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Köp båda 2 för 1761 krThis volume demonstrates how members of especially significant professions have contributed to our civic decline, but can also lead the needed renewal. Not every reader will agree with these authors diagnoses, nor their proffered cures, but that very debate would be a healthy reminder of our mutual civic obligations. Anyone who cares about Americas national civic healthand that should be everyoneought to read this book. -- David E. Campbell, University of Notre Dame Since professionals are among the most powerful citizens, strengthening citizenship requires rethinking the professions. The lucid, thoughtfully argumentative, intellectually diverse essays in this volume span an extraordinary range of professions and should provoke them all to reconsider their purposes and values. -- Peter Levine, Tufts University
Gary J. Schmitt is director of the American Enterprise Institutes Program on American Citizenship.
Chapter 1 The Role of Political Science and Political Scientists in Civic Education Chapter 2 Educating for Liberty? The Shortcomings of Contemporary Civic Education Theories Chapter 3 Tocquevilles Most Powerful Barrier: Lawyers in Civic Society Chapter 4 Americas Military Profession: Creating Hectors, not Achilles Chapter 5 Economists and Res Publica: The Virtues and Limits of Economic Analysis Chapter 6 Physician, Heal Thyself: Doctors in a Pluralist Democracy Chapter 7 Journalism and Citizenship Chapter 8 The Literary Profession and Civic Culture Chapter 9 The Practice of Science in a Democratic Society Chapter 10 Architects and Citizenship Chapter 11 Music and Civic Life in America Chapter 12 History in the Age of Fracture