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Confronting Leviathan - A History of Ideas by David Runciman
Category: Politics
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
How Democracy Ends by David Runciman
Category: Politics
'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
Politics by David Runciman
Category: Politics | Series: Ideas in Profile
In the first title of an exciting new series one of the world's leading political scientists asks the big questions about politics: what is it, why we do we need it and where, in these turbulent times, is it heading? From the gap between rich and poor to the impact of social media, via Machiavelli, Hobb ...Show more
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present by David Runciman
Category: Non-Fiction
Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy th ...Show more
The Handover by David Runciman
Category: Politics
Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before. 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundr ...Show more
Where Power Stops - The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers by David Runciman
Category: True Crime
David Runciman grapples with how character defines and limits the holders of the highest offices in the UK and America.
Where Power Stops - The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers by David Runciman
Category: Politics
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
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