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Humility : an unlikely biography of America's greatest virtue /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bobb, David J., 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Thomas Nelson Books/ An imprint of Thomas Nelson, [2013]
Subjects:
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
Politicians > United States > Biography.
United States > Biography.
Humility > Case studies.
Humility > Political aspects > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783.
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1900.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Early Life
  • Benjamin Franklin's Dilemma
  • Jesus and Socrates
  • The City of the Humble and the City of the Proud
  • Part II. Trials and Temptations
  • George Washington
  • James Madison
  • Abigail Adams
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Part III. An Age of Arrogance
  • The Fragile Brilliance of Glass
  • A Moral Taxonomy.