American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History that celebrates the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government.
Edited with perceptive and provocative commentary by bestselling historian and journalist Nicholas Lemann (The Promised Land, Transaction Man), the book presents key writings from the American past that speak to five contemporary ...
Eight Challenges to America's Future William E. Hudson. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, ...
Problems in American Democracy
This book is recommended reading for everyone who has wrestled with the troubling suspicion that there is something inherently dubious and defective about the democratic system.
... June 18 , 1994 ) : Have we created a " hyper - democracy " in which public and private - sector advocates alike have ... George Mason University Public Affairs Professor , similarly stated the problem as " hyperdemocracy " in an ...
In Uniting America, some of the country’s most prominent social thinkers—among them Francis Fukuyama, Daniel Yankelovich, Amitai Etzioni, Alan Wolfe, Uwe Reinhardt, and Thomas E. Mann—reject the myth of polarization.
... 531 Lesson of Vietnam , 533 Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol , 57 Levy , Chandra , 315 , 328 Lewinsky , Monica , 391 Lewis ... Evan , 576 Media concentration , 303 Medicaid , 515-516 Medicare , 512 Megamedia , 305 Melnick , R. Shep ...
J. Michael Martinez, Congressional Giants: Influential Leaders of Congress and How They Shaped American History (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), 171. 13. Quoted in Nichols, 47–8. 14. Nichols, 73. 15. Wallace, in Nichols, 55.
In this troubling time when the public is losing trust and confidence in our government, Jill Long Thompson shows us a bipartisan way forward.