Alexandre Kojeve Book

I've labored through two of Drury's books now, and I think I can say with confidence that Drury is a terrible reader of both Kojève and Strauss, as well as being a shallow and tendentious writer. In short, she's a hack. She repeatedly falls into the cheap, journalistic trap of drawing ridiculously simplistic causal pictures, in which complex ideological and sociopolitical realities are reduced to dimensionless shadow plays. Honestly, her hamfisted conclusions consist of nothing but trite laments, rhetorical scare tactics, and an extensive appeal to guilt by association. It's very unfortunate, given that the topics she seems inclined to write about (e.g., Strauss's influence on American neoconservative thought, Kojève's strange popularity among elements of both the radical left and the radical right) are quite interesting. Yet Drury, in all her fury, consistently manages to cast no illumination whatsoever. Rather, she obscures the topics almost entirely.