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Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life
Jossey-Bass
October 2005
496 pages
ISBN: 0787943118
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Three out of five Americans, both Republicans and
Democrats, feel our country is headed in the wrong
direction. America is at the edge, a critical place at
which we can either renew and revitalize or give in and
lose that most precious American ideal—democracy—and along
with it the freedom, fairness, and opportunities it
assures. Democracy’s Edge is a rousing battle cry that we
can—and must—act now. From Jefferson to Eisenhower,
presidents from both parties have warned us of the danger
of letting a closed, narrow group of business and
government officials concentrate power over our lives. Yet
today, a small and unrepresentative group of people is
making vital decisions for all of us. But this crisis is only a symptom, Lappé argues. It’s a
symptom of thin democracy, something done to us or for us,
not by or with us. Such democracy is always at risk of
being stolen by private interests or extremist groups, left
and right. But there is a solution. The answer, says
Lappé, is Living Democracy, a powerful yet often invisible
citizens’ revolution surging in communities across America.
It’s not random, disjointed activism but the emergence of a
new historical stage of democracy in which Americans
realize that democracy isn’t something we have but
something we do. Either we live it or lose it, says Lappé.
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