The first major piece of unpublished work by Leo Strauss to appear in
more than thirty years, this volume offers the public the unprecedented
experience of encountering this renowned scholar as his students did.
Given as a course in autumn 1959 under the title "Plato's Political
Philosophy," these provocative lectures--until now, never published, but
instead passed down from one generation of students to the next--show
Strauss at his subtle and insightful best.