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.
- ISBN10 1585422266
- ISBN13 9781585422265
- Publish Date 2 June 2003 (first published 15 February 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Jeremy P Tarcher
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 400
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781585422265