Description: 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.
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Publication Name: The Pursuit of Happiness
Book Title: The Pursuit of Happiness : How Classical Writers on Virtue ...
Item Length: 9 in
Original Language: English
Format: Hardcover
Unit Type: Unit
ISBN: 9781668002476
Release Year: 2024
Language: English
Item Height: 1.2 in
Features: Dust Jacket
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
Unit Quantity: 1
Item Width: 6 in
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Title: The Pursuit of Happiness
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Edition: First Edition
Subtitle: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founder
Publication Year: 2024
EAN: 9781668002476
Author: Jeffrey Rosen
Genre: Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, History
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 17.9 Oz
Release Date: 02/13/2024
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
