Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are two of the most provocative and durable political philosophers of this century.
Since the appearance in the 1950s of Strauss\'s Natural Right and History and Voegelin\'s Order and History, conservatives like Russell Kirk, Irving Kristol, and Allan Bloom have increasingly turned to these thinke.
Ted McAllister\'s superbly written study provides the first comprehensive comparison of their thought and its profound influence on contemporary American conservatism.
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are two of the most provocative and durable political philosophers of this century