Bøger af Philip Abbott

Inspired by a collection of letters received by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle during the First World War, Philip Abbott explores the inspirational campaign to provide body armour to British soldiers serving in the trenches.

Students of political thought, American history, and American literature will find this biography a provocative one that brings the period alive in new ways. A short introduction shows how Calverton yearned to be an American Lenin-Cassanova-Pericles.

?An able book about the complex world of contemporary American political thought....The great strength of this book is its stimulating individual chapters. Many of them are excellent as single essays and deserve enthusiastic praise....A significant and laudable contribution to the study of American political theory. He deserves congratulations.?-American Historical Review