Document Type
Review
Publication Date
1996
Abstract
This is in many ways an engaging book, written in a refreshingly direct and unobfuscatory style. Its chief problem is living up to the rather grand expectations raised by the title, expectations that the author half-way through the enterprise admits he did not mean to evoke (p. 74). What the reader will find is less a systematic essay or sustained treatment of authority than several penetrating readings of intense conflicts dealing with a substantially narrower issue: controlling who gets to speak in public settings that are authority conferring - in councils, senates and law courts.
Recommended Citation
Miller, William I. Review of Authority: Construction and Corrosion, by B. Lincoln. Hist. Pol. Thought 17, no. 3 (1996): 453-4.