Fame and the founding fathers : essays

Author(s)

    • Adair, Douglass
    • Colbourn, Trevor
    • Robbins, Caroline
    • Shalhope, Robert E.

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Fame and the founding fathers : essays

by Douglas Adair ; edited by Trevor Colbourn ; with a personal memoir by Caroline Robbins ; and a bibliographical essay by Robert E. Shalhope

Liberty Fund, c1974

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780865971929

Description

The fifteen articles, essays, notes and documents gathered in this collection showcase Adair's extraordinary ability to enter emphatically into the experience and ideology of the Founding Fathers while at the same time writing about them critically and movingly.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780865971936

Description

It used to be that everyone read the "notorious" Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733). He was a great satirist and came to have a profound impact on economics, ethics and social philosophy. "The Fable of the Bees" begins with a poem and continues with a number of essays and dialogues. It is all tied together by the startling and original idea that "private vices" (self-interest) lead to "publick benefits" (the development and operation of society).

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