Books written by Benjamin R. Barber
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The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House
... at more populous venues ( this was a variation on Ann Lewis's line about attending to the people's business ) . ... She recalled that at Sid's house the discussion with Blair had quickly moved to the need for a new progressive ...
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Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy
nomics inside nation - states , privileging the private interests of corporations and banks and delegitimizing the common goods of the community . National government now becomes an instructed instrument of the private sector rather ...
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Education for Democracy: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers
Education for Democracy: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers
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Education for Democracy: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers
Education for Democracy: A Sourcebook for Students and Teachers
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If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Along the way, Lee laid the founda- tions for a democracy that, if rather too ponderously, has emerged with growing confidence as the world's most important free city-state. Lee Kuan Yew did all ofthis not as a dictator but under the ...
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Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming
Yet Sadiq Kahn, the mayor chosen by Londoners in 2016, and the son of a Muslim Pakistani immigrant bus driver, responded to Great Britain's vote to exit the European Union—which not even his predecessor Boris Johnson anticipated—by ...
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Education for Democracy: Citizenship, Community, Service : a Sourcebook for Students and Teachers
Education for Democracy: Citizenship, Community, Service : a Sourcebook for Students and Teachers
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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book." —Jackson Lears A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs.
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The Struggle for Democracy
The story of the growth of democracy, its heroes and heroines, its enemies, and its failures and successes from classical Greece to Northern Ireland.
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The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times
If none seem defensible , none are chosen ; we simply return to point zero . Political argument begins with concrete givens . If abstract alternatives prove indefensible , we do not return to point zero ; we are left rather with the ...
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The Artist and Political Vision
The novels to be discussed are : Peter Camenzind , Demian , and The Glass Bead Game.32 Peter Camenzind is one of Hesse's earlier novels , first appearing in 1903 . This novel is a typical German Bildungsroman and its central focus is on ...
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A Place for Us: How to Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong
Commentators have been making a fashion of civil society, but they tend to mean many different things by the phrase: this bracingly clear book shows how diverse the various notions are and how best to think about them.
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Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy
In this hard-hitting but pragmatic new critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, Benjamin R. Barber exposes in detail the folly of an agenda of preventive war, placing it in the context of two hundred years of American strategic ...
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The Interdependence Handbook: Looking Back, Living the Present, Choosing the Future
About The Interdependence Handbook Can we change the way we think and act ? Can we introduce a new guiding principle for civic behavior into our own minds and the minds of citizens throughout the world ? The Interdependence Handbook is ...
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A Passion for Democracy: American Essays
... prudent government , participation and effective national administration , accountability and centripetal efficiency . Political parties , in turn , as they evolved piecemeal from the administrations of Jefferson and Madison through ...
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The Death of Communal Liberty: A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
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The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House
Teddy Roosevelt actually had done so historically (as the ex-neocon Michael Lind was quick to add). How about communitarianism? Was it an invitation to bureaucratic interventionism on behalf of tyrannical collectivities or merely a way ...
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The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times
The description for this book, The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times, will be forthcoming.
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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
An examination of the effects of capitalism on American culture and society reveals how consumer capitalism overproduces goods, targets children as consumers, and replaces public goods with private commodities.
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Con$umed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
... Marketing to Children . " Gross advertising expenditure estimates vary widely ; depending on the source , they range from ... Crowd : Everything You Need to Know to Capture the $ 200 Billion College Market ( Chicago : Dearborn Trade ...