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Liberty or Justice for All?: A Conversation across the American Centuries Audiobook, by Philip F. Gura Play Audiobook Sample

Liberty or Justice for All?: A Conversation across the American Centuries Audiobook

Liberty or Justice for All?: A Conversation across the American Centuries Audiobook, by Philip F. Gura Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Adam Verner Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 4.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798765086926

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

10

Longest Chapter Length:

55:45 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

10:55 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

41:09 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

Liberty or Justice for All? brings to life four of America's greatest thinkers, whose dialogue across the ages has never been more relevant. Philip F. Gura begins his nimble tale with Jonathan Edwards, a fiery preacher who insisted that God would reward those who embraced social cooperation. One generation later, the Founding Fathers grounded their own project of civic renewal in rights and freedom. But if every citizen is guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, does this mean America is a nation where the individual reigns supreme?

America's young democracy soon found its prophet in Ralph Waldo Emerson, who preached a gospel of self-reliance, small government, and self-improvement. But with the coming of the Civil War, Emerson's triumphant individual became a cog in a vast war machine. Radical technological transformations convinced the psychologist-turned-philosopher William James that the self was more fragmented and fragile than Emerson believed. He found virtue in pluralism and diversity, seeing selfishness as the cardinal sin. Two world wars and several failed revolutions later, John Rawls, shaken by the divisions of Vietnam, sought to establish a new secular foundation for social cooperation. Over time, we have sought to hold these opposing value systems in delicate balance, promising both liberty and justice for all.

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About Philip F. Gura

Philip F. Gura is the William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including American Transcendentalism: A History, which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, as well as many other books of American cultural history.

About Adam Verner

Adam Verner is a stage, film, television, and voice actor and an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. He holds a BS in theater arts from Bradley University and an MFA from Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.