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Alexis de Tocqueville and the art of democratic statesmanship / edited by Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr..
- Title
- Alexis de Tocqueville and the art of democratic statesmanship / edited by Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr..
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | JC229.T8 A425 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 341 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Speech given to the annual public meeting of the academy of moral and political sciences on April 3, 1852 / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Leading by leaving / Susan McWilliams -- Aristotle and Tocqueville on statesmanship / Aristide Tessitore -- Machiavelli and Tocqueville on majority tyranny / Khalil M. Habib -- Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and the politics of mores / F. Flagg Taylor IV -- Intellectuals and statesmanship? Tocqueville, Oakeshott, and the distinction between theoretical and practical knowledge / Richard Boyd and Conor Williams -- Tocqueville's view of the American presidency and the limits of democratic statesmanship / William B. Parsons, Jr. -- Changing the people, not simply the president : the limitations and possibilities of the Obama presidency, in Tocquevillian perspective / Thad Williamson -- Moderating the penal state through citizen participation : a neo-Tocquevillian perspective on court professionals and juries in a democracy / Albert W. Dzur -- From associations to organizations : Tocqueville, NGOs, and the colonization of civic leadership / Derek Barker -- The tragedy of American progress : Alexis de Tocqueville and Willa Cather's My Àntonia / Jon D. Schaff -- The Catholic church in the modern world : a Tocquevillian analysis of Vatican II / L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. -- Tocqueville on how to praise the Puritans today / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Tocqueville's foreign policy of moderation and democracy expansion / Paul Carrese -- The twofold challenge for democratic culture in our time / Thomas L. Pangle.
- ISBN
- 9780739145296 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739145290 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780739145302 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0739145304 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010039838
- OCLC
- 664451072
- SCSB-10512686
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library