The American Soul
Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders| By: | Jacob Needleman |
| Publisher: | Penguin US |
| Print ISBN: | 9781585422265 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781440650444 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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 nation of spiritual values will in the years ahead require Needleman's work as a point of reference.