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The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism

By John Patrick Diggins

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
1984
ISBN
0465042430, 9780465042432
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8656036 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
430\423
Time added
2013-07-27 14:36:18

Description

The Lost Soul of American Politics is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Conservatives. Reassessing the motives and intentions of such great political thinkers as Madison, Thoreau, Lincoln, and Emerson, John P. Diggins shows how these men struggled to create an alliance between the politics of self-interest and a religious sense of moral responsibility—a tension that still troubles us today.

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