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University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. xi + 468 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00--If for no other reason, this book is worth reading for the attention Professor Wallach affords the methods of interpretation. While the bulk of this lengthy study aims at a wide-ranging understanding of Plato's political art "by focusing on the literary and philosophical connections between words and deeds in his ethical and political dialogues" (p. 6), the structure of the argument and the structure of the book itself takes shape around the attempt to establish a new ...