And we can jump into our second panel, which is devoted Harvey Mansfields work on tocqueville and america. I think of the extraordinary things about harveys writing in this area is the way that he combines the study of the spirit of american political life with the study of Something Like the structure of american Political Part of his insight maybe, the most significant part, the connection that he finds between the two, the way that he finds deep in the history of political philosophy, the foundations of modern ideas, executive power of Political Parties, and the separation of powers. So of what we identify with the american way of government and roots it in the tradition of political philosophy in a way very unusual and very illuminating. And harvey connects these over and over again with the spirit American Life and the American National character. One obvious guide for doing that kind of thing is, of course, alexis de tocqueville and has made tocqueville one of his foremost object
Most significant part, the connection that he finds between the two, the way that he finds deep in the history of political philosophy, the foundations of modern ideas, executive power of political parties, and the separation of powers. So of what we identify with the american way of government and roots it in the tradition of political philosophy in a way very unusual and very illuminating. And harvey connects these over and over again with the spirit American Life and the American National character. One obvious guide for doing that kind of thing is, of course, alexis de tocqueville and has made tocqueville one of his foremost objects, maybe most notably in the fantastic translation of democracy in that he undertook, with his late wife, gilbert winthrop, in the superb to that translation, which really stands on its own as a kind of interpretive essay on tocqueville and in a lot of subsequent writing about tocqueville in america in this century, in the that opening essay to the transl
Separation of powers. So of what we identify with the american way of government and roots it in the tradition of political philosophy in a way very unusual and very illuminating. And harvey connects these over and over again with the spirit American Life and the American National character. One obvious guide for doing that kind of thing is, of course, alexis de tocqueville and has made tocqueville one of his foremost objects, maybe most notably in the fantastic translation of democracy in that he undertook, with his late wife, gilbert winthrop, in the superb to that translation, which really stands on its own as a kind of interpretive essay on tocqueville and in a lot of subsequent writing about tocqueville in america in this century, in the that opening essay to the translation army describes democracy in america as at once the best book ever written on democracy and the best ever written on america. Very high praise and our task in this panel is maybe to pass that just a little thin
Deep in the history of political philosophy, the foundations of modern ideas, executive power of political parties, and the separation of powers. So of what we identify with the american way of government and roots it in the tradition of political philosophy in a way very unusual and very illuminating. And harvey connects these over and over again with the spirit American Life and the American National character. One obvious guide for doing that kind of thing is, of course, alexis de tocqueville and has made tocqueville one of his foremost objects, maybe most notably in the fantastic translation of democracy in that he undertook, with his late wife, gilbert winthrop, in the superb to that translation, which really stands on its own as a kind of interpretive essay on tocqueville and in a lot of subsequent writing about tocqueville in america in this century, in the that opening essay to the translation army describes democracy in america as at once the best book ever written on democrac
The book. You have a question . Obviously casualties at the highest levels. It does seem again and again that they lost critical players. Nobody to replace them. At the beginning of the war was their training can malcolm. The kind of had that system. Regimental commanders moved up to brigade. They just kept promoting people. Some really good commanders emerged. For example, on the confederate side john gordon became commanded one of lease. He was a warrior. Some people have a military bill that had emerged. There were a lot of failures. People came in from the regular army with some rank. They just were not up to it. There was a real sorting process confederates really felt by the end of the war the attrition of their officers more than union. That was their great advantage at the beginning of the war. They had better leaders. By the end those people, many of them are gone. And so lee took, as i was saying, more and more. [inaudible conversations] oh, i am sorry. Kind of a silly questi