THE AMERICAN SOUL: REDISCOVERING THE WISDOM OF THE FOUNDERS Hardcover - 2002
by Needleman, Jacob
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The venerated religious scholar and bestselling author of Money and the Meaning of Life provides a history of America from an angle never before conceived
What was the spiritual vision of the founding fathers-and how can we reclaim it today? This inquiry lies at the heart of Jacob Needleman's The American Soul. In mini-biographies of the founders-including Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin-Needleman explores their core inner beliefs, their religious and spiritual sensibilities, and their individual understandings of the purpose of life. The founders, he argues, conceived of an "inner democracy": a continual pursuit of wisdom and self-improvement that would undergird the outer democracy in which we live.
Needleman also explores how the religious and spiritual traditions of the Native Americans, the African slaves, and America's early mystical communities, such as those based in Quakerism, wielded an enormous -and sometimes hidden-impact on the shape of our young nation.
The American Soul gives readers a new conception of what America meant in its founding, and what it can mean today.
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- Title THE AMERICAN SOUL: REDISCOVERING THE WISDOM OF THE FOUNDERS
- Author Needleman, Jacob
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Condition Used - Fine condition in a fine dust jacket.
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Putnams, New York
- Date 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # 7158
- ISBN 9781585421381 / 1585421383
- Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.36 x 1.25 in (23.57 x 16.15 x 3.18 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001046311
- Dewey Decimal Code 973
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