American Soul Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders

Name: American Soul Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders
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ISBN: 9781585422265

ISBN-10: 1585422266

ISBN-13: 9781585422265

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Authors: Jacob Needleman

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The critically acclaimed work that asks: What was the spiritual vision of the founding fathers-and how can we reclaim it today? Looking at the lives of America's founders-including Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin-scholar and bestselling author Jacob Needleman explores their core of inner beliefs; their religious and spiritual sensibilities; and their individual conception of the purpose of life. The founders, Needleman argues, conceived of an "inner democracy": a continual pursuit of wisdom and self-improvement that would undergird the outer democracy in which we live today. Any understanding of America as a nation of spiritual values will in the years ahead require Needleman's work…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/2/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.01" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preamble



The Idea of America



Our America



In the Beginning



Remembering America



The Myth and the Character of George Washington



Thomas Jefferson: Democracy as the Communal Self



Individuality: A Meditation on the Face of Lincoln



The Crimes of America



The American Indian



Slavery and the Story of America



The Two Democracies



The Wound and the Turning



Ephrata: In Search of the Second Democracy



Walt Whitman and the Meaning of America


Conclusion: The America of Our Hopes



The Guardian of the Door



Toward a Community of Conscience


Coda


For Further Reading


Notes