A longtime agitator against war and social injustice, Lawrence Wittner has been tear-gassed, threatened by police with drawn guns, charged by soldiers with fixed bayonets, spied upon by the U.S. government, arrested, and purged from his job for political -reasons. To say that th…
"Behind every great man (or woman), there's a compulsion"--Provided by the publisher.
"Behind every great man (or woman), there's a compulsion"--Provided by the publisher.
"Behind every great man (or woman), there's a compulsion"--Provided by publisher
"Behind every great man (or woman), there's a compulsion"--Provided by the publisher.
James McGill Buchanan (B. 1919) is an American economist best known for his public choice theory. The founder of a new Virginia school of political economy, he has written extensively on subjects including public finance, macroeconomics, and libertarian theory. <br /><br />Bucha…
In these vivid portraits of prominent twentieth-century intellectuals, Edward Shils couples the sensitivity of a biographer with the profound knowledge of a highly respected scholar. Ranging as widely across various disciplines as Shils himself did, the essays gathered here shar…
