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The forum and the tower :

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0199782458 (hbk.)

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9780199782451 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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b533865

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The forum and the tower :

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[Book]

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how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt /

First Statement of Responsibility

Mary Ann Glendon

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

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Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2011

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xiii, 261 p. ;

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25 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index

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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

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"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 roster of great names, from Edmund Burke to Alexis de Tocqueville, Machiavelli to Rousseau, John Locke to Max Weber, down to Charles Malik, who helped Eleanor Roosevelt draft the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. With each, she explores the eternal questions they faced, including: Is politics such a dirty business that I shouldn't get involved? Will I betray my principles by pursuing public office? Can I make a difference, or will my efforts be wasted? Even the most politically successful intellectuals, she notes, did not all end happily. The brilliant Marcus Tullius Cicero, for example, reached the height of power in the late Roman Republic, then fell victim to intrigue, assassinated at Mark Antony's order. Yet others had a lasting impact. The legal scholar Tribonian helped Byzantine Emperor Justinian I craft the Corpus Juris Civilis, which became a bedrock of Western law. Portalis and Napoleon emulated them, creating the civil code that the French emperor regarded as his greatest legacy"--Provided by publisher

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How scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt

Burke, Edmund,1729-1797

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Coke, Edward,1552-1634

Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1841-1935

Irnerius,active 12th century

Justinian, I,483?-565

Locke, John,1632-1704

Machiavelli, Niccolò,1469-1527

Malik, Charles Habib,1906-1987

Plato

Roosevelt, Eleanor,1884-1962

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,1712-1778

Tocqueville, Alexis de,1805-1859

Tribonian,-545?

Weber, Max,1864-1920

Learning and scholarship-- Political aspects-- History

Political science-- History

Scholars-- Political activity-- History

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Glendon, Mary Ann,1938-

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20120105122719.0

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