Figures in the Carpet Finding the Human Person in the American Past

"What does it mean to be a human person?" This volume is a historical inquiry into that foundational, deceptively simple question. Viewing the human person from various perspectives -- law, education, business, media, religion, medicine, community life, gender, art -- sixteen historians of American life explore how our understanding of personhood has changed over time and how that changing understanding has significantly affected our ideas about morality and human rights, our conversations about public policy, and our American culture as a whole.Contributors: Margaret Bendroth Allan Carlson Thomas R. Cole Daniel Walker Howe Richard H. King Michael J. Lacey Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn George M. Marsden Eugene McCarraher Wilfred M. McClay John T. McGreevy Eric Miller Sally M. Promey Charles J. Reid Jr. Christine Rosen Christopher Shannon Daniel WickbergMcClay, Wilfred M. is the author of 'Figures in the Carpet Finding the Human Person in the American Past', published 2007 under ISBN 9780802863119 and ISBN 0802863116.