particular, he identified "old" statesmanship as political leadership that actually forges and imposes a political identity and ethical norms on a people—i.e., the kind of leadership exercised by the American founders. This he distinguished from a narrower form of statesmanship that is compatible with constitutional liberalism and its toleration of diverse conceptions of the good life. Personal life and teaching Storing was born on January 29, 1928, in Ames, Iowa. His father, James A. Storing, was a professor, Provost and, for a time, acting president of Colgate University. He served in the U.S. Army after World War II, from 1946 to 1948. Storing was an unusually dedicated graduate teacher and adviser. As his close friend Walter Berns recalled, "It seemed to me that he must have served on at least half of the [University of Chicago political science] department’s dissertation committees, a disproportionate number as chairman. At any rate, I have a memory of manuscripts piled on his desk awaiting his attention. Unlike some professors I have known, Storing read them all with great care. His students will attest to this." Storing regularly provided his graduate students with further opportunities to learn outside of the classroom, hosting extra-curricular seminars as well as reading groups. As his colleague Joseph Cropsey wrote: "Storing was a powerful, extremely influential teacher. The forthrightness and uprightness of the scholar in his writing were forcefully manifest in the man as presence. His logic straightened his thought without hardening his heart; his students learned from his example the difference between sentiment and sentimentality." His former graduate students include: John Rohr, Murray Dry, Paul Eidelberg, William Galston, Michael Allen Gillespie, Jennifer Nedelsky, Thomas Pangle, David H. Rosenbloom, Gary J. Schmitt, Jeffrey K. Tulis, and Michael Zuckert Bibliography Toward a More Perfect Union: Writings of Herbert J. Storing – Edited by Joseph M. Bessette. Washington: The AEI Press, 1995. The Anti-Federalist – Editor. Abridged by Murray Dry from The Complete Anti-Federalist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. What the Anti-Federalists Were For: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution – Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981; reprinted in 2008. The Complete Anti-Federalist – Editor. 7 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. What Country Have I? Political Writings by Black Americans – Editor. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1970. The State and the Farmer – With Peter Self. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963; paperback edition, 1971.