TY  - GEN
T1  - Ambition, a history : from vice to virtue
A1  - King, Casey (William Casey)
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn823896931
AB  - Is "ambitious" a compliment' It depends: "[A] masterpiece of intellectual and cultural history."'David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World From rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition fuels the American Dream. 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
OP  - 248
CN  - E162 .K59 2013
SN  - 9780300189841
SN  - 0300189842
SN  - 9781283906425
SN  - 1283906422
SN  - 9780300182804
SN  - 0300182805
KW  - United States : Civilization : To 1783.
KW  - Ambition : Political aspects : United States : History.
KW  - Ambition : Social aspects : United States : History.
KW  - National characteristics, American : History.
KW  - Christianity and culture : United States : History.
KW  - Social values : United States : History.
KW  - Social change : United States : History.
KW  - England : Civilization.
KW  - Ambition : Social aspects : England : History.
KW  - Christianity and culture : England : History.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Ambition : Aspect politique : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Ambition : Aspect social : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Christianisme et civilisation : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Valeurs sociales : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Ambition : Aspect social : Angleterre : Histoire.
KW  - Christianisme et civilisation : Angleterre : Histoire.
KW  - États-Unis : Civilisation : Jusqu'à 1783.
KW  - Angleterre : Civilisation.
KW  - Livres numériques.
KW  - e-books.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : General.
KW  - HISTORY : Social History.
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Civilization
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - Social change
KW  - Social values
KW  - England
KW  - United States
KW  - To 1783
KW  - History
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