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1 online resource |
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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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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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-289) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Joseph, James A. (James Alfred), 1935-
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Joseph, James A. (James Alfred), 1935- fast |
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Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography
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Executives -- United States -- Biography
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African Americans -- Biography
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Ethics.
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Leadership.
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Ethics
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Leadership
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ethics (philosophy)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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African Americans
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Ambassadors
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Ethics
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Executives
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Leadership
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822375548 |
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0822375540 |
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