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The Lost Soul of American Politics is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Conservatives. Reassessing the motives and intentions of such great political thinkers as Madison, Thoreau, Lincoln, and Emerson, John P. Diggins shows how these men struggled to create an alliance between the politics of self-interest and a religious sense of moral responsibility—a tension that still troubles us today.

The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 15/08/1986
    ISBN13: 9780226148779, 978-0226148779
    ISBN10: 0226148777

    Number of Pages: 424

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    The Lost Soul of American Politics is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Conservatives. Reassessing the motives and intentions of such great political thinkers as Madison, Thoreau, Lincoln, and Emerson, John P. Diggins shows how these men struggled to create an alliance between the politics of self-interest and a religious sense of moral responsibility—a tension that still troubles us today.

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