It has its place.(The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics)(Book review)

From: National Review | Date: February 25, 2008| Author: Anderson, Brian C. | Copyright information

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The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics, by Robert Faulkner (Yale, 264 pp., $30)

POLITICAL ambition has a bad reputation these days. Not least because the "professional politician" tends to wear out his welcome quickly: Our historically unprecedented media sensorium, with its unceasing coverage and analysis, its exposes and lightning bolts of enthusiasm, makes it hard for any political actor to sustain popular admirat...

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