Joseph Saved for a Purpose

A Journey from Private Virtues to Public Values
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7554-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Joseph, James A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.