James A Joseph

Saved for a Purpose

A Journey from Private Virtues to Public Values

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Produktbeschreibung

James A. Joseph is Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Public Policy at Duke University. Joseph served as the United States Ambassador to South Africa from 1996 to 2000, and as the Under Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior from 1977 to 1981. He was the President and CEO of the Council on Foundations, Vice President of the Cummins Engine Company, and served as Chaplain of the Claremont Colleges. He is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards, including the Order of Good Hope, South Africa’s highest award to a citizen of a foreign country. Joseph is also the author of Leadership as a Way of Being, Remaking America: How the Benevolent Traditions of Many Cultures are Transforming Our National Life, and The Charitable Impulse: Wealth and Social Conscience in Communities and Cultures Outside the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780822358961
• ISBN-10: 0822358964
• Artikelnr.: 41609985

Autorenporträt

James A. Joseph

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Prologue: A Plane Crash in the South Pacific  1
I. The 1950s: The Genesis of Moral Consciousness
1. Growing Up Black in Cajun Country 13
2. Sunday Mornings in Louisiana  23
3. On the Banks of the Mississippi  34
II. The 1960s: Applying Values to Social Movements
4. A Spiritual Journey at Yale  45
5. Alabama: The Search for an Ethic of Protest  54
6. California: The Other War on Campus  74
III. The 1970s and 1980s: The Application of Moral Reasoning
7. Cummins Engine Company: Capitalism with an Ethic  95
8. Debating Disinvestment: A Visit to South Africa  114
9. The Car ter Administration: Private Wants and Public Needs  128
10. Civil Society: Th e Public Use of Private Power  149
IV. The 1990s: Moral Lessons from South Africa
11. From Activist to Diplomat: Race and Reconciliation in South Africa  177
12. Dismantling Apartheid: The Unfinished Agenda  193
13. Ethics and Statecraft : What I Learned from Nelson Mandela  214
14. Presidential Diplomacy: The Clinton Visit to South Africa  232
V. The Twenty- First Century: Leadership and Public Values
15. Leaders Learning from Leaders  249
16. A Lexicon of Public Values: What the Virtuecrats Did Not Tell Us  264
Epilogue: Building Community by Design  277
Notes  285
Index  291