A review by dustyduck
On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present by Alan Ryan

4.0

Solid overview of the history of political thought. The bias towards Western political thought is regrettable, though not as bad as could be, and largely avoids the teleological trap that many similar undertakings fall into. Ultimately political theories are not novel, sui generis developments but built on the shoulders of giants, and this tidy volume does well to remind us of that.