Patriotism, democracy, and common sense
Subtitle: restoring America's promise at home and abroad
By: edited by Alan Curtis.
Contributors: Curtis, Alan, 1943-; Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation.
Publisher: Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation; Rowman & Littlefield; Distributed by National Book Network; Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation and Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]; Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Description: "Patriotism, Democracy, and Common Sense asks citizens and policy makers to move America forward by developing mutually supportive and complementary foreign, national security, Middle East, economic, domestic, inner city, media, campaign finance, and voting reform policies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The big picture / Alan Curtis; title: National security in the twenty-first century / Gary Hart; title: The challenge of managing dominance / Jessica Tuchman Mathews; title: A compromised Central Intelligence Agency : what can be done? / Ray McGovern; title: Does America have the wisdom to grasp the opportunity? / Clare Short; title: The courage to keep on talking / Vivien Stern; title: The European mistrust of American leadership / William Wallace; title: America needs Europe / Sophie Body-Gendrot; title: Challenging empire : the United Nations in a new internationalism / Phyllis A. Bennis; title: Speaking truth to power : preventive diplomacy backed by force / William D. Hartung; title: American foreign policy : a tragic "success" / Michael Parenti; title: Concern and credibility / David Corn; title: The necessity of persuasion : keeping Congress engaged / Alton Frye; title: Security and democracy in the post-September 11 era / Raymond Shonholtz; title: Village democracy and presidential leadership / Joseph C. Wilson IV; title: Domino democracy : challenges to U.S. foreign policy in a post-Saddam Middle East / Eric M. Davis; title: American leadership to create a two-state solution / Chris Toensing; title: Awakening the American political debate on Palestine and Israel / Laurie E. King-Irani; title: The future political and economic architecture of the Middle East / E. Roger Owen; title: We are still all Americans / Julian Borger; title: The financial, political, and moral deficits of the American empire / Jeff Faux; title: The coming budget crisis and the rising threat of large-scale federal disinvestment / Robert Greenstein; title: Full employment and the perils of empire / James K. Galbraith; title: Concentrated power without responsibility / Ralph Nader; title: Resequencing the DNA of capitalism / William Greider; title: The failure of "free market-tough state" ideology / Elliott Currie; title: September 11 and the criminal justice system / Marc Mauer; title: The missing debate / Richard C. Leone; title: It is time to break the silence / Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich; title: Civil liberties and effective investigation / Coleen M. Rowley; title: Creation of the media democracy reform movement / Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols; title: Electronic advocacy and fundraising : the state of the art / Eli Pariser; title: Electronic counter-power and collective action / Howard Rheingold; title: Independent reporting and the people's media / Amy Goodman; title: Lessons from 1964 / Eric Alterman; title: Thieves in high places / Jim Hightower; title: Generating political hope in a time of fear / Micah L. Sifry; title: Who has the emerging majority now? / Ruy Teixeira; title: American politics and policy : we don't have time to despair / Fred R. Harris.