Alexander the Great

A MOST satisfactory life of an eminent military man. Satisfactory is quite what it is; the author may be proud of his work. It is well organized, well documented, thoroughgoing, written in the best of good taste and in a style which has every attraction of lucid simplicity. The book has a special value now, because it shows so well how strictly international affairs today are in a pattern which was standard in Alexander’s time and had been standard for ages before. One imperialist hegemony, built in the first instance on conquest and confiscation, then gradually corroding and crumbling until violently challenged and superseded by another which likewise in the first instance was built on conquest and confiscation — such, as Gumplowicz remarks, is the sum of the political history of mankind.