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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: American dialogue
    sub title: the founders and us
  name:
    name part: Ellis, Joseph J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 283 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
  abstract: What would the founders think? We live in a divided America that is currently incapable of sustained argument and is feeling unsure of its destiny. Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the recent best-selling The Quartet, explores anew four of our most prominent founders, in each instance searching for patterns and principles that bring the lamp of experience to our contemporary dilemmas. Ellis discusses Thomas Jefferson and racism, John Adams and economic inequality, James Madison and constitutional law, George Washington and foreign policy. Just as the founders went back to the Greek and Roman classics for seasoned wisdom in their time, Ellis takes us back to America's founders, our classics. In his compelling narrative voice, Ellis confronts the obstacles blocking discussions about our emerging multiracial society, the inherent inequalities of a global economy, the original meaning of the founders' words and the impossible obligations confronting the one superpower once the moral certainties provided by the Cold War have disappeared. Ellis reminds us that the founders' greatest legacy lies not in providing political answers but in helping us find a better way to frame the question.
  table of contents: Preface: My self-evident truth -- RACE. Then: Thomas Jefferson ; Now: Abiding backlash -- EQUALITY. Then: John Adams ; Now: Our gilded age -- LAW. Then: James Madison ; Now: Immaculate misconceptions -- ABROAD. Then: George Washington ; Now: At peace with war -- Epilogue: Leadership.
  target audience: adult
  note: Joseph J. Ellis.
  note: "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Founding Fathers of the United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1775-1783
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 2017-
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: United States
    topic: Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: History & Theory
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    topic: Revolutionary
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Revolutionary
  classification: E183 .E436 2018
  classification: 973.3
  identifier: 9780385353427
  identifier: 0385353421
  identifier: 9780385353434
  identifier: 2017050340
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180221
    record change date: 20190122134126.0
    record identifier: in00003995885