The first duty imposed on
those who now direct society is to educate democracy; to put, if possible,
new life into its beliefs; to purify its mores; to control its actions;
gradually to substitute understanding of statecraft for present inexperience
and knowledge of its true interests for blind instincts; to adapt
government to the needs of time and place; and to modify it as men
and circumstances require. A new political science is needed for a
world itself quite new.
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
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Barry Strauss
Barry Strauss grew up in and around New York City. He received bachelors, masters, and
doctoral degrees in History from Cornell and Yale. He has lived and studied in Greece,
Germany, and Israel, and has also taken part in archaeological excavations. He is the author of
six books, including The Battle of Salamis (Simon & Schuster, 2004), which was named one of
the Best Books of 2004 by the Washington Post, and The Trojan War: A New History (Simon &
Schuster, 2006), which was a main selection of the History Book Club. His most recent book is
The Spartacus War (Simon & Schuster, 2009).
