Not only is this book a solid, thoughtful argument on a many-stranded subject; it is a treasure house of references and citations to a vast and important literature.

Michael Novak, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, 1994 Templeton laureate

If you want angry partisanship and political name-calling, this is not the book for you. If you want wisdom, lots of fresh ideas, palpable good will, and intellectual seriousness, it is.

David Blankenhorn, Institute for American Values

Don Eberly and Ryan Streeter are two of America's most thoughtful students of civic and moral renewal. I plan to 'read unto others' their splendid call for a national movement to restore the Golden Rule to American life.

Adam Meyerson, president, The Philanthropy Roundtable

A major contribution to the continuing debate about the well-being of American democracy. . . . Without in any way downplaying the distinctiveness of the present, [Eberly and Streeter] call upon us to draw wisdom from the past. But, most of all, they orient us toward the future with dedication and hope, with faith in democracy and in one another.

Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Laura Spelman Rockeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; author of Just War Against Terror