Mary Ann Glendon

How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor RooseveltThe Forum and the Tower tackles a fascinating and perennial topic: the relationship between the academy and the world of politics. For all the talk about the remoteness of ivory tower ideas from 'the real world,' it is the case that ideas do in fact have...

How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor RooseveltAs 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.   In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines...