Drift and Mastery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drift and Mastery write by Walter Lippmann. This book was released on 1914. Drift and Mastery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Drift and Mastery
Drift and Mastery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drift and Mastery write by Walter Lippmann. This book was released on 2015-05-13. Drift and Mastery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most influential documents of the Progressive Era, Drift and Mastery remains a valuable text for understanding the political thought of early twentieth-century America and a lucid exploration of timeless themes in American government and politics. A new foreword (by a former advisor to Elizabeth Warren) argues that Lippman's analysis of societal problems, and political actions needed to solve them, is highly relevant today.
Drift and Mastery
Drift and Mastery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drift and Mastery write by Walter Lippmann. This book was released on 1914. Drift and Mastery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Preface to Politics
A Preface to Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Preface to Politics write by Walter Lippmann. This book was released on 2021-03-23. A Preface to Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most incisive comment on politics to day is indifference. When men and women begin to feel that elections and legislatures do not matter very much, that politics is a rather distant and unimportant exercise, the reformer might as well put to himself a few searching doubts. Indifference is a criticism that cuts beneath oppositions and wranglings by calling the political method itself into question. Leaders in public affairs recognize this. They know that no attack is so disastrous as silence, that no invective is so blasting as the wise and indulgent smile of the people who do not care. I have put forward a preliminary sketch for a theory of politics, a preface to thinking. Like all speculation about human affairs, it is the result of a grapple with problems as they appear in the experience of one man. For though a personal vision may at times assume an eloquent and universal language, it is well never to forget that all philosophies are the language of particular men.
The Upswing
The Upswing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Upswing write by Robert D. Putnam. This book was released on 2020-10-13. The Upswing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to demonstrate how we have gone from an individualistic “I” society to a more communitarian “We” society and then back again, and how we can learn from that experience to become a stronger, more unified nation. Deep and accelerating inequality; unprecedented political polarization; vitriolic public discourse; a fraying social fabric; public and private narcissism—Americans today seem to agree on only one thing: This is the worst of times. But we’ve been here before. During the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarized, and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. However as the twentieth century opened, America became—slowly, unevenly, but steadily—more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society on the upswing, more focused on our responsibilities to one another and less focused on our narrower self-interest. Sometime during the 1960s, however, these trends reversed, leaving us in today’s disarray. In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, drawing on his inimitable combination of statistical analysis and storytelling, Robert Putnam analyzes a remarkable confluence of trends that brought us from an “I” society to a “We” society and then back again. He draws inspiring lessons for our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, putting us on a path to becoming a society once again based on community. Engaging, revelatory, and timely, this is Putnam’s most ambitious work yet, a fitting capstone to a brilliant career.
