50 Politics Classics

Name: 50 Politics Classics
Brand: John Murray Press
SKU: 9781473655430-V
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By Tom Butler Bowdon

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We live in politically charged times, but little of what we contend with today is new and much can be learnt from history. 50 Politics Classics reveals the major writings of political leaders, philosophers and activists, spanning over 2,000 years. With insightful commentaries on the texts that have shaped history and writer biographies, this serves as an illuminating introduction to politics and political philosophy. GAIN the insights of great political philosophers and leaders: Lord Acton on freedom - Aristotle on happiness - Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism Isaiah Berlin on liberty - Edward Bernays on propaganda - Edmund Burke on conservatism- Winston Churchill on leadership - Von Clausewitz on war - Gandhi on moral power - Emma Goldman on anarchism - Alexander Hamilton on federalism - Hobbes on state power - Machiavelli on republics - Nelson Mandela on political struggle - Sun Yat-sen on China -Thoreau on civil disobedience - De Tocqueville on America - Solzhenitsyn on Stalinist Russia Margaret Thatcher on the individual - Mary Wollstonecraft & JS Mill on the rights of women EXPLORE key ideas and events through the eyes of contemporary commentators: Acemoglu & Robinson on why nations fail - Graham Allison on the Cuban missile crisis Bernstein & Woodward on Watergate - Francis Fukuyama on the end of history Paul Kennedy on the rise and fall of great powers - Naomi Klein on the public sphere Joseph Nye on the future of power - Wilkinson & Picket on inequality - Fareed Zakaria on the post-American world DISCOVER landmark modern and contemporary texts in politics and political economy: Rules For Radicals - The Great Illusion - Silent Spring - The Road to Serfdom - The Clash of Civilizations - The Autobiography of Martin Luther King - The Gettysburg Address - Anarchy, State, and Utopia - Politics Among Nations - The Rise and Decline of Nations - Common Sense - The Open Society and Its Enemies - The Jungle

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Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

336

Release Date:

2017-05-30

Publication Date:

2017-05-04

Publisher:

John Murray Press

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

1473655439

ISBN13:

9781473655430

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Weight:

356 g

Height:

136 cm

Width:

213 cm

Thickness:

27 cm

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