Saved for a purpose : a journey from private virtues to public values / James A. Joseph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, James A. (James Alfred), 1935- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Joseph, James A. (James Alfred), 1935-.

Joseph, James A.

Ambassadors--United States--Biography.

Ambassadors.

Executives--United States--Biography.

Executives.

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

Ethics.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>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.</div>

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8223-7554-0

OCLC:

1145236675