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Confronting Leviathan - A History of Ideas by David Runciman
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics host David Runciman, A History of Ideas explores some of the most important thinkers and prominent ideas lying behind modern politics - from Hobbes to Gandhi, from democracy to patriarchy, and from revolution to lock down. While explaining ...Show more
Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas by David Runciman
$25.00 NZD
Category: History
A primer on political theory from bestselling author and host of Talking Politics David Runciman. 'Bracingly intelligent ... a wonderful read' - Guardian 'Incredibly timely ... presented [with] wonderful elegance and clarity' - Irish Times Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking Politics ...Show more
How Democracy Ends by David Runciman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, ObserverDemocracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends and the military arrives to restore order, until the p ...Show more
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond by David Runciman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. The most dangerous form of political hypocrisy is to claim to have a politics w ...Show more
Where Power Stops - The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers by David Runciman
$36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different motivations, methods, and paths, but they all sought the highest office. And yet when they reached their goal, they often found that the power they had imagin ...Show more
Where Power Stops - The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers by David Runciman
$34.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
David Runciman grapples with how character defines and limits the holders of the highest offices in the UK and America.
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