ROP volume 65 issue 4 Cover and Front matter THE REVIEW OF POLITICS Bin Laden as a Civilizational Revolutionary Robert S. Snyder Vietnam: Johnson's of Eisenhower's War? Edward Cuddy The Intention of Cicero's De Officiis Douglas Kries Marsiglio on Civil Life and Private Advantage Cary f. Nederman Review Essays: Coming to Terms with Slavery with David Brion Davis Jean Bethke Elshtain Disagreement Among Constitutional Theorists Kenneth D. Ward Book reviewers include— Russell Hittinger on Hadley Arkes Shaun Young on George Klosko Keir Lieber on Maja Zehfuss J. Budziszewski on Peter Lawler Fall, 2003 h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 00 03 90 48 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :1 2: 26 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500039048 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms THE REVIEW OF POLITICS Editor WALTER NICGORSKI Managing Editor DENNIS WM MORAN Book Review Editor PETER R. MOODY, JR. Assistant Book Review Editor James Paul Old Editorial Intern: Tim Dale Associate Editors Fred R. Dallmayr E. A. Goerner Thomas Werge Philip Gleason Alasdair Maclntyre Catherine Zuckert Former Editors Waldemar Gurian M. A. Fitzsimons Frederick J. Crosson Thomas Stritch Donald P. Kommers Editorial Advisory Board Henry J. Abraham Mary Nichols University of Virginia Fordham University Charles W. Anderson Doris Marie Provine University of Wisconsin-Madison Arizona State University Shlomo Avineri Bruce M. Russett Hebrew University of Jerusalem Yale University Jean Bethke Elshtain Arlene Saxonhouse University of Chicago University of Michigan James T. Kloppenberg Steven B. Smith Harvard University Yale University Arend Lijphart Kenneth W. Thompson University of University of Virginia California-San Diego Glenn Tinder Harvey C. Mansfield University of Massachusetts- Harvard University Boston Wilson Carey Me Williams Jean M. Yarbrough Rutgers University Bowdoin College Administrative Assistant: Nancy Benjamin Production Managers: Andrea Laffey, Jonathan T. Morgan THE REVIEW OF POLITICS, without neglecting the analysis of institutions and techniques, is primarily interested in the philosophical and historical approach to politics. h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 00 03 90 48 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :1 2: 26 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500039048 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms THE REVIEW OF POLITICS Published Quarterly by the University of Notre Dame, Indiana Vol. 65 Fall 2003 No. 4 Robert S. Snyder Hating America: Bin Laden as a Civilizational Revolutionary 325 Edward Cuddy Vietnam: Mr. Johnson's War —Or Mr. Eisenhower's? 351 Douglas Kries On the Intention of Cicero's De Offwiis 375 Cary J. Nederman Community and Self-interest: Marsiglio of Padua on Civil Life and Private Advantage 395 Review Essays Jean Bethke Elshtain Coming to Terms with Slavery: David Brion Davis Sums Up 417 Kenneth D. Ward: The Politics of Disagreement: Recent Work in Constitutional Theory 425 Reviews: Russell Hittinger: NOT LEAVING WELL ENOUGH ALONE Review of Hadley Arkes's Natural Rights and the Right to Choose 441 Kevin R. den Dulk: DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T Review of Stephen P. Brown's Trumping Religion: The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts 443 Alain Epp Weaver: CONVERGENCE AND TENSION Review of William Werpehowski's American Protestant Ethics and the Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr 445 Randall C. Zachman: FAITH AND SCIENCE Review of Daniel J. Price's Karl Barth 's Anthropology in Light of Modern Thought 447 h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 00 03 90 48 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :1 2: 26 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500039048 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Steven G. Affeldt: THE POLITICAL EMERSON Review of Peter S. Field's Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual 450 Geoffrey C. Bowden: SAME BED, DIFFERENT DREAMS? Review of Nathan W. Schlueter's One Dream or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King Jr. 452 Paul V. Murphy: PERFORMATIVE NATIONALISM Review of Amy Bass's Not the Triumph but the Struggle: The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete 455 Shaun P. Young: HOW TO GET THERE Review of George Klosko's Jacobins and Utopians: The Political Theory of Fundamental Moral Reform 457 Christopher Colmo: EXILE OR TRANSCENDENCE? Review of Ramona A. Naddaff's Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato's Republic 460 Ian S. Spears: THERE WERE NO ANGELS Review of Mahmood Mamdani's When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda . . . 462 Kimberly Katz: WHY DO THEY HATE US? Review of Douglas Little's American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945 463 Keir A. Lieber: INSUFFICIENTLY UNREALISTIC Review of Maja Zehfuss's Constructivism in International Relations: The Politics of Reality 466 John Kenneth White: TOO MUCH OF A DEAD END Review of David R. Mayhew's Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre 469 J. Budziszewski: STRANGER THAN EVER Review of Peter Augustine Lawler's Aliens in America: The Strange Truth About Our Souls 471 Kevin Smant: PALEOCONSERVATIVES Review of Joseph Scotchie's Revolt From the Heartland: The Struggle for an Authentic Conservatism 473 J. Jackson Barlow: THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN Review of Ranjit Dighe's The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum s Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory and Katharine M. Rogers's L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz 475 h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 00 03 90 48 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :1 2: 26 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500039048 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Contributors To This Issue ROBERT S. SNYDER is Associate Professor of Political Science in Southwestern University. EDWARD CUDDY is Professor of History in Daemen College (formerly Rosary College). DOUGLAS KRIES is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Catholic Studies in Gonzaga University. CARY J. NEDERMAN is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Political Science in Texas A&M University, College Station. KENNETH D. WARD is Assistant Professor of Political Science in Southwest Texas State University. JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN is Laura Spellman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago Divinity School. RUSSELL HITTINGER is the William K. Warren Pro- fessor of Catholic Studies in the University of Tulsa. KEVIN R. DEN DULK is a member of the political science department in Grand Valley State University. ALAIN EPP WEAVER is Country Representative for the Mennonite Central Committee in the occupied Palestinian territories. RANDALL C. ZACHMAN is Associate Professor of Reformation Studies in the Department of Theology in the University of Notre Dame. STEVEN G. AFFELDT is Assistant Professor in Notre Dame's Program of Liberal Studies. GEOFFREY C. BOWDEN is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame. PAUL V. MURPHY is Assistant Professor of History in Grand Valley State University. SHAUN P. YOUNG is author of Be- yond Rawls (2002) and Senior Policy Adviser for the City of Toronto. CHRISTOPHER COLMO teaches political science in Dominican University. IAN S. SPEARS is Assistant Profes- sor of Political Science in the University of Guelph. KIM- BERLY KATZ is Assistant Professor of History in Towson University. KEIR A. LIEBER is Assistant Professor of Politi- cal Science in the University of Notre Dame. JOHN KENNETH WHITE is Professor of Politics in The Catholic University of h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 00 03 90 48 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :1 2: 26 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500039048 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms America. J. BUDZISZEWSKI is Professor of Government and Philosophy in the University of Texas at Austin. KEVIN SMANT is a member of the history department in Indiana Uni- versity South Bend. J. JACKSON BARLOW is Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics in Juniata College. Correction: CATHERINE CONNORS is a doctoral student of political science in the University of Toronto; she was wrongly identified in the Sum- mer issue. We apologize for our mistake. 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