Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense

Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad
Herausgeber: Curtis, Alan

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Produktbeschreibung

Featured on CNN, C-SPAN, FOX News, NBC's Today Show, Democracy NOW!, News Hour with Jim Lehrer and other leading talk shows. In the late 1960s, the bipartisan Eisenhower Violence Commission, formed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson and extended by President Richard Nixon, warned that most civilizations have fallen less from external assault than from internal decay. Over recent years, the internal decay prophesied by the Violence Commission, but also by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his military-industrial complex farewell speech, has been reflected in American public policies. The fault lies on both sides of the political aisle. After Pearl Harbor, "Mr. Republican," Senator Robert A. Taft, said criticism is patriotic. Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense assembles more than three dozen patriots. They range from Kevin Phillips, chief political strategist for Richard Nixon's victory in 1968, and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, called a "true American hero" by President George H. W. Bush in 1991, to Jessica Tuchman Mathews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and former Oklahoma Senator Fred R. Harris, who advocated grassroots, populist policies when he ran for president in the 1970s. Why have American policies failed? What alternative policies can return America to its promise, internally and in the eyes of a global community shaken by, among other things, American torture and sexual humiliation of prisoners in Iraq? Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense answers these questions in a preposterous way. It asks citizens and policy makers to actually connect the dots-to move America forward by developing mutually supportive and complementary foreign, national security, Middle East, economic, domestic, inner city, media, campaign finance and voting reform policies. Too much to expect of our civilization? This important and timely effort is published in cooperation with The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation. From Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Se

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9780742542174
• ISBN-10: 0742542173
• Artikelnr.: 21539837

Autorenporträt

Edited by Alan Curtis - Foreword by Kevin Phillips - Contributions by Eric Alterman; Phyllis A. Bennis; Sophie Body-Gendrot; Julian Borger; David Corn; Elliott Currie; Eric M. Davis; Jeff Faux; Alton Frye; James K. Galbraith; Amy Goodman; Robert Greenstei

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Big Picture Chapter 3 The Challenge of Managing Dominance
Chapter 3 National Security in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 4 A
Compromised Central Intelligence Agency: What Can Be Done? Chapter 5 Does
America Have the Wisdom to Grasp the Opportunity? Chapter 6 The Courage to
Keep On Talking Chapter 7 The European Mistrust of American Leadership
Chapter 8 America Needs Europe Chapter 9 Challenging Empire: The United
Nations in a New Internationalism Chapter 10 Speaking Truth to Power:
Preventive Diplomacy Backed by Force Chapter 11 American Foreign Policy: A
Tragic "Success" Chapter 12 Concern and Credibility Chapter 13 The
Necessity of Persuasion: Keeping Congress Engaged Chapter 14 Security and
Democracy in the Post-September 11 Era Chapter 15 Village Democracy and
Presidential Leadership Chapter 16 Domino Democracy: Challenges to United
States Foreign Policy in a Post-Saddam Middle East Chapter 17 American
Leadership to Create a Two-State Solution Chapter 18 Awakening the American
Political Debate on Palestine and Israel Chapter 19 The Future Political
and Economic Architecture of the Middle East Chapter 20 We Are Still All
Americans Chapter 21 The Financial, Political, and Moral Deficits of the
American Empire Chapter 22 The Coming Budget Crisis and the Rising Threat
of Large-Scale Federal Disinvestment Chapter 23 Full Employment and the
Perils of Empire Chapter 24 Concentrated Power Without Responsibility
Chapter 25 The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy Chapter
26 The Failure of "Free Market Tough State" Ideology Chapter 27 September
11 and the Criminal Justice System Chapter 28 The Missing Debate Chapter 29
It is Time to Break the Silence Chapter 30 Civil Liberties and Effective
Investigation Chapter 31 Creation of the Media Democracy Reform Movement
Chapter 32 Electronic Advocacy and Fundraising: The State of the Art
Chapter 33 Electronic Counter-Power and Collective Action Chapter 34
Independent Reporting and The People's Media Chapter 35 Lessons from 1964
Chapter 36 Thieves in High Places:They're Stealing Our Country, and It's
Time to Take It Back Chapter 37 Generating Political Hope in a Time of Fear
Chapter 38 Who Has the Emerging Majority Now? Chapter 39 American Politics
and Policy: We Don't Have Time to Despair