"America at Risk" gathers original essays by a distinguished and
bipartisan group of writers and intellectuals to address a question
that matters to Americans of every political persuasion: what are
some of the greatest dangers facing America today? The answers,
which range from dwindling political participation to rising
poverty, and religion to empire, add up to a valuable and timely
portrait of a particular moment in the history of American
ideas.
While the opinions are many, there is a central theme in the
book: the corrosion of the liberal constitutional order that has
long guided the country at home and abroad. The authors write about
the demonstrably important dangers the United States faces while
also breaking the usual academic boundaries: there are chapters on
the family, religious polarization, immigration, and the economy,
as well as on governmental and partisan issues.
"America at Risk" is required reading for all Americans alarmed
about the future of their country.
Contributors
- Traci Burch
- James W. Ceaser
- Robert Faulkner
- Niall Ferguson
- William A. Galston
- Hugh Heclo
- Pierre Manent
- Harvey C. Mansfield
- Peter Rodriguez
- Kay Lehman Schlozman
- Susan Shell
- Peter Skerry
- James Q. Wilson
- Alan Wolfe
Robert Faulkner is Professor of Political Science at Boston
College. Susan Shell is Professor of Political Science at Boston
College.
""America at Risk" goes well beyond the usual diagnoses of
issues debated in public life like immigration, war, and debt, to
consider the Republic's founding principles, and the ways in which
they have been displaced by newer thoughts and habits in
contemporary America. A critical book for understanding our present
condition."
--Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International
Political Economy, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies
"In this penetrating book, the nation's finest social and
political thinkers from across the spectrum take a careful and
no-holds-barred look at the dangers facing the American political
system. The conclusions are more unsettling than reassuring---but
that is because they are honest and real."
--Norm Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise
Institute
"In the midst of overwrought pundits, irate soccer moms, and
outraged bloggers, it is difficult to distinguish genuine dangers
from false alarms and special pleading. This book enables us to do
so, in a way that helps us to actually think about, not just feel
anxious about, threats to those features of American society that
are worth cherishing. The authors range in ideology and expertise,
but they are uniformly judicious, incisive, and informative. This
is a fascinating book about issues that the political system
usually ignores or exaggerates."
--Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of
Government and Professor of African and African American Studies,
Harvard University
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