TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glendon,Mary Ann
TI  - The forum and the tower: how scholars and politicians have imagined the world, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt 
SN  - 9780190252533 (ebook) :
AV  - JA81 .G56 2011
U1  - 320.9 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Political science
KW  - History
KW  - Scholars
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Learning and scholarship
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret - and the occasional brilliant success - since Plato himself. This book 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
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199782451.001.0001
ER  -