Ian Sansom

Look back, face forward

Mount’s critical examination of 12 great political thinkers will make us all sit up, face forward and sort ourselves out

  • Prime Movers: From Pericles to Gandhi: Twelve Great Political Thinkers and What’s Wrong with Each of Them

    Ferdinand Mount

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 438

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