Is there an American culture? Certainly, says James Morone.
Americans are fighting over it now. They have been fighting over it
since the first Puritan stepped ashore. Americans hate government
(no national health insurance!) and call for more of it (lock 'em
up!). They prize democracy (power to the people) and scramble to
restrict it (the electoral college in the 21st century?). They
celebrate opportunity-but only for some (don't let those people
in!). Americans proclaim liberty then wrestle over which
kind-positive (freedom from want) or negative (no new taxes!)? In
this volume Morone offers his own answer to the conundrum of
American political culture: It is a perpetual work in progress.
Immigrants arrive, excluded groups demand power, and each
generation injects new ethnicities, races, religions, ideas, foods,
entertainments, sins, and body types into the national mix. The
challengers-the devils we know-keep inventing new answers to the
nation's fundamental question: Who are we? Each essay in The Devils
We Know takes up a different aspect of the creative conflicts that
shape America. Ranging from Huck Finn to Obamacare, Morone explores
the ways in which culture interacts with other forces-most notably
the rules and organizations that channel collective choices. The
battle to define the nation's political culture spills over into
every area of American life, but three are especially important:
democracy, economics, and morals - each, in turn, complicated by
race, race, race.
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