Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, Revised Edition

by David Runciman

Book Overview

What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. Political Hypocrisy is a timely, and timeless, book on the problems of sincerity and truth in politics, and how we can deal with them without slipping into hypocrisy ourselves. Runciman draws on the work of some of the great truth-tellers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691180857
• ISBN13: 9780691180854
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"