Faulkner, Robert K.,  1934- <br/><br/>
The case for greatness  honorable ambition and its critics /  [electronic resource] : 
Robert Faulkner. 
 - New Haven [Conn.] :  Yale University Press,  c2007. 
 - xi, 264 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300150278 (electronic bk.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ambition.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BJ1533.A4  / F38 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>179/.9