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Also by Gary Hart:

The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats, September 2006
Hardcover
The Shield and The Cloak, February 2006
Hardcover

THE COURAGE OF OUR CONVICTIONS: A MANIFESTO FOR DEMOCRATS
By: Gary Hart

An impassioned call to arms for Democrats to embrace the principles that made the party and the country great?a true moral vision for leadership at home and abroad

Times Books
September 2006
On Sale: September 5, 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0805081011
EAN: 9780805081015
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political

In this powerful and provocative manifesto, a cri de coeur for Democrats who have grown increasingly frustrated with their party’s leaders, former senator Gary Hart takes the Democrats to task for choosing caution and calculation in place of moral principles. That path, Hart says, will lead only to sorrow—for the party and for the country.

The Courage of Our Convictions is Hart’s call to action—a clear-eyed and plainspoken manifesto that urges a return to the principles bequeathed to the party by its great twentieth-century presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt’s commitment to a single national community, where no American would be left behind; Harry S. Truman’s internationalism, which preserved democracy after World War II and led eventually to the defeat of communism; John F. Kennedy’s ideal of civic duty and service to the nation; and Lyndon B. Johnson’s insistence on equality for all our citizens.

As the midterm elections approach—and with the 2008 presidential election just over the horizon—Hart speaks directly and passionately to the many Democrats who seek a principled change of leadership in Washington. It is the wake-up call that so many Americans have been waiting for.

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