"Political Moderation in America's First Two Centuries seeks to correct the popular impression of moderation as timidity and caution. Robert McCluer Calhoon examines the structure of political moderation in detail, characterizing it as a compound of principle and prudence and defining it as humility in the face of the past and as historically grounded political ethics." "Calhoon examines moderation's history during the Peloponnesian War, the French...