Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume III
Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime
By Paul A. Rahe
410 pp., 6 x 9
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4475-5
Published: August 1994 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-1742-8
Published: October 2017 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-6492-5
Published: October 2017
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Paul A. Rahe is professor of history at the University of Tulsa.
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"Rahe has written a seminal work that will for a long time put students of political thought in general, and of the ideas of the American founding in particular, in his debt. In a way that even evokes comparison with such masterworks of philosophy, history, and social science, as those of Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Baron de Montesquieu, Rahe brings to our contemplation the complex fabric of republican political inquiry from Plato to Thomas Jefferson."--Ralph Ketcham, William and Mary Quarterly
"[An] extraordinary book. . . . It is a great achievement and will stay as a landmark."--Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Spectator (London)
"A work of magisterial erudition."--Journal of American History
"This extraordinary book enters the generation-old controversy concerning the influence of classical republicanism on the American Revolution. . . . Rahe's text is a splendid series of learned lectures for interested citizens, while his notes are a home school course for graduate study in the foundation of the American republic."--Journal of the Early Republic
"This is the first comprehensive study of republicanism, ancient and modern, written for our time. Among its many virtues is a rediscovery of the difference between ancient and modern republicanism and a critique of the notion of civic humanism."--Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University
"The subject is enormously important and terribly difficult, requiring a detailed knowledge of the ancient world, of the thinking and experience of the Founding Fathers of the American republic, and of the entire history of western political thought through the eighteenth century. Rahe has that knowledge, an original and convincing understanding of the realities and thinking of life in ancient Greece, and a powerful and compelling thesis that explains how ancient republican ideas have changed almost totally as they have been transformed into the modern republic."--Donald Kagan, Yale University