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The Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt
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from Oxford Univ Pr (August 5, 2011)
9780199782451 | details & prices | 261 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $27.95
About: 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.