Classical antiquity and the politics of America : from George Washington to George W. Bush

Weitere Verfasser: Meckler, Michael.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, 2006.
Umfang/Format: x, 231 p. ; 23 cm.
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 10 Datensätze
Online Zugang: Table of contents only
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Classical education in colonial America / William J. Ziobro
  • Classical antiquity and early conceptions of the United States Senate / Carl J. Richard
  • Classical oratory and fears of demagoguery in the Antebellum Era / Caroline Winterer
  • William Sanders Scarborough and the politics of classical education for African Americans / Michele Valerie Ronnick
  • The rise of populism, the decline of classical education, and the Seventeenth Amendment / Michael Meckler
  • William Linn Westermann at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 / John Milton Cooper, Jr.
  • The world of Moses Finkelstein : the year 1939 in M.I. Finley's development as a historian / Daniel P. Tompkins
  • Thucydides and the Cold War / Lawrence A. Tritle
  • Senator Robert C. Byrd and the wisdom of the ancients / Robert F. Maddox
  • Platonism in high places : Leo Strauss, George W. Bush, and the response to 9/11 / Neil G. Robertson.