The Noblest Minds

Fame, Honor, and the American Founding
Herausgeber: Mcnamara, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

Ever since Douglass Adair convincingly demonstrated that a love of fame was central to the American founding, political scientists and historians have started to view the Founders and their acts in a new light. In The Noblest Minds, ten distinguished scholars examine this pass...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780847686827
• ISBN-10: 0847686825
• Artikelnr.: 21820822

Autorenporträt

Edited by Peter McNamara - Contributions by Lance Banning; James Ceaser; Robert Faulkner; Steven Forde; David Mayer; Peter McNamara; Lorraine Smith Pangle; Thomas Pangle; Paul Rahe and C Bradley Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Fame, Founders, and the Idea of Founding in the Eighteenth
Century Chapter 2 Ben Franklin, Hero Chapter 3 George Washington and the
Life of Honor Chapter 4 John Adams and the Quest for Fame Chapter 5 "The
Holy Cause of Freedom": The Libertarian Legacy of Thomas Jefferson Chapter
6 James Madison: Memory, Service, and Fame Chapter 7 Alexander Hamilton,
the Love of Fame, and Modern Democratic Statesmanship Chapter 8 John
Marshall and the "False Glare" of Fame Chapter 9 Fame and The Federalist
Chapter 10 The Classical and Modern Liberal Understandings of Honor Chapter
11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Contributors