The Pursuit of Happiness, an Unalienable Right

Code: SL51987

Dates: May 16, 2025

Meets: 12 N to 1:30 PM

Sessions: 1

Location: Creutzburg Center

Course Fee: $59.00

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Informed by classical writers, our country's founders established the principles identified in the Declaration of Independence and upon which they built our democracy. Rosen reveals what pursuing happiness meant to and in the lives of each of six of the most influential founders—Franklin, Washington, J. Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton. They understood the pursuit of happiness as a quest for being good, not feeling good—the pursuit of lifelong virtue, not short-term pleasure. However, their lives were complicated and contradictory. A copy of the book is included with enrollment. The talk is followed by a book signing
Fee: $59.00
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260 Gulph Creek Road
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Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen is the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic. He was previously the legal affairs editor of The New Republic and a staff writer for the New Yorker. Rosen’s new book is The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. His other books include the New York Times bestseller Conversations with RBG: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law as well as biographies of Louis Brandeis and William Howard Taft. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. In 2024, the French government recognized him as a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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