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Lydia McKinley, single mother of eight, chronicles her life through inspirational stories of strength, will, and unrelenting faith. Imagine being a little black girl in the south, walking down the street at night, with a flashlight and no street lights, on your way back from seeing a dead body. Imagine being pulled into a strange man's apartment at age sixteen and held captive for hours. Imagine giving birth to eight children, going through chemo and radiation therapies, and experiencing a heart attack; and that's only a portion of the challenges you'd have to endure. Where would the tenacity...

Political philosophy, perhaps even more than other branches of philosophy, calls for constant renewal to reflect not just re-readings of the tradition but also the demands of current events. In this lively and readable survey, Jean Hampton has created a text for our time that does justice both to the great traditions of the field and to the newest developments. In a marvelous feat of synthesis, she links the classical tradition, the giants of the modern period, the dominant topics of the twentieth century, and the new questions and concerns that are just beginning to rewrite contemporary...