The Forum and the Tower: How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, From Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt

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The Forum and the Tower tackles a fascinating and perennial topic: the relationship between the academy and the world of politics. The accomplished Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon traces this crucial relationship from Classical Greece taking readers through the Roman Empire, Renaissance Italy, the English revolution, the Federalist era in the US, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars, the Concert of Europe, the progressive era, and the New Deal/World War II era.

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Plato in the Real City

This chapter details Plato's career in politics. As a young man, his sole ambition was to follow in the footsteps of other family members who were prominent in the public life of Athens. But he was exceptionally unlucky in his attempts to secure a leading role in public affairs. After trav... see more

Marcus Tullius Cicero

This chapter focuses on Marcus Tullius Cicero, a statesman who strongly believed that a life of public service was “the course that has always been followed by the best men.” But his efforts to preserve the form of government he called republican were doomed to failure. Later generations w... see more

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