The Burden of Office: Agamemnon and Other Losers

by Joseph Tussman

Joseph Tussman's The Burden of Office is a book about the nature of political authority. Consider the symptoms of our present dilemma: leadership reduced to media "sound bites," legitimate public power sold off to the marketplace in the name of "privatization," citizens transformed into dubiously literate consumers in a Global Village. Can we make sense of any of this? To do so, Tussman turns to some of the oldest and greatest stories in our tradition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889222657
• ISBN13: 9780889222656
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"