Bill Kristol reports that Harry V. Jaffa passed away yesterday:
Harry V. Jaffa, 1918-2015. More sad news: Harry Jaffa, the great interpreter of Lincoln (and much else) has died, age 96.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 11, 2015
By coincidence, Jaffa died on the same day as the great Walter Berns:
Cf. Adams and Jefferson. Walter Berns and Harry Jaffa, two great students of the American republic, died a continent apart on the same day.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 11, 2015
Jaffa was an important scholar of Abraham Lincoln, perhaps most known for publishing Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, which came out nearly 55 years ago. (Here, by the way, are Jaffa’s contributions to THE WEEKLY STANDARD.)
We’ll have more to say on Jaffa (and Berns) in the coming days and weeks.
