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Ever since Douglass Adair convincingly demonstrated that a love of
fame was central to the American founding, political scientists and
historians have started to view the founders and their acts in a
new light. In The Noblest Minds, ten distinguished scholars examine
this passion for fame and honor and demonstrate for the first time
its significance in the development of American democracy. The
first two-thirds of the book is devoted to essays on individual
founders, as the contributors consider the role of fame in the
lives and political characters of Washington, Franklin, Madison,
Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, and Marshall. The remaining chapters
analyze the founders' theoretical accomplishment in reviving
political science, and explore the problem of honor in the modern
world. Political scientists and American historians alike will find
this book to be valuable and illuminating. What made the founding
generation of American statesmen so outstanding? To answer this
question, The Noblest Minds brings together a distinguished group
of historians and political scientists to evaluate a neglected but
compelling theory advanced nearly four decades ago by Douglass
Adair. Adair argued that it was the 'love of fame' that moved many
of the leading lights of the founding generation. Adair's thesis is
the starting point for a series of searching essays on the role of
fame in the lives of Adams, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison,
Marshall, and Washington. These profiles also provide wide-ranging
historical and philosophical reflections on the question of fame.
What emerges from these essays is a more complex picture of the
founding generation than that presented by Adair. While
acknowledging the role of the love of fame, The Noblest Minds
argues for the influence of other concerns such as honor, virtue,
and the cause of liberty. This more complex picture of the founding
generation provides a unique and rewarding vantage point from which
to consider the question of 'character' in politics, which looms so
large in contemporary political debate. It illuminates the
differences between true fame and mere celebrity in such a way as
to point to considerations that transcend both. Political
scientists and American historians alike will find this book to be
valuable and illuminating.
An international collection of the world's most distinguished
historians and political philosophers takes a fresh look at the
political, legal, and philosophical contributions of Thomas
Jefferson. The insightful essays analyze and illuminate the
sophisticated layers of the political and legal thought of
America's most influential and intellectually complex Founder. With
contributors that include Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Morton Frisch,
Paul Rahe, James Stoner, Robert K. Faulkner, John Zvesper, Howard
Temperly, Robert A. Rutland, Raoul Berger, Colin Bonwick, Peter
Parish, Jeffrey Sedgwick, J. R. Pole, Richard King, and Jean M.
Yarborough, this is essential reading for historians and political
philosophers.
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