The noblest minds : fame, honor, and the American founding
What made the founding generation of American statesmen so outstanding? To answer this question, this volume brings together a group of historians and political scientists to evaluate a neglected but compelling theory advanced nearly four decades ago by Douglass Adair.
Print Book, English, ©1999
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, ©1999
History
ix, 236 pages ; 24 cm
9780847686810, 9780847686827, 0847686817, 0847686825
40830194
Fame, founders, and the idea of founding in the eighteenth century / Paul A. Rahe
Ben Franklin, hero / Steven Forde
George Washington and the life of honor / Lorraine Smith Pangle and Thomas L. Pangle
John Adams and the quest for fame / C. Bradley Thompson
"The holy cause of freedom": the libertarian legacy of Thomas Jefferson / David N. Mayer
James Madison: memory, service, and fame / Lance Banning
Alexander Hamilton, the love of fame, and modern democratic statesmanship / Peter McNamara
John Marshall and the "false glare" of fame / Robert K. Faulkner
Fame and The federalist / James W. Ceaser
The classical and modern liberal understandings of honor / Thomas L. Pangle