ABSTRACT
In January 1949, having published his book on Xenophon and his essay on how to read Spinoza the previous year, Leo Strauss moved from the New School for Social Research in New York City to the University of Chicago. He wrote to Alexandre Kojève the following May and mentioned the move, noting that he had gone as “Professor of Political Philosophy,” putting the title in quotation marks.1 That same year, he delivered the Charles R. Walgreen Foundation Lectures at the same university. These provided the basis for Natural Right and History, published in 1952, ostensibly dealing with American values.2
