TY - BOOK AU - Faulkner,Robert K. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The case for greatness: honorable ambition and its critics AV - BJ1533.A4 F38 2007 U1 - 179/.9 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New Haven [Conn.] PB - Yale University Press KW - Ambition KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index; Introduction: Honorable statesmen and obscuring theories -- The gentleman-statesman : Aristotle's (complicated) great-souled man -- Imperial ambition in free politics : the problem of Thucydides' Alcibiades -- The soul of grand ambition : Alcibiades cross-examined by Socrates -- Imperial grandeur and imperial hollowness : Xenophon's Cyrus the Great -- Obscuring the truly great : Washington and modern theories of fame -- Honorable greatness denied (1) : the egalitarian web -- Honorable greatness denied (2) : the premises; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3420969 ER -