Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography by Green, Peter - 1991

University of California Press, 1991. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of California Press, 1991. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of California Press, 1991-08-05. Hardcover. Used: Good.

University of California Press, 1991-08-05. Hardcover. Very good. 5.75x1.5x8.5. Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Green describes his Alexander as ""not only the most brilliant (and ambitious) field commander in history, but also supremely indifferent to all those administrative excellences and idealistic yearnings foisted upon him by later generations, especially those who found the conqueror, tout court, a little hard upon their liberal sensibilities.""This biography begins not with one of the universally… Read More

University of California Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

University of California Press, 1991-08-05. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. Some foxing on the fore edges. Binding not tight at the top edge of the spine. Nice reading copy.

University of California Press. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Very Good dust jacket. Rear hinge cracked.

University of California Press. Used - Good. Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

University of California Press, 1991-08-05. hardcover. Good/Good. 5x1x8. Hardcover. Light to moderate rubbing to boards and dust jacket. Binding square and tight. No highlighting, notation, or remainder marks. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Very good. University of California, 1991, 617 pages, a nice hardcover in a vg+/ dj, no owner's mark or underlining.