Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense

Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad

Alan Curtis (Anthology Editor) , Eric Alterman (Contributor) , Phyllis A. Bennis (Contributor) , Sophie Body-Gendrot (Contributor) , Julian Borger (Contributor) , David Corn (Contributor) ,
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Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense

Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad

Alan Curtis (Anthology Editor) , Eric Alterman (Contributor) , Phyllis A. Bennis (Contributor) , Sophie Body-Gendrot (Contributor) , Julian Borger (Contributor) , David Corn (Contributor) ,
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Why have American policies failed? What alternative policies can return America to its promise, internally and in the eyes of a global community? This book answers these questions in a preposterous way. It asks citizens and policy makers to actually connect the dots-to move America forward by developing mutually supportive and complementary foreign, national security, Middle East, economic, domestic, inner city, media, campaign finance, and voting reform policies.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Big Picture
Chapter 3 The Challenge of Managing Dominance
Chapter 3 National Security in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 4 A Compromised Central Intelligence Agency: What Can Be Done?
Chapter 5 Does America Have the Wisdom to Grasp the Opportunity?
Chapter 6 The Courage to Keep On Talking
Chapter 7 The European Mistrust of American Leadership
Chapter 8 America Needs Europe
Chapter 9 Challenging Empire: The United Nations in a New Internationalism
Chapter 10 Speaking Truth to Power: Preventive Diplomacy Backed by Force
Chapter 11 American Foreign Policy: A Tragic "Success"
Chapter 12 Concern and Credibility
Chapter 13 The Necessity of Persuasion: Keeping Congress Engaged
Chapter 14 Security and Democracy in the Post-September 11 Era
Chapter 15 Village Democracy and Presidential Leadership
Chapter 16 Domino Democracy: Challenges to United States Foreign Policy in a Post-Saddam Middle East
Chapter 17 American Leadership to Create a Two-State Solution
Chapter 18 Awakening the American Political Debate on Palestine and Israel
Chapter 19 The Future Political and Economic Architecture of the Middle East
Chapter 20 We Are Still All Americans
Chapter 21 The Financial, Political, and Moral Deficits of the American Empire
Chapter 22 The Coming Budget Crisis and the Rising Threat of Large-Scale Federal Disinvestment
Chapter 23 Full Employment and the Perils of Empire
Chapter 24 Concentrated Power Without Responsibility
Chapter 25 The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
Chapter 26 The Failure of "Free Market Tough State" Ideology
Chapter 27 September 11 and the Criminal Justice System
Chapter 28 The Missing Debate
Chapter 29 It is Time to Break the Silence
Chapter 30 Civil Liberties and Effective Investigation
Chapter 31 Creation of the Media Democracy Reform Movement
Chapter 32 Electronic Advocacy and Fundraising: The State of the Art
Chapter 33 Electronic Counter-Power and Collective Action
Chapter 34 Independent Reporting and The People's Media
Chapter 35 Lessons from 1964
Chapter 36 Thieves in High Places:They're Stealing Our Country, and It's Time to Take It Back
Chapter 37 Generating Political Hope in a Time of Fear
Chapter 38 Who Has the Emerging Majority Now?
Chapter 39 American Politics and Policy: We Don't Have Time to Despair

Product details

Published Nov 30 2005
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 496
ISBN 9780742542174
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 220 x 176 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

AC
Anthology Editor

Alan Curtis

EA
Contributor

Eric Alterman

PB
Contributor

Phyllis A. Bennis

SB
Contributor

Sophie Body-Gendrot

JB
Contributor

Julian Borger

DC
Contributor

David Corn

EC
Contributor

Elliott Currie

ED
Contributor

Eric M. Davis

JF
Contributor

Jeff Faux

AF
Contributor

Alton Frye

JG
Contributor

James K. Galbraith

AG
Contributor

Amy Goodman

RG
Contributor

Robert Greenstein

WG
Contributor

William Greider

FH
Contributor

Fred R. Harris

GH
Contributor

Gary Hart

WH
Contributor

William D. Hartung

JH
Contributor

Jim Hightower

LK
Contributor

Laurie E. King-Irani

RL
Contributor

Richard C. Leone

JM
Contributor

Jessica Tuchman Mathews

MM
Contributor

Marc Mauer

RM
Contributor

Robert W. McChesney

RM
Contributor

Ray McGovern

RN
Contributor

Ralph Nader

JN
Contributor

John Nichols

EO
Contributor

E Roger Owen

MP
Contributor

Michael Parenti

EP
Contributor

Eli Pariser

HR
Contributor

Howard Rheingold

CR
Contributor

Coleen M. Rowley

YS
Contributor

Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich

RS
Contributor

Raymond Shonholtz

CS
Contributor

Claire Short

MS
Contributor

Micah L. Sifry

VS
Contributor

Vivien Stern

RT
Contributor

Ruy Teixeira

CT
Contributor

Chris Toensing

WW
Contributor

William Wallace

JI
Contributor

Joseph C. Wilson IV

KP
Foreword

Kevin Phillip

Reviews

  • [Takes] a hard look at the United States and suggests practical alternatives to present policies.

    The Review of Higher Education

  • Enormously important.

    Theodore C. Sorensen, Former Special Counsel to President John F. Kennedy

  • This volume can only help restore America's promise at home and abroad.

    Kevin Phillips, former strategist in the Nixon White House, author of Wealth and Democracy

  • This is one of the clearest, most important books of our time written by some of the most insightful and provocative experts. It is a truth-telling book that makes the connections from individual failures to the comprehensive indictment of what is wrong with America. This one book says it all with some of the most honest voices of our time.

    Celinda Lake, pollster and political strategist, Lake Snell Perry Mermin and Associates

  • How do you get to the American people? They are aware of what is happening to some extent. It's the solutions that they need and we have failed. Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense can begin to reverse that. It offers a cogent and comprehensive policy prescription that people can understand.

    Ian Williams, Guardian and The Nation

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