The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall

by Eliot A. Cohen

What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics

William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost.

In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A. Cohen reveals how the battling princes of Henry IV and scheming senators of Julius Caesar can teach us to better understand power and politics today. The White House, after all, is a court--with intrigue and conflict...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541644867
• ISBN13: 9781541644861
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"