Description: 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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"This collection would serve as excellent outside reading for courses in American political theory or for those that focus on the founding period." --American Political Science Review
"This work is an important contribution to its field. . . . Contributes mightily to a rethinking of the foundations of politics. Students of politics have fully attended to fear and greed as low motives in human life; this work points the way toward a more adequate treatment of the specifically political motive of lofty ambition." --Harvey Flaumenhaft, St. John's College