconsideration of… More

Original Intent & the Framers of the Constitution

Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1994.

Summary from the Publisher: Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question is a unique contribution to the debate, begun by Attorney General Edwin Meese in the second Reagan administration, over the “original intentions of the Framers.” Professor… More

Shakespeare’s Politics

Ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Alan Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Summary from the Publisher: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man’s consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. He aims to recover Shakespeare’s ideas and beliefs and to make his work once again a… More

Storm Over the Constitution

Lanham: Lexington Books, 1999.

Summary from the Publisher: Written by one of America’s foremost political and legal theorists, Storm Over the Constitution examines the arguments of some of the leading proponents of the doctrine of ‘original intent.’ According to legal scholars such as Judge Robert… More

A New Birth of Freedom

Jaffa, Harry V. A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. With a new foreword by Allen C. Guelzo. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.​

Summary from the Publisher: A New Birth of Freedom is the culmination of over a half a century of study and reflection by one of America’s foremost scholars of American politics, Harry V. Jaffa. This long-awaited sequel to Crisis of the House Divided, first published in 1959,… More

Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West

Jaffa, Harry V. Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012

Summary from the Publisher: Crisis of the Strauss Divided brings together a collection of Jaffa’s published arguments defending and explaining that judgment, written during the 40 years since Strauss’s death. The volume includes arguments of those who have disagreed with Jaffa about… More