Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals

By Samuel McCormick

Book Overview

Discusses the role of the intellectual in public life. Argues that the scarcity of public intellectuals among today's academics is a challenge to us to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Looks to ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271050748
• ISBN13: 9780271050744
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"