Michael Lusztig is Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of The Culturalist Challenge to Liberal Republicanism, among other books.

"Professor Lusztig presents a stirring vision of the possibility of heroism in the modern world and the heroes who are already among us—inspiring a better republic by their constant and devoted example."— Mortimer Sellers, editor of Law, Reason, and Emotion

• Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Heroes and Republicans 1. The Epic Hero and the Roots of Republican Governance 2. Justice, Magnanimity, and the Republic 3. Rome and the Limits of Heroic Magnanimity: The Great, the Greatly Good, and the Not So Good 4. The Christian Hero in the Orders of Nature and Grace 5. Romanticism: The Egotistical Sublime and Moral Agency 6. God, Godliness, and the Birth of the Common Hero 7. The American Common Hero Conclusion: What Is a Republican Hero? Notes Works Cited Index

Michael Lusztig is Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of The Culturalist Challenge to Liberal Republicanism, among other books.

"Professor Lusztig presents a stirring vision of the possibility of heroism in the modern world and the heroes who are already among us—inspiring a better republic by their constant and devoted example."— Mortimer Sellers, editor of Law, Reason, and Emotion

• Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Heroes and Republicans 1. The Epic Hero and the Roots of Republican Governance 2. Justice, Magnanimity, and the Republic 3. Rome and the Limits of Heroic Magnanimity: The Great, the Greatly Good, and the Not So Good 4. The Christian Hero in the Orders of Nature and Grace 5. Romanticism: The Egotistical Sublime and Moral Agency 6. God, Godliness, and the Birth of the Common Hero 7. The American Common Hero Conclusion: What Is a Republican Hero? Notes Works Cited Index

Michael Lusztig is Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of The Culturalist Challenge to Liberal Republicanism, among other books.

"Professor Lusztig presents a stirring vision of the possibility of heroism in the modern world and the heroes who are already among us—inspiring a better republic by their constant and devoted example."— Mortimer Sellers, editor of Law, Reason, and Emotion

• Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: Heroes and Republicans 1. The Epic Hero and the Roots of Republican Governance 2. Justice, Magnanimity, and the Republic 3. Rome and the Limits of Heroic Magnanimity: The Great, the Greatly Good, and the Not So Good 4. The Christian Hero in the Orders of Nature and Grace 5. Romanticism: The Egotistical Sublime and Moral Agency 6. God, Godliness, and the Birth of the Common Hero 7. The American Common Hero Conclusion: What Is a Republican Hero? Notes Works Cited Index