Classical antiquity and the politics of America
Subtitle: from George Washington to George W. Bush
By: edited by Michael Meckler.
Contributors: Meckler, Michael.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Waco, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781932792324
Subjects: Civilization, Classical -- Influence.; United States -- Politics and government.; United States -- Civilization -- Classical influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Classical education in colonial America / William J. Ziobro; title: Classical antiquity and early conceptions of the United States Senate / Carl J. Richard; title: Classical oratory and fears of demagoguery in the Antebellum Era / Caroline Winterer; title: William Sanders Scarborough and the politics of classical education for African Americans / Michele Valerie Ronnick; title: The rise of populism, the decline of classical education, and the Seventeenth Amendment / Michael Meckler; title: William Linn Westermann at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 / John Milton Cooper; title: The world of Moses Finkelstein : the year 1939 in M. I. Finley's development as a historian / Daniel P. Tompkins; title: Thucydides and the Cold War / Lawrence A. Tritle; title: Senator Robert C. Byrd and the wisdom of the ancients / Robert F. Maddox; title: Platonism in high places : Leo Strauss, George W. Bush, and the response to 9/11 / Neil G. Robertson.