[PDF] The Statesman As Thinker eBook

Author : Daniel J. Mahoney
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1641772425

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In The Statesman as Thinker, Daniel J. Mahoney provides thoughtful and elegant portraits of statesmen who struggled to preserve freedom during times of crisis: Cicero using all the powers of rhetoric to preserve republican liberty in Rome against Caesar’s encroaching autocracy; Burke defending ordered liberty against Jacobin tyranny in revolutionary France; Tocqueville defending liberty and human dignity against blind reaction, democratic impatience, and revolutionary fanaticism; Lincoln preserving the American republic and putting an end to chattel slavery; Churchill defending liberty and law and opposing Nazi and Communist despotism; de Gaulle defending the honor of France during World War II; and Havel fighting Communism before 1989 and then leading the Czech Republic with dignity and grace. Mahoney makes sense of the mixture of magnanimity and moderation that defines the statesman as thinker at his or her best. That admirable mixture of greatness, courage, and moderation owes much to classical and Christian wisdom and to the noble desire to protect the inheritance of civilization against rapacious and destructive despotic regimes and ideologies.

Author : Henry Taylor
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 1992-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0275942856

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Sir Henry Taylor's classic treatise The Statesman, originally published in 1836, is the first modern book to be devoted to the subject of public administration. It has been read and studied by generations for its keen insights into the relationship between public administrators and elected officials in a democracy. It has also been appreciated for its wit. The present volume is the first twentieth-century edition to be based on the revised and expanded text that Taylor published in 1878 as part of his Collected Works. It is also the first edition to be fully annotated. The lengthy editors' introduction to this volume emphasizes the relevance of Taylor's thought to the fundamental issues of public administration in the contemporary United States. The editors demonstrate the superiority of Taylor's understanding of the relationship between politics and administration to the widely accepted model of that relation that derives from the thought of Woodrow Wilson. Above all, they argue, Taylor's insights merit our attention because they indicate how a properly organized civil service can be a locus of statesmanship in a democracy, fulfilling the intentions of the authors of the American Constitution in a contemporary context that differs significantly from what the Founders themselves anticipated.

Author : Ambassador David Abshire
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Ambassadors
ISBN : 9781538109212

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"From army days, to working with lawmakers for the State Department, to international diplomacy, to his time as counselor to presidents, David Abshire was a fixture in the effort to make America a superpower with a higher purpose"--

Author : Henry Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258956257

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This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.

Author : Henry Taylor
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
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ISBN : 9781341971990

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