Oct 042011
 

On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present

Three decades in the making, one of the most ambitious and comprehensive histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.Both a history and an examination of human thought and behavior spanning three thousand years, On Politics thrillingly traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli in Book I and from Hobbes to the present age in Book II. Whether examining Lord Acton’s dictum that “absolute power corrupts absolutely” or explicating John Stuart Mi

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