The historian as moralist

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A lot of the book was a history of Darwin’s own thinking, which Himmelfarb traced with an exquisite sensitivity for how the life of an intellectual really works and for the power of : Yuval Levin. The historian as moralist The fact is that the book is a masterpiece, and reading it in light of her later work leaves the reader simply stunned by the degree to which the core concepts that.

Robert Christopher Lasch (–) was an American historian, moralist, and social critic who was a history professor at the University of sought to use history as a tool to awaken American society to the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and mater: Harvard University, Columbia University.

“Historian and moralist”—Lord Acton is the only individual in the entire Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to receive that curious description. A unique individual, however, warrants a unique description, and Lord Acton was one of the most profound and peculiar individuals of the Victorian era.

The essays in this. Patricia O'Toole continues this pattern with her work The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made. It is an outstanding account of the life and presidential activity of the 28th President of the United States that is well-researched and deeply and brilliantly analytical.

The book draws from a number of contemporary historical /5(17). “Historian and moralist”—Lord Acton is the only individual in the entire Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to receive that curious description. A unique individual, however, warrants a unique description, and Lord Acton was one of the most profound and peculiar individuals of the Victorian : Paperback.

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history. The book sold more copies on its first day in print than The Da Vinci Code –. Historian Patricia O'Toole chronicles the political career of President Woodrow Wilson.

Biographer Patricia O’Toole talked about her book, The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made. The book’s title, The Moralist, suggests the author’s take on Wilson’s political achievements. O’Toole states that his moral ideology was “more secular than religious, the effect of his.

Woodrow Wilson 'had really great triumphs and really spectacular defeats, and they've been important and lasting,' says historian Patricia O'Toole, author of. The Historian as Moralist: Celebrating the Life of Gertrude Himmelfarb Politics This is a split board - You can return to the Split List for other boards.

This review essay summarizes Balmaceda's main arguments, raises a question about historians' own virtus, and draws some implications from the book for the study of scholarly personae.

Did the persona of the historian as a public moralist, such as is known from nineteenth‐century Europe, originate in. The histories of Roman senator Cornelius Tacitus constitute the most influential examination of tyranny, political behavior and public morality from the classical age. For centuries these portraits of courageous martyrs to freedom, of paranoid tyrants, and of sycophantic flatteres and informers shaped modern political attitudes.

Ronald Mellor provides a compelling analysis of the ideas of the. Historian Patricia O'Toole chronicles the political career of President Woodrow Wilson at the 18th annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Valerius Maximus, (flourished ad 30), Roman historian and moralist who wrote an important book of historical anecdotes for the use of rhetoricians. Born into a poor family, Valerius Maximus owed everything to Sextus Pompeius (consul ad 14 and proconsul of Asia), his friend and patron, whom he accompanied to the East about ad 24/ Historian and Moralist THE MISINTERPRETATION OF MAN.

Studies in European Thought of the Nineteenth Century. By Paul Roubiczek. Scribner's. $ IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. By Richard Weaver. University of Chicago.

$ BOTH Roubiczek and Weaver argue that what the first calls, in facile cliche, 'the spiritual crisis of our time," is the. The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made by Patricia O'Toole is a detailed history of Wilson's political career.

OToole is the author of five books, including When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House, and The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and 4/5(43).

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Learn more. Patricia O’Toole, author of The Moralist, a new biography of Woodrow Wilson, reveals a complicated portrait of America’s 28th president.

O’Toole describes Wilson as a complex man who was comfortable with segregation, firmly set on building international alliances and a skilled orator whose deteriorating health resulted in his wife running the country behind the scenes in the final [ ].

Patricia O’Toole is the author of five books, including The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made, When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House, and The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

THE MORALIST: WOODROW WILSON AND THE WORLD HE MADE. By Patricia O’Toole. Simon & Schuster, $35, pages. Even as a young man, his curiosity seldom went past “book learning.” As a.In this vein, Livy wrote his monumental History of Rome with the idea of using what he saw as the old civic virtues of Rome's past as an example to inspire his decadent contemporaries.

In this sense, Livy was as much a moralist as he was a historian. But, moralist or historian, he wrote very good books.