Crispin Sartwell. farthest Virtue:...

Crispin Sartwell. farthest Virtue: Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives. Albany: SUNYP 2003 141 pp ISBN 0-7914-5880-6 $1695

This work offers five essays on five American lives, read in bourns of an inquiry into the virtues of religious leadership and public life. The biographical bring under rules are a fascinatingly mixed bunch: Emma Goldman and Voltairine de Cleyre early-twentieth hundred anarchists; Arizona conservative Barry Goldwater; the Lakota Sioux medicine man Lame Deer; and Malcolm X Each has been chosen to provide a biographical adjoining matter for the discussion of