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Return to Greatness
Alan Wolfe
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Description for Return to Greatness
Argues that most Americans show greater concern with saving the country's soul than with making the nation great. This book castigates both conservatives and liberals for opting for small-mindedness over greatness. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 399.
Has America, in its quest for goodness, sacrificed its sense of greatness? In this sharp-witted, historically informed book, veteran political observer Alan Wolfe argues that most Americans show greater concern with saving the country's soul than with making the nation great. Wolfe castigates both conservatives and liberals for opting for small-mindedness over greatness. Liberals, who at their best insisted on policies of national solidarity, have convinced themselves that small is beautiful, prefer multiculturalism to one nation, and are mistrustful of executive political power. Conservatives, who once embraced strong, active central government and an ideal of national citizenship, now support huge ... Read more
Has America, in its quest for goodness, sacrificed its sense of greatness? In this sharp-witted, historically informed book, veteran political observer Alan Wolfe argues that most Americans show greater concern with saving the country's soul than with making the nation great. Wolfe castigates both conservatives and liberals for opting for small-mindedness over greatness. Liberals, who at their best insisted on policies of national solidarity, have convinced themselves that small is beautiful, prefer multiculturalism to one nation, and are mistrustful of executive political power. Conservatives, who once embraced strong, active central government and an ideal of national citizenship, now support huge ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691119335
SKU
V9780691119335
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99-15
About Alan Wolfe
Alan Wolfe is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. His books include "The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Practice Our Faith" (Free Press), "An Intellectual in Public", and "One Nation, After All" (Penguin-Viking).
Reviews for Return to Greatness
"Wolfe argues that America's history has been a long struggle between a few Roosevelts and Lincolns who have challenged America to be great, and a swarm of Bushes and McKinleys who aimed low and achieved even less... Nations, like heroes, are made, not born. As Alan Wolfe points out, our greatest presidents have always found the courage to remind us ... Read more