Ambition, A History: From Vice to Virtue
- ISBN-10
- 0300182805
- ISBN-13
- 9780300182804
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-29
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- William Casey King
Description
Looks at how ambition, once considered a vice, became a celebrated virtue that defines American character.
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