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

Type

Book

Authors

John Patrick Diggins

ISBN 10

0226148777

ISBN 13

9780226148779

Tags

United States, World, Conservatism & Liberalism, Political Science, History

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. - from Amzon

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