Flattery and the history of political thought: that glib and oily art
"Suffer no man to be king": friendship, liberty, and status in Roman political thought -- Without "superfluous ornament": Castiglione, Machiavelli, and the performance of counsel -- "The monarch's plague": the problem of flattery and Hobbes' contingently unitary sovereign -- "The bewitching engine": Mandeville and Smith on flattery, praise, and the origins of language -- "Flattering to young ambitious minds": representing America in the ratification debates