Educating democracy : Alexis de Tocqueville and leadership in America / / Brian Danoff
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| Autore: |
Danoff Brian
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| Titolo: |
Educating democracy : Alexis de Tocqueville and leadership in America / / Brian Danoff
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.973 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Educating democracy |
| ISBN: | 9781438429632 |
| 1438429630 | |
| 9781441635433 | |
| 1441635432 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910963708903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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