Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss

My friend Adrian Walker recommended Strauss to me as someone I would find congenial. I was vaguely familiar with Strauss from references to him, and I fortunately took Adrian's advice. This book masterfully draws the distinctions between classical and modern thinking on natural law, identifies the true implications of the "fact-value" distinction, gives a brief but wonderful account of the origin of philosophy, probes the meaning of modern natural right and its crisis, and along the way provides insight on philosophers from Socrates to Lucretius to Hobbes, Rousseau and Edmund Burke among many others. A real treasure.