| Author | : Silvio A. Bedini |
| Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 672 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Inventor, botanist, geographer, archaeologist, architect, tireless recorder of the natural world--Bedini gives us the Jefferson that not only forged the politics of America, but made scientific progress synonymous with the spirit of America. 24 photographs.
| Author | : Pamela Edwards |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 023113178X |
This innovative book examines the fundamental continuities in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's writing during the revolutionary period of 1794 through 1834 to demonstrate his importance as a political philosopher and to recover romanticism as both an aesthetic and political movement.
| Author | : Daniel J. Mahoney |
| Publisher | : Encounter Books |
| Total Pages | : 175 |
| Release | : 2022-05-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1641772425 |
In The Statesman as Thinker, Daniel J. Mahoney provides thoughtful and elegant portraits of statesmen who struggled to preserve freedom during times of crisis: Cicero using all the powers of rhetoric to preserve republican liberty in Rome against Caesar’s encroaching autocracy; Burke defending ordered liberty against Jacobin tyranny in revolutionary France; Tocqueville defending liberty and human dignity against blind reaction, democratic impatience, and revolutionary fanaticism; Lincoln preserving the American republic and putting an end to chattel slavery; Churchill defending liberty and law and opposing Nazi and Communist despotism; de Gaulle defending the honor of France during World War II; and Havel fighting Communism before 1989 and then leading the Czech Republic with dignity and grace. Mahoney makes sense of the mixture of magnanimity and moderation that defines the statesman as thinker at his or her best. That admirable mixture of greatness, courage, and moderation owes much to classical and Christian wisdom and to the noble desire to protect the inheritance of civilization against rapacious and destructive despotic regimes and ideologies.
| Author | : Beatriz Bossi |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2018-11-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110605546 |
This volume tackles both the apparent lack of unity and the perplexing philosophical content of the Statesman as it explores, in what is now Plato's second account, subsequent to that of the Republic, of what would constitute the best society, the role and nature of the statesman in it; the art of governance of it; the role and nature of its laws; the role and status of its female citizens; and how the virtues are interwoven within it, along with many other topics, including (in a major Myth) that of the origins of the universe and of humankind. Coming as they do from often widely differing hermeneutical traditions, the authors in the volume offer responses to substantive and intriguing questions that the dialogue raises which are frequently divergent, but by that very token of much value in any attempt to interpret a complex and multifaceted work.
| Author | : George Ingham Brown |
| Publisher | : Alan Sutton Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780750926744 |
FDR rated bount Rumford, along with his contemporaries Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the greatest mind America has yet produced.
| Author | : Clyde Martin Christensen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
In tracing the brilliant career of E. C. Stakman -- one of the founders of modern plant pathology -- this biography describes some of the major events in plant science during the past 100 years.
| Author | : M. S. Lane |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 1998-01-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0521582296 |
Among Plato's works, the Statesman is usually seen as transitional between the Republic and the Laws. This book argues that the dialogue deserves a special place of its own. Whereas Plato is usually thought of as defending unchanging knowledge, Dr Lane demonstrates how, by placing change at the heart of political affairs, Plato reconceives the link between knowledge and authority. The statesman is shown to master the timing of affairs of state, and to use this expertise in managing the conflict of opposed civic factions. To this political argument corresponds a methodological approach which is seen to rely not only on the familiar method of 'division', but equally on the unfamiliar centrality of the use of 'example'. The demonstration that method and politics are interrelated transforms our understanding of the Statesman and its fellow dialogues.
| Author | : Nina Burleigh |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0060002425 |
"After Smithson's death, nineteenth-century American politicans were given the task of securing his half-million dollars - the equivalent today of fifty million - and then trying to determine how to increase and diffuse knowledge from the muddy, brawling new city of Washington. Burleigh discloses how Smithson's bequest was nearly lost due to fierce battles among many clashing Americans - Southern slavers, state's rights advocates, nation-builders, corrupt frontiersmen, and Anglophobes who argued over whether a gift from an Englishman should even be accepted. She also reveals the efforts of the unsung heroes, mainly former president John Quincy Adams, whose tireless efforts finally saw Smithson's curious notion realized in 1846, with a castle housing the United States' first and greatest cultural and scientific establishment."--BOOK JACKET.
