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In her incisive history, Kathleen D. McCarthy explores the impact of philanthropy - both giving and volunteerism - on America from 1700 to 1865. What results is a vital reevaluation of public life during the pivotal decades leading up to the Civil War.

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"A tour de force.... [Modern philanthropists] should all read American Creed to be reminded of the traditional impulses and motives that inspired earlier American philanthropists, large and small, to use their money aggressively in the creation and defense of social justice." - Mark Dowie, Los Angeles Times; "While her riveting history of civil society from the founding to the Civil War focuses on philanthropy and religion, it is laced with keen insights into the place of civil disorder, repression, chivalry, and feminism in the American social order. This is history at its best. A work that is truly pertinent to our times." - Benjamin Barber"

American Creed Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/07/2005
      ISBN13: 9780226562018, 978-0226562018
      ISBN10: 0226562018
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In her incisive history, Kathleen D. McCarthy explores the impact of philanthropy - both giving and volunteerism - on America from 1700 to 1865. What results is a vital reevaluation of public life during the pivotal decades leading up to the Civil War.

      Trade Review
      "A tour de force.... [Modern philanthropists] should all read American Creed to be reminded of the traditional impulses and motives that inspired earlier American philanthropists, large and small, to use their money aggressively in the creation and defense of social justice." - Mark Dowie, Los Angeles Times; "While her riveting history of civil society from the founding to the Civil War focuses on philanthropy and religion, it is laced with keen insights into the place of civil disorder, repression, chivalry, and feminism in the American social order. This is history at its best. A work that is truly pertinent to our times." - Benjamin Barber"

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