Anderson makes a good case for Aron's subtlety and intelligence. . . and deserves high praise for explicating and elucidating [Aron's] message with impressive analysis and textual fidelity.

Sanford Lakoff, The Review of Politics

Writing with great clarity of style from a stance of interpretive charity, Anderson helps us to sort out Aron's enormous oeuvre. There is much more to recommend in this densely packed, lucid volume. Anderson's effort to bring the attention of our political theorists back to Aron is worthy of our thanks.

Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Laura Spelman Rockeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; author of Just War Against Terror, First Things

A compelling examination of Aron's contributions to political theory and practice.

Microsoft Network's Reading Forum

Brian Anderson's insightful book on Raymond Aron deserves a wide audience. According to Anderson, modern liberal theory lacks an understanding of politics, but a corrective is to be found in Aron's 'conservative liberalism.' An exceptional analysis, and much needed.

Adam Wolfson, Executive Editor, The Public Interest

One of the great contributions of Brian Anderson's book is to highlight the role of political reason-related to Aristotle's practical wisdom-in the work of Aron. A splendid book, of elegance and distinction.

Michael Novak, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, 1994 Templeton laureate

Brian Anderson's elegant book wonderfully captures Aron's recovery of the political as an independent realm of thought and action. One of its great strengths is the way it places Aron's work in fruitful dialogue with other important twentieth-century political thinkers such as Isaiah Berlin, F. A. Hayek, John Rawls, and Leo Strauss. Anderson shows that if political theorists wish to take politics seriously, they must fully confront the work of Aron.

Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption College