Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection begins with Addams's youthful Junior Class Oration on women as[...]

"Augustine has proven himself a valuable companion on Elshtain's journey, and many readers will find her a fascinating fellow traveler on journeys of their own". -- The New Oxford Review"Elshtain invites us to dispel our preconceptions and see Augustine for the magnificent and most benign force he i[...]

In this seminal work in the fields of political history and political theory, Jean Bethke Elshtain shows how the powerful notion of sovereignty--complete independence and self-government--has irrevocably sculpted contemporary notions of God, state and self. Elshtain examines the conceptual underpinn[...]