As Far as Republican Principles Will Admit: Essays by Martin Diamond. (book reviews)

This book brings together - and makes clear - the two remarkable ways Martin Diamond contributed to the political science profession, broadly understood. First, he played a major role in the reassessment of the nature and ideology of the American founding that began in the 1940s and 1950s with the work of Douglas Adair, Leo Strauss, Stuart Gerry Brown, Perry Miller, and others who taught us again how to take ideas, especially political ideas, seriously. Second, Diamond also took seriously - and performed with the utmost distinction - the craft of college teaching in a way that ...