The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders
by Jacob Needleman
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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 show more nation of spiritual values will in the years ahead require Needleman's work as a point of reference. show lessTags
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Good writing and a very different point of view of U.S.history's most important leaders. A little dense though.
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Jacob Needleman is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University, and the former director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley
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