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Saved for a Purpose : A Journey from Private Virtues to Public Values /
The son of a minister, James A. Joseph grew up in Louisiana's Cajun country, where his parents taught him the value of education and the importance of serving others. These lessons inspired him to follow a career path that came to include working in senior executive or advisory positions for fo...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: A Plane Crash in the South Pacific
- I. The 1950s: The Genesis of Moral Consciousness
- 1. Growing Up Black in Cajun Country
- 2. Sunday Mornings in Louisiana
- 3. On the Banks of the Mississippi
- II. The 1960s: Applying Values to Social Movements
- 4. A Spiritual Journey at Yale
- 5. Alabama: The Search for an Ethic of Protest
- 6. California: The Other War on Campus
- III. The 1970s and 1980s: The Application of Moral Reasoning
- 7. Cummins Engine Company: Capitalism with an Ethic
- 8. Debating Disinvestment: A Visit to South Africa
- 9. The Carter Administration: Private Wants and Public Needs
- 10. Civil Society: The Public Use of Private Power
- IV. The 1990s: Moral Lessons from South Africa
- 11. From Activist to Diplomat: Race and Reconciliation in South Africa
- 12. Dismantling Apartheid: The Unfinished Agenda
- 13. Ethics and Statecraft: What I Learned from Nelson Mandela
- 14. Presidential Diplomacy: The Clinton Visit to South Africa
- V. The Twenty-First Century: Leadership and Public Values
- 15. Leaders Learning from Leaders
- 16. A Lexicon of Public Values: What the Virtuecrats Did Not Tell Us
- Epilogue: Building Community by Design
- Notes
- Index