This concise and accessible introduction to Strauss\'s thought provides, for wider audience, a bridge to his more complex theoretical work. Editor Pangle has gathered five of Strauss\'s previously unpublished lectures and five hard-to-find published writings and has arranged them so as to demonstrate the systematic progression of the major themes that underlay Strauss\'s mature work. \"[These essays] display the incomparable insight and remarkable range of knowledge that set Strauss\'s works apart from any other twentieth-century philosopher\'s.\"&;Charles R. Kesler, National Review