![]() ![]() Helprin’s novel might best be described as an extended meditation on Beatrice’s response in the second Canto of the Inferno, amor mi mosse, che mi fa parlare “love moved me and made me speak.” This, Helprin notes, was Dante’s explanation for why he wrote the Divine Comedy. The tapestry created is of love, honor, dignity, and the freedom to act heroically within a democratic political and social order that trims, calculates, and forgets the preconditions of its freedom and prosperity. However, Helprin’s book is a story of many things that all seem to connect and hold together. ![]() Strange, you say, for a site devoted to law and political thought to devote time to a novel, a love story at that. Mark Helprin, award-winning novelist, former member of the Israeli Army and Air Force, foreign and military policy strategist, comes to Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest novel, In Sunlight and In Shadow. ![]()
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