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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Pt. I | American Theory: Democracy, Liberalism, and Rights | |
| Ch. 1 | Liberal Democracy and the Costs of Consent | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Foundationalism and Democracy | 19 |
| Ch. 3 | Why Democracy Must Be Liberal: An Epitaph for Marxism | 31 |
| Ch. 4 | The Compromised Republic: Public Purposelessness in America | 41 |
| Ch. 5 | The Rights of We the People Are All the Rights There Are | 60 |
| Ch. 6 | Have Rights Gone Wrong? The Reconstruction of Rights | 79 |
| Pt. II | American Practice: Leadership, Citizenship, and Censorship | |
| Ch. 7 | Neither Leaders nor Followers: Citizenship under Strong Democracy | 95 |
| Ch. 8 | Command Performance: Where Have All the Leaders Gone? | 111 |
| Ch. 9 | The Undemocratic Party System: Citizenship in an Elite/Mass Society | 119 |
| Ch. 10 | One Nation Indivisible or a Compact of Sovereign States? The Two Faces of Federalism | 134 |
| Ch. 11 | The Market as Censor in a World of Consumer Totalism | 143 |
| Pt. III | Education for Democracy: Civic Education, Service, and Citizenship | |
| Ch. 12 | Thomas Jefferson and the Education of the Citizen | 161 |
| Ch. 13 | The Civic Mission of the University | 178 |
| Ch. 14 | Service, Citizenship, and Democracy: Civic Duty as an Entailment of Civil Right | 187 |
| Ch. 15 | Cultural Conservatism and Democratic Education: Lessons from the Sixties | 203 |
| Ch. 16 | America Skips School: Why We Talk So Much about Education and Do So Little | 214 |
| Ch. 17 | Education for Democracy | 225 |
| Pt. IV | Democracy and Technology: Endless Frontier or End of Democracy? | |
| Ch. 18 | The Second American Revolution | 237 |
| Ch. 19 | Pangloss, Pandora, or Jefferson? Three Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Democracy | 245 |
| Ch. 20 | The New Telecommunications Technology: Endless Frontier or the End of Democracy? | 258 |
| Index | 283 |
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Mark Caruso
reviewed A Passion for Democracy: American Essays on March 04, 2012 A Passion for Democracy
This book is a complete waste of time. Like Todd's excellent reviews mentions, it's basically a masturbatory exercise for the literary class on one of their favorite topics - how stupid people who disagree with them are.
The basic argument is that Conservatives abandoned Tanenhaus's interpretation of Edmund Burke, and so modern Conservatives aren't really Conservatives. This is because modern Conservatives (i.e. not of the vein Tanenhaus likes) don't believe government should grow and do too much for its citizens. Therefore, since Conservatives don't accept what Liberals and Tanenhaus believe, they're completely detached from reality, only concerned with ideology, and have nothing to offer America.
Seriously. The book is then filled in with cherry picked examples of how Liberals are so pragmatic and intelligent in adapting to the times while conservatives are blabbering racists. The book offers absolutely nothing of substance to the political debate. Tanenhaus doesn't demonstrate even a basic understanding of economic issues or anything except copious quoting and name dropping. It's a one sided rewriting of history, and Tanenhaus should be embarassed by the intellectual immaturity on display.
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