SHELTER ISLAND, N.Y., Feb. 15, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- With anti-Americanism abroad at an all time high and political opinions dividing us at home, what better time to take an in-depth look at the values that define and unite us as Americans? Karl Drew Hartzell, in his brilliant new book, The Laws of the Living, helps us to do just that.
Hartzell has condensed the findings of his lifetime devotion to the study of ethics and values into this important book that should be required reading for every U.S. citizen. In it he traces the history of the uniform ways of acting that contribute to the maintenance and continuing evolution of human existence.
As the subtitle, American Values in Action, suggests, the book goes on to examine how we are applying our societal and personal values to dealing with the problems and issues of the present. "We need to know what our values (and disvalues) are, where we got them and what we are doing to keep them," says Hartzell. The Laws of the Living will give all its readers a greater understanding of the way individual Americans have contributed to the society we now have and what it means to be an American in this global economy.
About the Author
Karl Drew Hartzell, the son and grandson of Methodist ministers, graduated from Wesleyan University, holds a doctorate degree in history from Harvard University, and is listed in Who's Who in America. A college professor and university dean, he retired from the administration of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. At the end of WWII, he was appointed archivist and historian of the New York State War Council, and later served as administrative officer in the director's office during the start up of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He has three sons by his first wife who died in 1985. He resides on Shelter Island, New York, and in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, with his wife, the published poet Elizabeth Farnum Hartzell.
The Laws of the Living by Karl Hartzell
American Values in Action
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