LEADER 04207nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910786138003321 005 20230331230626.0 010 $a0-300-18984-2 010 $a1-283-90642-2 010 $a0-300-18280-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300189841 035 $a(CKB)2670000000334001 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10633379 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000782615 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11455986 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000782615 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10745937 035 $a(PQKB)10045778 035 $a(DE-B1597)486248 035 $a(OCoLC)1024004964 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300189841 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421099 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10633379 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421892 035 $a(OCoLC)923601748 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421099 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7023168 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000334001 100 $a20120918d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmbition, a history$b[electronic resource] $efrom vice to virtue /$fWilliam Casey King 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom Vice to Christian Sin -- Ambition as Sin in Early Modern English Culture : Perilous Acts of Self-Elevation, Subversive Acts of Self-Negation -- The Plague and Countervailing Passions -- Harnessing Ambition in the Age of Exploration -- Epilogue. 330 $aFrom rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition fuels the American Dream. Americans are driven by ambition. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous vice, everything from "a canker on the soul" to the impetus for original sin. This engaging book explores ambition's surprising transformation, tracing attitudes from classical antiquity to early modern Europe to the New World and America's founding. From this broad historical perspective, William Casey King deepens our understanding of the American mythos and offers a striking reinterpretation of the introduction to the Declaration of Independence.Through an innovative array of sources and authors-Aquinas, Dante, Machiavelli, the Geneva Bible, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, and many others-King demonstrates that a transformed view of ambition became possible the moment Europe realized that Columbus had discovered not a new route but a new world. In addition the author argues that reconstituting ambition as a virtue was a necessary precondition of the American republic. The book suggests that even in the twenty-first century, ambition has never fully lost its ties to vice and continues to exhibit a dual nature, positive or negative depending upon the ends, the means, and the individual involved. 606 $aAmbition$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAmbition$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNational characteristics, American$xHistory 606 $aChristianity and culture$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSocial values$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSocial change$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAmbition$xSocial aspects$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aChristianity and culture$zEngland$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$yTo 1783 607 $aEngland$xCivilization 615 0$aAmbition$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aAmbition$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American$xHistory. 615 0$aChristianity and culture$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial values$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory. 615 0$aAmbition$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aChristianity and culture$xHistory. 676 $a973 700 $aKing$b Casey$g(William Casey)$01537484 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786138003321 996 $aAmbition, a history$93786803 997 $aUNINA