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

✍ Scribed by John Patrick Diggins

Publisher: Harpercollins
Year: 1984
Tongue: English
Leaves: 423
Edition: First Edition
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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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