Table of Contents:
“…-- The power of colonial classicism -- Washington studies how to rise in colonial
society -- John Adams aims to become an
American Cicero -- Jefferson blooms at William & Mary -- Madison breaks away to Princeton -- Adams and the fuse of rebellion -- Jefferson's declaration of the "
American mind" -- Washington: the noblest Roman of them all -- The war strains the classical model -- From a difficult war to an uneasy
peace -- Madison and the Constitution: balancing vice with vice -- The Classical vision smashes into
American reality -- The revolution of 1800: the people, not the plebes -- The end of
American classicism -- Epilogue: What we can do -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: The Declaration of Independence.…”
Call Number: JA84.U5 R487 2020
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