Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy, by Michael P. Zuckert, Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xi + 375 pp. THIS COLLECTION, FOR IN TRUTH it is not a unified book, brings together thirteen of Michael Zuckert's essays and lectures written during the past three decades. Although the title suggests that the essays' focus is on liberalism, or at least on Locke's political philosophy, neither is the case. That is, there is almost no mention of liberalism per se until the last thirty pages of the volume; concerning Locke, though some mention of his thought occur in the introduction and in most of the other essays, he serves mainly as a portable backdrop for the particular concern of each essay.
