An enjoyable, understandable overview of political philosophy from the ancient world to modern times. Moving in a more-or-less historical direction, the descriptions will typically explain a philosopher's objections/responses to what preceded them. That works fine until you get to modern times, where we're kind of left with contemporary philosophers having the last word. While I liked the idea of having illustrations to enliven the text, the drawings themselves were mostly amateurish in execution and odd in content. They really don't add much apart from keeping the text from looking too dense on the page. ( )