ABSTRACT
Voegelin’s first American home was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he held a one-year appointment as tutor and instructor at Harvard. Voegelin determined that he did not want to be submerged in this refugee subculture but to make the break with Europe radical: he wanted to become an American and a political scientist not stigmatized as a member of a refugee group. With customary energy Voegelin worked his way into the mysteries of American government, the Constitution, and even into a certain amount of public administration in addition to giving the course on the history of political theory. Voegelin continued to write and publish in his new American environments, bringing out several important essays on national socialism such as “Extended Strategy: A New Technique of Dynamic Relations” and “The Growth of the Race Idea” in 1940, “Some Problems of German Hegemony” in 1941, and “Nietzsche, the Crisis and the War” in 1944.
