This collection of letters exchanged between Robert B. Heilman and Eric Voegelin records a friendship that lasted more than forty years. These scholars, both giants in their own fields, shared news of family and events, academic gossip, personal and professional vicissitudes, academic successes, and, most important, ideas.
Heilman and Voegelin first became acquainted around 1941, when Voegelin delivered a guest lecture for the political science...