商品簡介
"The founders built an architecture for diversity. This book posits in the most intriguing way the roots of that design."---Professor Ronald Heifetz, co-author of the Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School and Cambridge Leadership Associates
"[This book] provides valuable insights for the student of history and the modern political leader alike...seen through the eyes of the Founding Fathers and the Masonic Architect of the Universe [from the foreword]."---Professor Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president emeritus, The George Washington University
"A unique and insightful analysis of the power of freedom..."---Senator Thomas Daschle, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
"Carefully researched and perceptive book..."---Congressman Robert Livingston, former Speaker-elect, U.S. Congress
"[Mendis is] like Alexis de Tocqueville..."---Rear Admiral William Sizemore (Ret.), U.S. Navy
"Mendis changes the way we look at our history, policy, and trade."---Dr. Paula Stern, former chairwoman of the U.S. International Trade Commission
"His eye-opening thesis [has] enormous relevance for today."---Ambassador Frank Loy, former undersecretary of state under President Bill Clinton
"[He] has a clear and cogent message: America will succeed; it is embedded in our destiny."---Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, former undersecretary of state under President George W. Bush
"Original and fascinating..."---James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly and National Public Radio
"Mendis goes beyond Dan Brown's Lost Symbol to disclose the true story of the fictional narrative."---Masonic Grand Master Akram Elias, co-producer (with Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss) of Mr. Dreyfuss Goes to Washington
作者簡介
Patrick Mendis, a visiting foreign policy scholar at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the author of Trade for Peace, is a former military professor and American diplomat during the Clinton and Bush administrations. Dr. Mendis is an alumnus of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is an affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University.
