Politics and the Public Interest in the Seventeenth CenturyA critical analysis of the domestic and foreign policies of the United States president who assumed office at a difficult moment in history. |
Contents
HOBBESIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE PUBLIC | 55 |
ALTRUISM AND INTEREST IN HARRINGTON | 109 |
CONSCIENCE AND INTEREST AFTER | 153 |
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| Title | Politics and the Public Interest in the Seventeenth Century Studies in political history, ISSN 0081-8410 |
| Author | John Alexander Wilson Gunn |
| Publisher | Routledge & K. Paul, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 0710061749, 9780710061744 |
| Length | 355 pages |
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