The case for greatness honorable ambition and its critics / Robert Faulkner.
| Author/creator | Faulkner, Robert K., 1934- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, |
| Description | xi, 264 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007023112 |
| ISBN | 9780300123937 (alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |