Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense - Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad (Paperback, New edition)

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

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2006
First published:	November 2005
Editors:	Alan Curtis
Foreword by:	Kevin Phillips
Contributors:	Eric Alterman • Phyllis A. Bennis • Sophie Body-Gendrot • Julian Borger • David Corn • Elliott Currie • Eric M. Davis • Jeff Faux
Dimensions:	220 x 176 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	496
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-4217-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	0-7425-4217-3
Barcode:	9780742542174

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