Freedom and responsibility in the American way of life: Five lectures delivered on the William W. Cook Foundation at the University of Michigan, December 1944

by Carl Lotus Becker

One of the wisest and most truly humane of American historians in his final work gave us his views on the fundamental moral and social problems of a citizen's conduct in American society.

Hardcover

First published June 27, 1980

About the author

Carl Lotus Becker was an American historian. He is best known for The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (1932), four lectures on The Enlightenment delivered at Yale University. His assertion that philosophies, in the "Age of Reason," relied far more upon Christian assumptions than they cared to admit, has been influential, but has also been much attacked,

Cornell has recognized his work as an educator by naming one of its five new residential colleges the Carl Becker House.

Reviews

[Robert Giambo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book which was a series of lectures by the author.