Eckart Goebel: Ambition: An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise [2022] paperback WWI Based on first-hand research in

Based on first-hand research in America

aim at a life of responsibility and meaning

But still the shadows lengthen and still the Forsaken grow in strength

Her mother vanished all at once

as well as the stylistic flair of rapid brushstrokes upon canvas

Eckart Goebel: Ambition: An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise [2022] paperback WWI Based on first-hand research inWe describe people who are "consumed" or "devoured" by ambition as if by a predator or an out of control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the