The end of kings : a history of republics and republicans
Tracing the history of republican governments, this study moves from the Hebrew Bible, Solon's Athens and Brutus' Rome to the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, the Watergate proceedings and the Clinton impeachment. He builds up a definition of "republic" on the way.
Print Book, English, ©2000
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2000
History
xxviii, 388 pages ; 23 cm
9780226224824, 0226224821
42080394
1. Introduction: What a republic is and how it was mislaid in America
2. Samuel and Solon: The origins of the republic in tribalism
3. From Brutus to Brutus: The rise and fall of Rome
4. William Tell: The failure of kings in Switzerland
5. Niccolò Machiavelli: The Florentine commune
6. John Calvin: A Republican church
7. John Milton: A commonwealth of saints
8. John Adams and Benjamin Franklin: A Republican Union
9. Maximilien Robespierre: The democratic republic
10. Thaddeus Stevens: The legacy of the America Whigs
11. Léon Gambetta and the Troisième: The Parliamentary Republic
12. Gustav Noske: The Reluctant Republic of Weimer
13. Five Senators: The Republic versus its Presidents
14. Conclusion: Squaring the circles of Polybios
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