Reviews for Identity in Democracy

The average rating for Identity in Democracy based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-02 00:00:00 Kenneth Duncan While McCracken has insightful analyses of trends in the arts, and I picked up some interesting observations that he makes along the way to his main thesis, I don't find his big picture--the justification for writing the book--that compelling. For every current example of transformation he gives, I could find an example of somebody doing it centuries ago, and McCracken gives minimal attention to such historical parallels. If more of that kind of transformation is going on now, perhaps it's because there are more people alive, or more wealth and leisure, or more freedom in all things. Finally, while I was impressed with his breadth of scope, I sometimes thought he drew his view too broadly and forced a lot of things into his thesis that are described better with other frameworks.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-10-22 00:00:00 Darren Fraley Harrowing book, troubling, but how could the story of one woman's experience with domestic violence not be? What's especially compelling about this book is how the author frames each chapter around one woman's experience and then integrates other research to help make sense of Bernice's life. In this way, I think it might work very well in the undergraduate classroom to bring to life all the complicated parts of domestic violence and give students human, but also empirical, insight into this issue.