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[Harvard University Press @Harvard_Press]

“Harvey Mansfield is a Harvard treasure, a one-man antidote to liberal complacency.” – Michael J. Sandel

Which way, modern man?

Taught for decades to rapt classrooms, Harvey C. Mansfield’s legendary Harvard course on political philosophy has informed and influenced generations of public thought.

Now in his nineties, Mansfield captures the essence of his course in The Rise and Fall of Rational Control:

A history of the birth of modern political philosophy, beginning with Niccolò Machiavelli and the imperative to manipulate the brute facts of the world in service of interests—something he calls “rational control.”

Is it time to revisit reason?

Keep reading: https://t.co/qlZWi82840

“An unblinkingly courageous social commentator, Harvey Mansfield is a superb teacher who has fostered a generation of influential students.” – Francis Fukuyama

[Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan]

I have a new essay on the meaning of equality—before and after the Declaration of Independence—now out in The Atlantic!

Drawing on my forthcoming book for @Harvard_Press (and featuring the Levellers):

https://t.co/0erQ8t39rf

[Joe Holland @JoeHolland]

Good mail day.

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

25% off, guys. You know what to do.

[Harvard University Press @Harvard_Press]

@toddbgungoll @odysseymovie We Loeb to hear it.

[Harvard University Press @Harvard_Press]

Tell me, Muse, of the sale of many epics.

To celebrate the release of @odysseymovie, we're running an epic summer sale across our classics in translation series: https://t.co/Tg0vNbYjtG

Use the code EPICS at checkout to save 25% on the entire Loeb Classical Library—home of the man of many devices—as well as the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, the Murty Classical Library of India, and The I Tatti Renaissance Library.

Only a lotus-eater would sleep on this one...

[Harvard University Press @Harvard_Press]

Tell me, Muse, of the sale of many epics.

To celebrate the release of @odysseymovie, we're running an epic summer sale across our classics in translation series: https://t.co/Tg0vNbYjtG

Use the code EPICS at checkout to save 25% on the entire Loeb Classical Library—home of the man of many devices—as well as the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, the Murty Classical Library of India, and The I Tatti Renaissance Library.

Only a lotus-eater would sleep on this one...

[Epimenides @e_plutarchos]

I received something special today.

[Nick Holdstock @NickHoldstock]

I guess it's time to go back to the Quartet. Thanks to @Harvard_Press

[Jaycel Adkins 鍾書 @JaycelAdkins]

Not necessarily trying to rebuild Montaigne’s library, but gathering some of the key texts he utilizes most in the Essays: Plutarch, Seneca, Lucretius, Tacitus, etc.

Would be nice to use great thinkers as nodes in a library and then organize my shelves that way, we’ll see…

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Enzo Traverso reviews Emile Chabal’s new Hobsbawm biography in the latest issue of The Ideas Letter: https://t.co/4wXNEFhaIK

[Grǣġhama @grahamscheper]

Here’s what I settled on for the ongoing summer sale:

Cicero’s De Oratore, Mary Clayton’s edition of ten (underrated) Old English religious poems, and a series of letters on the use of Ciceronian diction, which I have never read.

Exciting stuff! @Harvard_Press

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

Readers ...

Do you leave the dust jacket on your books, or do you take them off?

[Sharmila Sen @_sen_sharmila]

Librarians lined up for hours to receive a signed advance reader copy of Dana Mashoian Walrath’s The Book of Genocides (coming this Sept from @Harvard_Press).

I overheard so many heartfelt conversations between Dana & her readers at the ALA conference this weekend.

[Sharmila Sen @_sen_sharmila]

Lots of Loeb love at the @SeminaryCoop in Chicago.
💚❤️

Our thanks to Kevin Bendle, the exec director of the iconic bookstore, for his generous hospitality and great stories.

We all want to live in the “maze of the mind” - the layout of the store as described by Kevin!

[Blair Kamin @BlairKamin]

What a blast to be at the American Library Association conference at McCormick Place this morning. So great to meet all the librarians who stopped by to get a signed copy of the new clothbound edition of “Gates of Harvard Yard.”

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

First sight of my new book!

[Harvard University Press @Harvard_Press]

@mcgillmd921 Excellent choices!🫡

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

I love Loebs!

@Harvard_Press is having a 25% off “Epic Summer Sale” on their classic series, including their Loeb Classical Library.

I had to snag a few to add to my library.

Here’s what I bought.

[Kirkus Reviews @KirkusReviews]

Read these books to delve deep into the complex, often frustrating, fascinating history of a country on the eve of its 250th birthday. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/NUtcJch0FQ

@AvidReaderPress @doubledaybooks @DiversionBooks @Harvard_Press @simonbooks @harperbooks @randomhouse @wwnorton

[Musa al-Gharbi @Musa_alGharbi]

And for folks interested in the broad themes explored in this series, I'd recommend a forthcoming book by @tmbejan with @Harvard_Press, First Among Equals.

That book will explore how a longstanding and widely held belief that all people are fundamentally equal (even if they differ in many respects) came to eventually be attached to a set of political demands (around representation) and, later, economic demands (around redistribution).

More here: https://t.co/uDVHm9bTlB

[Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker]

You can now preorder the paperback of Make Your Own Job, with this gorgeous new cover!! https://t.co/6KapbQKj16