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by Waller R. Newell (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press (March 29, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1107083052
  • ISBN-13: 978-1107083059
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsMust Read for those interested in Tyranny as one of the key problems of politics.
By Clifford Angell Bates on April 19, 2016
Format: Hardcover
For those who have already read Tyranny: A New Interpretation and liked it, you will not be just getting a dumb down repeat performance--but something wholly new and wholly different. Waller Newell's new book Tyrants is a very good history of the tyrants. This book is written for a general audience, not an academic one--even if its published by a publisher more known as an academic one than a popular one. [Yet I hope Cambridge will put together a student's edition for a textbook in a few years--with the notes and references students and scholars would need and like to have at ready access, as I think this would be a very very good text book.] But the book market has even forced academic publishers to fight in the general readership these days. And Cambidge ought to be very happy here with this book as it is very much a book that is written for the general audience but yet does not talk down to them as all too many of such books are apt to do. No, Newell rather pushes them to think and think hard and and doing so gets me thinking this is a very good book for teachers to use to teach a course on Tyranny. Far more so than his earlier book on Tyranny: A New Interpretation. From Cambridge University Press which was very much an academic book trying to force again scholars to take Tyranny seriously.

I actually one ought to read both of Newell books on this subject together and you see how different each of these books are and why gets a much much deeper conversation examination on the theme from him than when you take each book on its own. This is not saying that individually each of these books don't offer a lot as well. But together they offer very deep look at the different sides of the same coin and this is something that most writers would have a very hard time pulling off.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA splendid treatment of a grisly topic!
By x on April 16, 2016
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What a splendid treatment of a grisly, brutal topic! Newell has done it again: a learned and searching, amusing and insightful discussion of history's wickedest rulers. If you're wondering which of the books on tyranny to begin with, start here.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA fantastic read. Enlightening - filled with a healthy mixture ...
By Daryl W. Kaytor on May 22, 2016
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A fantastic read. Enlightening - filled with a healthy mixture of wit and wonder.
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