The American Soul
Author: Needleman, Jacob
ISBN: 9781585422265
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 02 Jun 2003
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
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.p>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./p>
ISBN: 9781585422265
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 02 Jun 2003
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
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.p>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./p>
