Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199782451ISBN-10:199782458UPC:9780199782451Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Theory, WorldSize:9.55 x 6.38 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC56SHASEJ
Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt
As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success-since Plato himself.
In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, from ancient Syracuse to the modern White House, in a series of brisk portraits that explore the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199782451ISBN-10:199782458UPC:9780199782451Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Theory, WorldSize:9.55 x 6.38 x 0.93 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC56SHASEJ
Mary Ann Glendon is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and is a former United States Ambassador to the Vatican. Her books include Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, A Nation Under Lawyers, and A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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