The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
by Herman, Arthur
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- 0553385666
- ISBN 13
- 9780553385663
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Arthur Herman is the bestselling author of Freedom’s Forge, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, The Idea of Decline in Western History, To Rule the Waves, and Gandhi & Churchill, which was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. Herman taught the Western Heritage Program at the Smithsonian’s Campus on the Mall, and he has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, The Catholic University of America, George Mason University, and The University of the South at Sewanee.
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
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- Title
- The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
- Author
- Herman, Arthur
- Book Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553385666
- ISBN 13
- 9780553385663
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Place of Publication
- Nyc
- This edition first published
- 2014-06-03
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