01469cam a2200289 4500 350149720 TxAuBib 20130225120000.0 120406s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012012351 9780871404657 hardcover $75.00 0871404656 hardcover $75.00 (OCoLC)783161149 DLC eng DLC BTCTA YDXCP BDX NTE IHV BWX OUP VP@ ORK N15 OCLCO CDX ORZ RV8 ALH TxAuBib Ryan, Alan, 1943- On politics : a history of political thought from Herodotus to the present / Alan Ryan. 1st ed. New York : Liveright Pub. Corp, 2012. 2 v. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Book one: Herodotus to Machiavelli -- Book two: Hobbes to the present. Traces the origins of political philosophy and the lives of the great thinkers from the ancient Greeks to Machiavelli to Hobbes and to the present and illuminates the ideas and beliefs that helped shape each era. 20130225. Political science Philosophy History. Political scientists History.