Some praise for Ambition, A History (Yale University Press, 2013)
“An important book [that] helps us understand where we have been and where we are going at a crucial moment for our culture and our role in the world.” –Lawrence H. Summers, Former Secretary of the Treasury of the United Sates
“[A] masterpiece of cultural and intellectual history…written with clarity and elegance..combin[ing] sources and discoveries with larger economic and political contexts usually missing from the history of ideas.” —David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor Emeritus, Yale University
“Truly groundbreaking, vital, profound, deeply nuanced and subtle…One of the most important and original [works] I’ve read.” —John Stauffer, Professor of English, Harvard University
“Extremely important, deeply researched, very well written, and, yes, extraordinarily ambitious.”—Steven Mintz, Columbia University
This meeting is free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 5 p.m. with a reception.