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.
#3331586 in Books Cumberland House 2008-04-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.96 x 1.01 x 6.06l; 1.15 #File Name: 1581826311384 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy CustomerBook was as described and service met expectations0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy LauraAn interesting look at some details others miss1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Civil War controversiesBy Frederick P. LeonardIn the third chapter on the Peninsula Campaign; H Donald Winkler blames Stanton and the Radical Republicans for McClellan's failures. In Chapter Four on the The Seven Days Battles of the Peninsula Campaign he calls McClellan the Federal goat for the missed opportunities to end the war.He seems to have an issue with Stanton. It's apparent that nothing anyone could do short of sending McClellan a half million more men would get McClellan to act and maybe that would not been enough. McClellan was the wrong man for the job. A better general would have ended the war and saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Had the war ended in 1862 men like my great-grandfather would not have been wounded. His wounds never completely healed and he suffered with them for the remainder of his life. My great-grandfather also was captured by the rebels after being wounded but fortunately he was later freed when the Federals over ran the Rebels who were holding him.
