Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt

by Mary Ann Glendon

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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 meeting of theory and reality. Glendon discusses a...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199782458

ISBN13:9780199782451

Release Date:August 2011

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:3.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"

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History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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