Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, and Citizens

by Andrew Fiala

Power grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but what do we do when that drama becomes a reality all around us? For a country founded as an escape from British tyranny, the United States seems to have devolved into a land where tyrants rise to power, sycophants blindly follow, and the entire nation suffers.

As ancient Greek philosophers warned us, chaotic tragedy unfolds in the absence of reason,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 153816048X
• ISBN13: 9781538160480
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.2"