How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask
this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see
what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done.
Regardless of what he's complaining about or whom he's attacking, a
second question comes hard on the heels of the first: How on earth
do we get out of this? Alan Wolfe has an answer. In The Politics of
Petulance he argues that the core of our problem isn't Trump
himself--it's that we are mired in an age of political immaturity.
That immaturity is not grounded in any one ideology, nor is it a
function of age or education. It's in an abdication of valuing the
character of would-be leaders; it's in a failure to acknowledge,
even welcome the complexity of government and society; and it's in
a loss of the ability to be skeptical without being suspicious. In
2016, many Americans were offered tantalizingly simple answers to
complicated problems, and, like children being offered a lunch of
Pop Rocks and Coke, they reflexively--and mindlessly--accepted. The
good news, such as it is, is that we've been here before. Wolfe
reminds us that we know how to grow up and face down Trump and
other demagogues. Wolfe reinvigorates the tradition of public
engagement exemplified by midcentury intellectuals such as Richard
Hofstadter, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling--and he draws
lessons from their battles with McCarthyism and conspiratorial
paranoia. Wolfe mounts a powerful case that we can learn from them
to forge a new path for political intervention today. Wolfe has
been thinking and writing about American life and politics for
decades. He sees this moment as one of real risk. But he's not
throwing up his hands; he's bracing us. We've faced demagogues
before. We can find the intellectual maturity to fight back. Yes we
can.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2019 |
| Authors: |
Alan Wolfe
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-67911-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-226-67911-X |
| Barcode: |
9780226679112 |
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