{"product_id":"honorable-ambition","title":"Honorable Ambition","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles R. Kesler, an eminent scholar and prodigious editor, has exerted a profound influence on the study of American politics and the practice of American conservatism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA precocious high-school student, he impressed a visiting William F. Buckley Jr. who, before becoming a life-long friend, wrote him a recommendation letter to Yale. Kesler asked for another—to Harvard, where he completed his undergraduate degree and earned a PhD under the legendary professor Harvey C. Mansfield. An early passion for political journalism, played out largely on the pages of \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, led Kesler to author an \u003ci\u003eNR\u003c\/i\u003e cover story on his third great influence, Harry V. Jaffa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKesler became a faculty colleague of Jaffa’s at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University and is perhaps best known as the editorial helmsman of the Claremont Review of Books. The author of I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism and Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness, Kesler also co-edited (with William F. Buckley Jr.) Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought. His edited volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Federalist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e is the best-selling edition version in the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, Kesler’s students, friends, and colleagues commemorate his four-decade career as a teacher, mentor, and scholar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57299928449406,"sku":"NW9781641773492","price":19.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781641773492.jpg?v=1778525244","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/honorable-ambition","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}