This volume brings together the major writings of Herbert J. Storing (1928-1977), one of America's most thoughtful students
of constitutional theory and public administration. Included are essays on such topics as the American founding, race relations in America, rights and the public interest, bureaucracy and big
government, and statesmanship. The editor is the Alice Tweed Tuohy Associate Professor of Government and Ethics at Claremont McKenna College. Excerpts from the editor's introduction follow.
Of the twenty-four selections included here, fourteen were originally
published as separate essays. In the present volume they are joined by ten other writings, five of which have not been published before. In any project of this sort, space limitations dictate that judgments must be made about what to include and exclude. The purpose here has been to bring together Herbert J. Storing's major essays, excerpts from longer works, and significant unpublished writings across the range of issues that focused his scholarship (and teaching) during his highly productive, though unfortunately truncated, academic career.