Why Americans Hate Politics
by E. J. Dionne, Jr.
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Examines the current sad state of our national political life ; shows why the choices offered by both liberals and conservatives are false choices, choices that have no connection to most Americans' truest values and concerns.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 1991
- Important places
- USA
- Epigraph
- "As long as people are people, democracy, in the full sense of the word, will always be no more than an ideal. Once may approach it as one would the horizon in ways that may be better or worse, but it can never be fully atta... (show all)ined. In this sense, you, too, are merely approaching democracy."
-- Vaclav Havel
To the United States Congress - Dedication
- TO MY MOTHER AND FATHER,
WITH LOVE - First words
- The New Left and the counterculture prepared the way for Ronald Reagan.
- Quotations
- Many young voters who had been drawn to the New Left and the counterculture because they attacked authority were drawn to conservatism because it attacked the state. Thus did the New Left wage war against the paternalistic... (show all) liberal state and defeat it. The right picked up the pieces. (Chap. 1 "Freedom Now")
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.
- Blurbers
- Shields, Mark; Roberts, Cokie; Schneider, William; Stahl, Lesley; Lipset, Seymour Martin; Galbraith, James K. (show all 7); Eastland, Terry
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 320.5 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political ideologies
- LCC
- JK1764 .D56 — Political Science Political institutions and public administration (United States) Political institutions and public administration United States Political rights. Practical politics
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
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- 6
