Introduction: Honorable statesmen and obscuring theories
The gentleman-statesman : Aristotle's (complicated) great-souled man
Imperial ambition in free politics : the problem of Thucydides' Alcibiades
The soul of grand ambition : Alcibiades cross-examined by Socrates
Imperial grandeur and imperial hollowness : Xenophon's Cyrus the Great
Obscuring the truly great : Washington and modern theories of fame
Honorable greatness denied (1) : the egalitarian web
Honorable greatness denied (2) : the premises.
The case for greatness : honorable ambition and its critics by Robert K. Faulkner. ISBN 9780300123937. Published by Yale University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.