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Edward J. Erler. Erler was a member of the California Advisory Commission on Civil Rights from 1988-2006 and served on the California Constitutional Revision Commission in 1996. He has testified on birthright citizenship and on voting rights on two occasions before the House Judiciary Committee and on other civil rights issues before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Erler earned a BA from San Jose State University, financed by the GI bill for services rendered, and an MA and PhD in government from the Claremont Graduate School.
Harry Jaffa was a man of many wise words and died at age 96 with more to say. He asked Ed Erler, a scholar of political philosophy in his own right—and Jaffa’s student, neighbor, friend, and confidante—to say them for him if he could, completing the final volume in Jaffa’s planned Lincoln trilogy. Prophetic Statesmanship not only delivers on Jaffa’s unfulfilled promise to examine the Gettysburg Address, but offers a synoptic and incisive account of Lincoln’s peerless statesmanship. Erler understands, and imitates, Jaffa’s Lincoln scholarship as an exercise in Socratic dialectic. —Glenn Ellmers, author of The Soul of Politics: Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America From start to finish Erler’s magnificent account of Harry V. Jaffa’s lifework defies other scholars to best it. In fulfilling his teacher’s command to complete his Gettysburg project, the seven chapters of Prophetic Statesmanship recall Plato’s Laws. The tension between philosophy and theology requires Jaffa’s focus on the virtue of prudence to expose false accounts of natural right and equality today. —Ken Masugi, Senior Fellow, Claremont Institute
