The case for greatness honorable ambition and its critics /
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2007.
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- 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.