Why Americans Hate PoliticsSimon and Schuster, 2004 - 432 pages In this new edition of his national bestseller, E. J. Dionne brings up to date his influential proposals for a politics that can and must find a balance between rights and obligations, between responsibility and compassion. All over the United States, Americans are deserting the political process. Why? In this national bestseller, one of our shrewdest political observers traces thirty years of volatile political history and finds that on point after point, liberals and conservatives are framing issues as a series of "false choices, " making it impossible for politicians to solve problems, and alienating voters in the process. Now with a new afterword discussing the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings and the 1992 presidential election, Dionne explores what has gone wrong with the American system and offers a back-to-basics approach to politics designed to respond to the anger of America's restive majority. From the New, Updated Introduction: "At the heart of Why Americans Hate Politics is the view that ideas shape politics far more than most accounts of public life usually allow. I believe ideas matter not only to elites and intellectuals, but also to rank and file voters. Indeed, I often think that the rank and file see the importance of ideas more clearly than the elites, who often find themselves surprised by the rise of the movements that arise from the bottom up and shape our politics." |
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... wanted to move on . The cause of this false polarization was the cultural civil war that broke out in the 1960s . Just as the Civil War dominated American political life for decades after it ended , so the INTRODUCTION / 11.
... wanted to move on . The cause of this false polarization was the cultural civil war that broke out in the 1960s . Just as the Civil War dominated American political life for decades after it ended , so the INTRODUCTION / 11.
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... wanted the cultural civil war to continue - and why so many continued to pursue it into the twenty - first century . It was the Kulturkampf of the 1960s that made conservatives so powerful in our political life . Conservatives were able ...
... wanted the cultural civil war to continue - and why so many continued to pursue it into the twenty - first century . It was the Kulturkampf of the 1960s that made conservatives so powerful in our political life . Conservatives were able ...
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... wanted to be a unifier and a con- sensus builder became instead a profoundly divisive figure . Precisely because his political successes so enraged his opponents , Clinton could not afford to hand them heavy weapons , as he did in the ...
... wanted to be a unifier and a con- sensus builder became instead a profoundly divisive figure . Precisely because his political successes so enraged his opponents , Clinton could not afford to hand them heavy weapons , as he did in the ...
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IV | 55 |
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XIX | 283 |
XXI | 300 |
XXIII | 327 |
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