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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810223703321

Autore

Danoff Brian

Titolo

Educating democracy [[electronic resource] ] : Alexis de Tocqueville and leadership in America / / Brian Danoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4384-2963-0

1-4416-3543-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

320.973

Soggetti

Citizenship - Study and teaching - United States

Civics - Study and teaching - United States

Democracy - Study and teaching - United States

Education - Aims and objectives - United States

Political leadership - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tocqueville on leadership and the education of democracy -- The antifederalists and Tocqueville on democratic leadership and democratic authority -- Lincoln and Tocqueville on democratic leadership and self-interest properly understood -- Wilson and Tocqueville on leadership and the "character foundations of American democracy" -- The vocation of the democratic moralist : Putnam, Tocqueville, and the education of democracy today.

Sommario/riassunto

Revisionist analysis of the role of strong leadership in democracies, drawing primarily upon the work of Alexis de Tocqueville.