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The case for greatness : honorable ambition and its critics
- Title
- The case for greatness : honorable ambition and its critics / Robert Faulkner.
- Author
- Faulkner, Robert K., 1934-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 264 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Ambition
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: honorable statesmen and obscuring theories -- The gentleman-statesman : Aristotle's (complicated) great-souled man -- Imperial ambition in free politics : the problem of Thucydides' Alcibiades -- The soul of grand ambition : Alcibiades cross-examined by Socrates -- Imperial grandeur and imperial hollowness : Xenophon's Cyrus the Great -- Obscuring the truly great : Washington and modern theories of fame -- Honorable greatness denied (1) : the egalitarian web -- Honorable greatness denied (2) : the premises.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-347
- ISBN
- 9780300123937 (alk. paper)
- 0300123930 (alk. paper)
- 9780300120202 (alk. paper)
- 0300120206 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007023112
- OCLC
- 144570817
- Author
- Faulkner, Robert K., 1934-
- Title
- The case for greatness : honorable ambition and its critics / Robert Faulkner.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-347