The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place & Community in a Global Age
"Humility? Rootedness? Contentment? These qualities are not glaringly evident in modern America, which is why Mark T. Mitchell’sThe Politics of Gratitudeis so refreshing and so very welcome. With wisdom and a generous spirit, Mitchell proposes a humane and home-centered refocusing of American life along lines that are 'local, limited, modest, republican, grateful, and green.' His book is cause for gratitude—and a spur to (local!) action."—Bill Kauffman,  author ofAin’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism"Anyone frustrated with the dead-end politics of contemporary liberalism and conservatism, with their rote formulas and empty pieties, will cherish Mark T. Mitchell’s plainspoken, profound book. One of the rising stars of a new generation of alternative conservative political theorists and cultural critics, Mitchell both thinks and writes with an engaging clarity that is illuminating, convincing, and at times even exhilarating.The Politics of Gratitudecomes from somewhere between the Athenian agora and a front porch in Kentucky."—Rod Dreher, senior editor of the American Conservative and author ofCrunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots