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- ISBN
- 1668002477
- EAN
- 9781668002476
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Insp...
- Artist
- Rosen, Jeffrey
- Brand
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- Book Title
- Pursuit of Happiness : How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Modern / 18th Century, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Ethics & Moral Philosophy, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Political, Historical
- Item Weight
- 17.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1668002477
ISBN-13
9781668002476
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15061247061
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pursuit of Happiness : How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 18th Century, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Ethics & Moral Philosophy, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
17.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-290733
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Jeffrey Rosen found a 'gap' in his education, such as we all have. In filling it he has written a masterpiece of intellectual history about the Founders, renewing, we can hope, our reading of them and what they read. Here is the enriching story of how 'pursuit of happiness' never meant pleasure or success, but the self-governing quest, always unachieved, of virtue. This brilliant work is very new about very old ideas that refresh the spirit., Jeffrey Rosen's immensely readable and thoughtful book on America's founders makes a strong case that a life invested in understanding the past may in fact be a happier one. There are lessons here for preserving our democracy today., Using the classical virtues prescribed by Benjamin Franklin as a way of organizing his book, Jeffrey Rosen has put together a remarkable collection of fresh and insightful essays on the Founders. Indeed, his book may be the best and most readable introduction to the ideas of the Founders that we have., To understand who we are, we must begin at the beginning--which is precisely what Jeffrey Rosen does in this remarkable and timely book. By exploring how the American Founders viewed virtue and the fabled (and often misunderstood) 'pursuit of happiness,' Rosen offers us a much-needed reminder of the centrality of civic and personal virtue., A delightful, insightful reminder of a truth obvious to the Founders but forgotten by subsequent generations of Americans: that personal happiness and the health of the republic depend on virtue, which in turn requires regular cultivation. Read this timely book for your own benefit and the good of us all., The Founders had no internet to educate them, but they did have advice books, contemporary and ancient. Jeffrey Rosen guides us through them to see what the Founders meant by happiness, and how they hoped to secure it. And, he suggests, we could do the same today.
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Dewey Decimal
973.3
Synopsis
A New York Times bestseller and an "enriching...brilliant" (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass ) examination of what "the pursuit of happiness" meant to our nation's Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy. The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives, and to give us the "best and most readable introduction to the ideas of the Founders that we have" (Gordon Wood, author of Power and Liberty ). By reading the classical Greek and Roman moral philosophers who inspired the Founders, Rosen shows us how they understood the pursuit of happiness as a quest for being good, not feeling good--the pursuit of lifelong virtue, not short-term pleasure. Among those virtues were the habits of industry, temperance, moderation, and sincerity, which the Founders viewed as part of a daily struggle for self-improvement, character development, and calm self-mastery. They believed that political self-government required personal self-government. For all six Founders, the pursuit of virtue was incompatible with enslavement of African Americans, although the Virginians betrayed their own principles. "Immensely readable and thoughtful" (Ken Burns), The Pursuit of Happiness is more than an elucidation of the Declaration's famous phrase; it is a revelatory journey into the minds of the Founders, and a deep, rich, and fresh understanding of the foundation of our democracy.
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E302.5.R67 2024
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