CASE FOR GREATNESS

Name: CASE FOR GREATNESS
Price: 29.05 USD
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ISBN: 9780300209730

ISBN-10: 0300209738

ISBN-13: 9780300209730

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The Case for Greatness is a spirited look at political ambition, good and bad, with particular attention to honorable ambition. Robert Faulkner contends that too many modern accounts of leadership slight such things as determination to excel, good judgment, justice, and a sense of honor-the very qualities that distinguish the truly great. And here he offers an attempt to recover a reasonable understanding of excellence, that which distinguishes a Franklin D. Roosevelt and a Lincoln from lesser leaders. Faulkner finds the most telling diagnoses in antiquity and examines closely Aristotle's great-souled man, two accounts of the spectacular and dubious Athenian politician Alcibiades, and the…