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Educating democracy : Alexis de Tocqueville and leadership in America / Brian Danoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danoff, Brian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--Study and teaching--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Civics--Study and teaching--United States.
- Civics.
- Democracy--Study and teaching--United States.
- Democracy.
- Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education.
- Political leadership--United States--History.
- Political leadership.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859--Influence.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Revisionist analysis of the role of strong leadership in democracies, drawing primarily upon the work of Alexis de Tocqueville.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438429632
- 1438429630
- 9781441635433
- 1441635432
- OCLC:
- 560600108
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