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Classical antiquity and the politics of America : from George Washington to George W. Bush / edited by Michael Meckler.

Title
Classical antiquity and the politics of America : from George Washington to George W. Bush / edited by Michael Meckler.
Publication
Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
Meckler, Michael
Description
x, 231 p.; 23 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • USA Government
  • USA > Regierung
  • Geschichte (umfassend)
  • Geschichte 1500-2000
  • Civilization, Classical > Influence
  • United States > Civilization > Classical influences
  • United States > Politics and government
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-218) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Classical education in colonial America / William J. Ziobro -- Classical antiquity and early conceptions of the United States Senate / Carl J. Richard -- Classical oratory and fears of demagoguery in the Antebellum Era / Caroline Winterer -- William Sanders Scarborough and the politics of classical education for African Americans / Michele Valerie Ronnick -- The rise of populism, the decline of classical education, and the Seventeenth Amendment / Michael Meckler -- William Linn Westermann at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 / John Milton Cooper, Jr. -- The world of Moses Finkelstein : the year 1939 in M.I. Finley's development as a historian / Daniel P. Tompkins -- Thucydides and the Cold War / Lawrence A. Tritle -- Senator Robert C. Byrd and the wisdom of the ancients / Robert F. Maddox -- Platonism in high places : Leo Strauss, George W. Bush, and the response to 9/11 / Neil G. Robertson.
ISBN
  • 1932792325
  • 9781932792324
LCCN
^^2006015944
OCLC
  • 69241421
  • SCSB-11836173
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library