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Title:

Classical antiquity and the politics of America : from George Washington to George W. Bush / edited by Michael Meckler.

Publisher:

Baylor University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

x, 231 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

United States--Politics and government.
Civilization, Classical--Influence.
United States--Classical influences.--Classical influences.
Klassieke oudheid.
Politiek.
Culturele invloeden.
Verenigde Staten.

Other Authors:

Meckler, Michael.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-218) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9781932792324
1932792325

LCCN:

2006015944

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)