Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Jr. (born 1932) is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1962. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center; he also received the National Humanities Medal in 2004 and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007. He is a Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is notable for his generally conservative stance on political issues in his writings. Mansfield is the author and co-translator of studies of and/or by major political philosophers such as Aristotle, Edmund Burke, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Thomas Hobbes, of Constitutional government, and of Manliness (2006). In interviews Mansfield has acknowledged the work of Leo Strauss as the key modern influence on his own political philosophy.[1] Among his most notable former students include: Andrew Sullivan,[2] Alan Keyes, William Kristol,[3] Clifford Orwin, Paul Cantor, Delba Winthrop, Mark Lilla, Francis Fukuyama, and Shen Tong. Books Statesmanship and Party Government: A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965. The Spirit of Liberalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978. Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979. Rpt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Thomas Jefferson: Selected Writings. Ed. and introd. Wheeling, IL: H. Davidson, 1979. Selected Letters of Edmund Burke. Ed. with introd. entitled "Burke's Theory of Political Practice". Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli. Trans. and introd. 2nd (corr.) ed. 1985; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. (Inc. glossary.) Florentine Histories, by Niccolò Machiavelli. Ed., trans. and introd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. (Co-trans. and co-ed., Laura F. Banfield.) Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power. New York: The Free Press, 1989. America's Constitutional Soul. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Machiavelli’s Virtue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Discourses on Livy, by Niccolò Machiavelli. Trans. and introd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. (Co-trans., Nathan Tarcov.) Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville. Trans. and introd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. (Co-trans., Delba Winthrop.) A Student’s Guide to Political Philosophy. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2001. Manliness. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mansfield

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