Now a distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute, Dr. Harry Jaffa majored in English at Yale, took his doctorate at the New School for Social Research, and studied with the legendary political philosopher Leo Strauss. In 1959, Dr. Jaffa published Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, and in 2000 he published the sequel, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War. Of Crisis of the House Divided, journalist Andrew Ferguson says it “is a book that will never die; a genuine landmark in American thought. It’s the greatest Lincoln book ever.” Of Dr. Jaffa, Yale political scientist Steven Smith says: He’s the “greatest living scholar of Lincoln’s political thought and Lincoln’s greatest defender, period.”