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THE FRACTURED REPUBLIC
RENEWING AMERICA'S SOCIAL CONTRACT IN THE AGE OF INDIVIDUALISM |
| By: |
Yuval Levin |
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Electronic book text |
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0465098606 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780465098606 |
| Publisher: |
THE PERSEUS BOOKS GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
24 May, 2016 |
| Synopsis: |
21st century America is anxious and discontented. Our economy is sluggish, our culture is always at war with itself, our governing institutions are frequently paralyzed, and our politics seems incapable of rising to these challenges. The resulting frustration runs broad and deep: It fans populist anger while driving elites to despair. It persuades progressives that America is stuck while convincing conservatives that we are rushing in the wrong direction. It manages to make people on all sides of most issues feel as though they are under siege simultaneously.Why should this be? And how can we overcome our frustration? In this groundbreaking exploration of America's 21st-century challenges, Yuval Levin argues that our anxiety is rooted in a failure of diagnosis. Our politics is drenched in nostalgia, with Democrats always living in 1965 and Republicans in 1981, and is therefore blind to the profound transformations of the last half century. America's midcentury order was dominated by large, interconnected institutions: big government, big business, big labor, big media, big universities, mass culture. But in every arena of our national life-or at least every arena except government, for now-we have witnessed the centrifugal forces of diffusion, diversity, individualism, and decentralization pulling these large institutions apart. These forces have liberated many Americans from oppressive social constraints but also estranged many from families, communities, work, and faith. They have set loose a profusion of options in every part of life but also unraveled the social order and economic security of an earlier era. They have loosened the reins of cultural conformity but also sharpened our differences and weakened the roots of mutual trust.Building on our strengths while healing our wounds, Levin argues, would require a politics better adapted to the society we have become-a politics rooted in neither an ethic of centralized power nor a spirit of radical individualism but a regard for the potential of a modernized subsidiarity and civil society. |
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3 Figures |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Basic Books |
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Non-returnable |
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