From the great thinkers in political philosophy such as Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu and Machiavelli, to the practitioners of power and influence including Lincoln, Mao, Churchill, Kennedy, Gandhi, Thatcher and Mandela. Who came up with the term 'soft power'? What is the 'clash of civilizations'? Do we now live in a 'post- American world'? 50 Politics Classics provides answers, with 4-5 page commentaries on each title including representative quotes and author biographies.50 Politics Classics provides the perfect entry point to the field to the books, speeches and pamphlets that really changed minds - and changed the world in the process - and provides balanced and objective treatment of the most influential ideas at a time of great political upheaval worldwide.


About the Author:

Tom Butler-Bowdon is an expert on the literature of possibility, covering philosophy, psychology, prosperity, spirituality, motivation and self-help. USA Today described him as a true scholar of this type of literature. His first book, 50 Self-Help Classics, won the Benjamin Franklin Award and was a Foreword magazine Book of the Year. The 50 Classics series has sold over 300,000 copies and has been published in 23 languages.

A graduate of the London School of Economics (International Political Economy) and the University of Sydney, (Government and History), he lives in Oxford, UK.