Classical antiquity and the politics of America : from George Washington to George W. Bush
Tracks the movement of classicism throughout US history and illustrates how the ancient Greeks and Romans continue to influence political theory and determine policy in the United States, from the education of the Founders to the War in Iraq.
Kongress San Francisco (Calif.) 2002
x, 231 pages ; 23 cm
9781932792324, 1932792325
69241421
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