The courage of our convictions
Subtitle: a manifesto for Democrats
By: Gary Hart
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Times Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780805081015
Subjects: Politics and government; Demokratische Partei (USA); Democratic Party (U.S.)
Description: Argues that Democrats should promote a leadership style emphasizing moral principles over caution and calculation, and encourages a return to commitment to a single national community, internationalism, civic duty, and national service.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: I: The crisis of the Democratic party; title: Profiles in caution and calculation; title: The party of timidity; title: Knowing where we came from; title: The hedgehog and the fox; title: II: Leadership for the twenty-first century; title: Climbing out of the big muddy; title: The neglected world beyond Iraq; title: Twentieth-century principles in a twenty-first-century world; title: A new definition of security; title: Liberty and security; title: Stewards of the earth; title: Citizen duty; title: A new vision for America; title: The indispensable political party; title: A twenty-first-century democratic manifesto.