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Plato’s Republic: A Biography    Simon Blackburn
This is a terrible book. Blackburn admits in the preface that he knows nothing about Plato, and that he wrote it because his agent got him the gig. He then proceeds to talk about philosophers and other people instead of talking about The Republic. And, like a lot of people who can’t understand something, he ridicules it to cover his ignorance instead of explaining it. I’m not a fan of Plato, and I still am angered by what he did. A really huge waste.