From Democrats To Kings

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468302809
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Democrats to Kings written by Michael Scott and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular history of how the ancient world turned from a democracy to a monarchy and “shine[s] a light on the culture that bloomed as Athens faded.”(The Daily Mail) Athens, 404 BC. The Democratic city-state has been ravaged by a long and bloody war with neighboring Sparta. The search for scapegoats begins and Athens, liberty's beacon in the ancient world, turns its sword on its own way of life. Civil war and much bloodshed ensue. Defining moments of Greek history, culture, politics, religion and identity are debated ferociously in Athenian board rooms, back streets and battlefields. By 323 BC, Athens and the rest of Greece, not to mention a large part of the known world, has come under the control of an absolute monarch and a model for despots for millennia to come: Alexander the Great. In this superb popular history, Michael Scott explores the dramatic and little-known story of how the ancient world went from democracy to monarchy in less than 100 years. A superb example of popular history writing, From Democrats to Kings gives us a fresh take on the challenges we face today as democracies—old and new—fight for survival, in which war-time and peace-time have become indistinguishable and in which the severity of the economic crisis is only matched by a crisis in our own sense of self. “Accessible and punchy . . . a wide readership cannot fail to be entertained as well as instructed about a world that is both familiar and alien, modern as well as ancient.” —Paul Cartledge, author of Thermopylae “Gloriously entertaining and provocative.” —Tom Holland, author of Rubicon, Persian Fire

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848311312
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Democrats to Kings written by Michael Scott and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I really enjoyed From Democrats to Kings fascinating and exuberant on Ancient Athens, bringing their politics to life and right up to date, making Ancient Greece relevant for today. Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin and Catherine The Great & Potemkin404 BC: Athens is exhausted at the end of a bloody war with Sparta and the mastership of Greece is left open for the taking. By 323BC, less than 100 years later, Athens, the rest of Greece, and a large part of the known world, has come under the control of a master of self-publicity and a model for despots for millennia to come: megas alexandros, Alexander the Great. Michael Scott tells the dramatic story of how, over the space of merely a generation, the ancient world was turned completely on its head, in a brutal power struggle whose outcome would define the world for centuries.

Author : William R. Everdell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226224824
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Kings written by William R. Everdell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-04-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in clear, lively prose, The End of Kings traces the history of republican governments and the key figures that are united by the simple republican maxim: No man shall rule alone. Breathtaking in its scope, Everdell's book moves from the Hebrew Bible, Solon's Athens and Brutus's Rome to the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson and the Watergate proceedings during which Nixon resigned. Along the way, he carefully builds a definition of "republic" which distinguishes democratic republics from aristocratic ones for both history and political science. In a new foreword, Everdell addresses the impeachment trial of President Clinton and argues that impeachment was never meant to punish private crimes. Ultimately, Everdell's brilliant analysis helps us understand how examining the past can shed light on the present. "[An] energetic, aphoristic, wide-ranging book."—Marcus Cunliffe, Washington Post Book World "Ambitious in conception and presented in a clear and sprightly prose. . . . [This] excellent study . . . is the best statement of the republican faith since Alphonse Aulard's essays almost a century ago." —Choice "A book which ought to be in the hand of every American who agrees with Benjamin Franklin that the Founding Fathers gave us a Republic and hoped that we would be able to keep it."-Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

Author : Katherine Losse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451668252
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boy Kings written by Katherine Losse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about Facebook that will ignite broad cultural conversations about technology, gender, race, and the future of the Internet.

Author : Linda Holman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780726937293
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democrats, Oligarchs and Kings written by Linda Holman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democrats, oligarchs and kings: studies in five ancient societies, volume 2.

Author : James Carville
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416598268
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 40 More Years written by James Carville and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every four years Americans hold a presidential election. Somebody wins and somebody loses. That's life. But 2008 was an anomaly. The election of President Barack Obama is about something far bigger than four or even eight years in the White House. Since 2004, Americans have been witnessing and participating in the emergence of a Democratic majority that will last not four but forty years. To understand the emergence of a lasting Democratic majority we'll first have to spend a few moments reviewing the profound and relentless incompetence of the Bush administration -- and the pursuant collapse of the Republican Party. That means looking back at the failure of Republican ideas -- including a wholesale rejection of the myth of conservative superiority on the economy -- and holding our noses long enough to survey the gallery of truly repellent scoundrels, scandals, and screwups that the Republican Party has been responsible for over the last eight years. After completing the unpleasant but edifying task of autopsying the Republican Party, we'll examine the underpinnings of Democratic victories in 2004, 2006, and 2008 -- and make the argument for why Democrats are going to keep winning. (Two words: young people.) In short, the Republicans are going to keep getting spanked again and again for forty more years because we're right and they're wrong, and Americans know it.

Author : Robert Kimball Shinkoskey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 162564194X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Kings written by Robert Kimball Shinkoskey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inevitable feature of democratic governments is the tendency of their chief executives to pursue domestic policies and foreign wars without the consent of the people. America's own presidents have studiously ignored Congress and the states and have begun to act like all-powerful kings. U.S. presidents make wild promises to get elected, use temporary crises to expand personal power, publish propaganda to divert attention away from their actions, pass out benefits to favored sections of the population in order to get re-elected, and suppress segments of the population who disagree with them. This book chronicles the story of America's lapse into tyranny at the hands of some of its best-known presidents.

Author : Crystal Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621574393
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Con Job written by Crystal Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Democrat Party likes to pose as the party of compassion. But where is the compassion in "sanctuary cities" that allow foreign criminals to prey on innocent Americans? Where is the compassion in encouraging envy and lawlessness? Crystal Wright isn't falling for the liberal con job any longer. A one-time (2008) Obama supporter herself—and now a totally fearless "Conservative Black Chick"—Wright blows the whistle on the Democrat Party and its policies that are destroying America. In Con Job you'll learn why Democrat politicians have no problem with inner-city riots; why Democrats so fervently defend Planned Parenthood, how Democrats are remaking America through massive immigration and more. The 2016 presidential election is set to be one of the most consequential in American history—and Crystal Wright's book is the one you need to help friends and family avoid falling for the Democrat con job yet again.

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521191262
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Delphi and Olympia written by Michael Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates and re-evaluates the remains of the two most important sanctuaries in ancient Greece.

Author : Lewis H. Lapham
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 9780802114464
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wish for Kings written by Lewis H. Lapham and published by Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1993 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the current distaste for dissent, the widespread support for Perot, and the public obsession with celebrity reveal a desire for autocracy