Böcker av Benjamin R. Barber

Ideas and the presidency flirt with each other, but can they really get along?

Argues for participatory democracy without dependence on abstract metaphysical foundations, and stresses the relationship among democracy and civil society, civic education and culture. This book is divided into sections including 'American Theory: Democracy, Liberalism, and Rights' and 'American Practice: Leadership, Citizenship, and Censorship'.

"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book." -Jackson Lears

"Fear's Empire lays the foundation for a principled opposition based on America's truest and best values."--Senator Gary Hart

Offers liberal society a way of thinking about and of practicing democracy. This title argues that an excess of liberalism has undermined our democratic institutions and brought about the set of crises we find ourselves struggling against: cynicism about voting, alienation, privatization, and the growing paralysis of public institutions.