• The Trial of Socrates
  • Author: I. F. Stone
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Reprint Edition
  • Publication Date: February 27, 1989
  • Print Length: 304 Pages
  • Product Description

In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today. The New York Times called this national best-seller an “intellectual thriller.”

  • About the Author

I. F. Stone was an investigative journalist and writer, best remembered for his newsletter I. F. Stone’s Weekly, which was ranked by New York University in 16th place among the top 100 works of journalism in the United States in the twentieth century. He won numerous awards, including the Eleanor Roosevelt Award, the American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Award, the Columbia University Journalism Award, and the American Civil Liberties Union Award. He died in 1989.

  • Review

From Publishers Weekly: “The philosopher we meet on these pages is an arrogant, bullying elitist who welcomed death and did his best to antagonize the jury that sentenced him,” stated PW. “In this iconoclastic portrait of a secular saint, Socrates emerges as a thoroughly dislikable, albeit superior, man who upheld unpopular truths.” Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.