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Redeeming Democracy in America (Hardcover)
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Redeeming Democracy in America (Hardcover)
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Wherever we turn in America today, we see angry citizens
disparaging government, distrusting each other, avoiding civic
life, and professing a hatred of politics and politicians of all
stripes. Is our situation hopeless? Wilson Carey McWilliams
wouldn’t think so. McWilliams, one of the preeminent political
theorists of the twentieth century, was closely identified with an
ambitious intellectual enterprise to reclaim and restore democracy
as a source of national veneration, inspiration, and salvation.
Better than most of his contemporaries, he understood and
illuminated the major sources of the political malaise that
afflicts our nation’s citizens. For him, the key to
reinvigorating our republic depends on our ability to reclaim the
“second voice” of American politics—the one that emanates
from our literature, churches, families, and schools and speaks out
on behalf of community and civic responsibility. The writings
gathered here cohere into McWilliams’s most mature and most
developed philosophical statement—the distillation of a
distinguished career of thinking about the American experiment.
From insights into “The Framers and the Constitution” to
reflections on “America as Technological Republic,” he shares a
love for an older tradition of democracy, one based upon the active
self-rule of self-governing citizens. “Protestant Prudence and
Natural Rights” and “On Equality as the Moral Foundation for
Community” may force readers to adjust their understandings of
American politics, while “Democracy and the Citizen” and
“Political Parties as Civic Associations” will resound for
observers of the current political scene, regardless of party.
Carey McWilliams not only offers a prescient analysis of the
current crisis in American citizenship and governance but also
shows us what sources within the American tradition might exist to
save us from our worst selves. His broad and iconoclastic approach
to American politics should appeal to both conservatives and
liberals—to anyone, in fact, who cares about the state of
democracy in America.
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