On Politics

  • On Politics: A History of Political Thought - From Herodotus to the Present
    By Alan Ryan

    (Lenin), 921–22 Whigs, 529, 619, 629 Country, 513, 579 Whitefield, George, 595 White Guelphs, 265 “white man's burden,” 844, 847, 868 White Russians, 924–25 Why IAm Not a Communist (Russell), 928–29 Wilde, Oscar, 977 Wild Man of Borneo, ...

  • On Politics: A History of Political Thought: from Herodotus to the Present
    By Alan Ryan

    Finally in a one-volume paperback edition, On Politics is one of the most ambitious and hugely readable histories of political philosophy in nearly a century.

  • On Politics: A History of Political Thought
    By Alan Ryan

    With this “epic” (John Keane, Financial Times) tour de force, Ryan affirms his place as one of the most influential political philosophers of our time.

  • On Politics
    By Alan Ryan

    This is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question:how should human beings best govern themselves?

  • On Politics: A New History of Political Philosophy
    By Professor of Politics Alan Ryan

    On Politics: A New History of Political Philosophy

  • On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
    By Henry Louis Mencken

    Henry Cabot Lodge read and redacted the manuscript — Cabot the palladium of correctness , the super - grammarian , the Harvard exquisite . How did all those ghastly snarls and bubbles of speech elude his cultured eye ?

  • On Politics
    By Alan Ryan

    Deals with the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question: how should human beings best govern themselves?