Life Liberty And Happiness

Author : Charles R. Kesler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442213353
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness written by Charles R. Kesler and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 10 years, the Claremont Review of Books has become one of the preeminent conservative magazines in the United States, offering bold arguments for a reinvigorated conservatism that draws upon the timeless principles of the American Founding and applies them to the moral and political problems we face today. With essays by the likes of William F. Buckley, Jr., Christopher Hitchens, Richard Brookheiser, James Q. Wilson, Allen C. Guelzo, Victor Davis Hanson, Ross Douthat, and many others, this collection surveys the range of issues addressed in the Claremont Review of Books first decade, from the conservative critique of American progressivism to foreign policy, politics, history, and culture. Liberally illustrated with art director Elliot Banfield's popular cartoons, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness provides the magazine's many devotees with a treasured keepsake of a tumultuous decade and will be of interest to all those who care about American politics and culture. Among the contributors are Hadley Arkes, Martha Bayles, the late William F. Buckley, Jr., Paul Cantor, James Ceaser, Joseph Epstein, Christopher Flannery, Harvey Mansfield, Wilfred McClay, Cheryl Miller, the late Jaroslav Pelikan, Joseph Tartakovsky, Michael Uhlmann, Algis Valiunas, William Voegeli, and the late James Q. Wilson.

Author : Harold Abelson
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 0137135599
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blown to Bits written by Harold Abelson and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2008 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Blown to Bits' is about how the digital explosion is changing everything. The text explains the technology, why it creates so many surprises and why things often don't work the way we expect them to. It is also about things the information explosion is destroying: old assumptions about who is really in control of our lives.

Author : Gordon Anderson
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Version 4.0 written by Gordon Anderson and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American founders designed a Constitution for governance of the United States based on the idea that citizens are sovereign and that function of government is to protect their pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. This book calls the original system "version 3.0," and discusses five basic political principles required for a modern government to accomplish that function. These principles were either explicit or implicit at the founding. However, the United States has deviated from these principles over time, and today the federal government is doing many of the things the Constitution sought to protect against. Congress is in a position much like the programmers of a computer operating system that seek to increase the functionality of the system and to ward off attacks from viruses. However, not only have they passed laws that take away from the citizen's abilities to pursue life, liberty, and happiness, they have also introduced various viruses that threaten the existence of the entire system. This book describes how we can eliminate these viruses infecting the system and update the U.S. government to "version 4.0," allowing U.S. citizens to pursue life, liberty, and happiness, thereby producing a solid foundation for a strong and durable society in which all can freely prosper. There are several conclusions that run against the current prevailing views. The most significant conclusion involves the relationship of the government to the economy. Several principles adopted as prevailing economic wisdom in both the Republican and Democratic Parties are considered harmful to the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness of citizens, and harmful to the society as a whole. There are many books on reforming the U.S. government, which a majority of Americans consider to be broken. However, there is no comprehensive systematic vision based on these core principles of government. Rather, most approaches are patches on symptoms produced by not adhering to these fundamental principles in the first place.

Author : Yale University. Art Gallery
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300122893
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness written by Yale University. Art Gallery and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Distinguished scholars shed new light on American history by examining some of the most familiar and revered objects in American art - paintings by John Trumbull, Charles Willson Peale, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Winslow Homer; silver by Paul Revere and Tiffany & Co.; furniture by Alexander Roux and Henry Connelly; and photographs by William Henry Jackson and Eadweard Muybridge, among others. The authors discuss how issues of cultural heritage, patriotism, politics, moral outrage, material aspirations, and exploration shaped America's art as well as its ideas, attitudes, and traditions." --Book Jacket.

Author : Peggy Noonan
Publisher : Adams Media Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781558505094
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness written by Peggy Noonan and published by Adams Media Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of What I Saw at the Revolution--George Bush's former speech writer--now turns her wit and unblinking eye to explore her own deepening faith, society's failures, the Presidency, urban liberalism, and more, in a funny, touching, entertaining collection of essays.

Author : Karla de la Torre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781793144478
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: La Vida, Libertad Y La Búsqueda de la Felicidad written by Karla de la Torre and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered what being undocumented truly means? Follow Karla's journey from undocumented immigrant to attorney to law professor. She invites you to join her on the rollercoaster of life. Feel her gut-wrenching emotion, as well as the laughter and love that has filled her bilingual world. Read her story in English and Spanish and be inspired to live yours.

Author : Wesley B. Hoover
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781479379620
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, Liberty, Property, and the Pursuit of Happiness written by Wesley B. Hoover and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Declaration of Independance written by Thomas Jefferson is perhaps the most famous document describing the unique character of the American experiment. It suggests a most profound concept of human endeavors and the human rights the founders held to be unalienable. This is a book touching briefly but poignantly on these profound rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, rounded out by an in depth analysis of the rights of Property. All of these are unalienable rights given to man by God not with the intention of being taken away by man. It is a fierce defense of these freedoms and rights and shows how and why they were given to man and why they must be preserved and freely practiced. And finally, there is a connection between God and man related to man's origin and eternal destiny and how these rights (blessings really) are entwined in man's pursuit of happiness and how they involve and include all men no matter where they live.

Author : Grace Alice Turkington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community Civics written by Grace Alice Turkington and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, Liberty and Happiness written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 1588363899
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light and Liberty written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Were Thomas Jefferson alive to read this book, he would recognize every sentence, every elegant turn of phrase, every lofty, beautifully expressed idea. Indeed, every word in the book is his. In an astonishing feat of editing, Eric S. Petersen has culled the entirety of Thomas Jefferson’s published works to fashion thirty-four original essays on themes ranging from patriotism and liberty to hope, humility, and gratitude. The result is a lucid, inspiring distillation of the wisdom of one of America’s greatest political thinkers. From his personal motto—“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”—to his resounding discourse on “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson defined the essential truth of the American spirit. In the essays that Petersen has crafted from letters, speeches, and public documents, Jefferson’s unique moral philosophy and vision shine through. Among the hundreds of magnificent sentences gathered in this volume, here are Jefferson’s pronouncements on Gratitude: “I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations— to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements and under all circumstances, to be open and generous.” Religion: “A concern purely between our God and our consciences.” America’s national character: “It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate; to surmount every difficulty with resolution and contrivance.” Public debt: “We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves.” War: “I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.” In stately measured cadences, these thirty-four essays provide timeless guidance on leading a spiritually fulfilling life. Light and Liberty is a triumphant work of supreme eloquence, as uplifting today as when Jefferson first set these immortal sentences on paper.