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Executive Power and the Passion for Virtue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Harvey C. Mansfield Jr
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr
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Harvard University
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To be taken seriously is the hope of a serious author, next to which being agreed with is a petty affair. If this sentiment sounds inhuman, and too good to be true, it is because it abstracts from the desire for recognition, which can take the form of desire for political power. Sheldon Wolin takes my book Taming the Prince1 seriously as—as if it were!—an important political influence. He flatters the all-too-human side of my soul by fastening on the book's conclusion and working backwards from that.

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Review and Exchange: Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., Taming the Prince
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Studies in American Political Development , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , Spring 1992 , pp. 217 - 221
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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References

1. Mansfield, Harvey C. Jr, Taming the Prince (The Free Press: New York, 1989)Google Scholar.

2. Mansfield, Harvey C. Jr,America's Constitutional Soul (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991)Google Scholar.