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The Pursuit of Happiness by Jeffrey Rosen (HC/DJ/2024)

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

Signed: No

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

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