Statesman as Thinker

In The Statesman as Thinker, Daniel J. Mahoney provides thoughtful and elegant portraits of statesmen who struggled to  preserve  freedom  during  times of crisis: Cicero using  all the powers of rhetoric to preserve republican liberty in Rome against Caesar’s encroaching autocracy; Burke defending ordered liberty  against  Jacobin  tyranny in revolutionary France; Tocqueville  defending liberty a...