Böcker av Ron Hirschbein

This study of why certain events become and are remembered as crises while others are not, examines why American political figures define an event as a crisis. It then analyzes why some crises are managed prudently, while others are not, despite access to comparable information and resources.

At the dawn of the nuclear age, strategist Bernard Brodie recognized our predicament when he said, Nuclear weapons exist and they are incredibly destructive.

Hirschbein also examines how voting was transformed from an expression of the political will of the Athenian polity into a sacred natural right-only to be turned to a ritual of mass society. First, Hirschbein looks at the right to vote as the centerpiece of American civic religion.