Saved for a purpose : a journey from private virtues to public values /

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In his ethical autobiography, James A. Joseph-who was active in the Civil Rights Movement, an executive of a Fortune 500 company, the Undersecretary of the Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa-shares the development of his philosophies of morality and leadership.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Joseph, James A. (James Alfred), 1935- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Joseph, James A. > (James Alfred), > 1935-
Ambassadors > United States > Biography.
Executives > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Biography.
Ethics.
Leadership.
Ethics
Leadership
Ambassadeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Noirs américains > Biographies.
Morale.
ethics (philosophy)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
African Americans.
Ambassadors.
Executives.
United States.
Autobiography
Autobiographies
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: a plane crash in the South Pacific
  • Growing up Black in Cajun Country
  • Sunday mornings in Louisiana
  • On the banks of the Mississippi
  • A spiritual journey at Yale
  • Alabama: the search for an ethic of protest
  • California: the other war on campus
  • Cummins Engine Company: capitalism with an ethic
  • Debating disinvestment: a visit to South Africa
  • The Carter administration: private wants and public needs
  • Civil society: the public use of private power
  • From activist to diplomat: race and reconciliation in South Africa
  • Dismantling apartheid: the unfinished agenda
  • Ethics and statecraft: what I learned from Nelson Mandela
  • Presidential diplomacy: the Clinton visit to South Africa
  • Leaders learning from leaders
  • A lexicon of public values: what the virtuecrats did not tell us
  • Epilogue: building community by design.

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