{"product_id":"the-american-soul-isbn-9781585422265","title":"The American Soul","description":"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. \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\"If ever a work of philosophical ideas arrived at a time when human events make it not only timely but urgently relevant, The American Soul is such a book.\" -\u003cb\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"So literate it comes close to poetry...[This] book makes you think and rethink most of the ideas you ever had about the stunning people who give American history both its exceptionalism and its commonalities.\" -\u003cb\u003eMartin Peretz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe American Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhy Can’t We Be Good?\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMoney and the Meaning of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Jacob Needleman is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, and former Director of the Center for the Study of New Religions at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, CA.","brand":"Tarcher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303153422565,"sku":"NP9781585422265","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781585422265.jpg?v=1767738069","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-american-soul-isbn-9781585422265","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}