 and Strauss had to run for his life effectively from his own teacher. And he thought something's gone very wrong here with thinking we should start over, and he went back to the classics. Jaffa, in 1954 roughly, picked up a copy of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in a used bookstore and didn't know anything about them. Started reading them in the store. Came back the next day to read some more. It was a big decision to buy a book.