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  • Published: 2 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9781440650444
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

The American Soul

Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders





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.

  • Published: 2 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9781440650444
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

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