David Netherton, Author of The Persistence of Liberty, An American Philosophy

David Ross Netherton

David Netherton’s published writing is anchored in a composite view of the community of nations and America’s place in it, with all the ambivalence that has come to entail. His work appears in periodicals, academic journals, monthlies, and regional collections of poetry. Educated in Boston and Vienna, he completed his doctorate in philosophy in the UK, and holds graduate degrees in the fields of psychology, epidemiology and philosophy.

The Persistence of Liberty

This appealing book treats the genesis of contemporary American taste, tolerance and energy. The Persistence of Liberty illuminates the idealistic perspective that so many Americans share. In collected essays, it is part cultural history and part odyssey, traveling across recurring themes of the latter twentieth century in prose poetry that draws upon the arts, natural sciences, evolution of the spirit, and the liberty of the American moment to form its own practical philosophy.