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The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than an inspired storyteller. The author was also an uncannily astute observer of political life and the moral compromises and contradictions that the struggle for power inevitably entails. The Beginning of Politics mines the story of Israel's first two kings to unearth a natural history of power, providing a forceful new reading of what is arguably the first and greatest work of Western political thought. The Beginning of Politics is a timely meditation on the dark side of sovereign power and the enduring dilemmas of statecraft.

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• Full title: Beginning of Politics
• Author: Moshe Halbertal, Stephen Holmes
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780691174624
• ISBN: 9780691174624
• ID: 15401282
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 424 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 147 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. May 2017

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