The forum and the tower : how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleano...
The forum and the tower : how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleano...
The forum and the tower : how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt / Mary Ann Glendon.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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N320.9/68
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English
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xiii, 261 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Plato in the real city -- Marcus Tullius Cicero : politics in a dying republic -- Justinian, Tribonian, and Irnerius : how statesmen and scholars rescued Roman law (twice) -- Advising the prince : the enigma of Machiavelli -- The scholar vs. the statesman : Thomas Hobbes and Edward Coke -- John Lock...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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England
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c2011.
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"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 meeting of theory and reality. Glendon discusses a roster of great names, from Edmund Burke to Alexis de Tocqueville, Machiavelli to Rousseau, John Locke to Max W...
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The forum and the tower : how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt / Mary Ann Glendon.
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How scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.
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c2011.
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0199782458 (hbk.)
9780199782451 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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320.9
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