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005			20240726105330.0
008			130110s2013 ctua ob 001 0 eng d
010			_z2012034912
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020			_a9780300189841 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aE162 _b.A435 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aKing, Casey _q(William Casey), _e1
245	1	0	_aAmbition, a history : _bfrom vice to virtue / _cWilliam Casey King.
260			_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
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505	0	0	_aFrom vice to Christian sin -- _tAmbition as sin in early modern English culture : Perilous acts of self-elevation, Subversive acts of self-negation -- _tThe plague and countervailing passions -- _tHarnessing ambition in the age of exploration -- _tEpilogue.
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520	0		_aIs "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
650		0	_aAmbition _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aAmbition _xSocial aspects _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, American _xHistory.
650		0	_aChristianity and culture _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aSocial values _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aSocial change _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aAmbition _xSocial aspects _zEngland _xHistory.
650		0	_aChristianity and culture _zEngland _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=518266&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell