The forum and the tower how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt / Mary Ann Glendon.
| Author/creator | Glendon, Mary Ann, 1938- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | xiii, 261 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| 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 Locke: the don heard around the world -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: political philosophy without politics -- Edmund Burke: man on a tightrope -- Tocqueville the politician -- Max Weber: scholarship and politics in the disenchanted world -- Oliver Wendell Holmes: the tradition-haunted iconoclast -- The first lady and the philosopher: Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Malik, and the human rights project. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011006021 |
| ISBN | 9780199782451 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0199782458 (hbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |