Harvey Flaumenhaft obtained his doctorate in political science at the University of Chicago. For over fifty years, he has been a member of the senior faculty at St. John's College, Annapolis, during which he also served as chief academic officer for eight years. He is the author of The Effective Republic: Administration and Constitution in the Thought of Alexander Hamilton and also of Insights and Manipulations: What Classical Geometry Looked Like at Its Peak and How It Was Transformed--A Guidebook. He founded and edited, under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a series of volumes called Masterworks of Discovery: Guided Studies of Great Texts in Science. His work on the intellectual tradition of the West also includes talks and articles on the American founding and on some sources of modern science.