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Our Divided Political Heart
E.J. Dionne
The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent
Bloomsbury
June 2012
On Sale: May 22, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 1608192016
EAN: 9781608192014
Kindle: B007N6JDEI
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Our Divided Political Heart will be the must-read
book of the 2012 election campaign. Offering an incisive
analysis of how hyper-individualism is poisoning the
nation’s political atmosphere, E. J. Dionne Jr. argues that
Americans can’t agree on who we are because we can’t agree
on who we’ve been, or what it is, philosophically and
spiritually, that makes us Americans. Dionne takes on the
Tea Party’s distortions of American history and shows that
the true American tradition points not to radical
individualism, but to a balance between our love of
individualism and our devotion to community. Dionne
offers both a fascinating tour of American history—from the
Founding Fathers to Clay and Lincoln and on to the
Populists, the Progressives and the New Dealers—and also an
analysis of our current politics that shatters conventional
wisdom. The true American idea, far from endorsing
government inaction or indifference, has always viewed the
federal government as an active and constructive partner
with the rest of society in promoting prosperity,
opportunity, and American greatness. The ability of
the American system to self-correct is its greatest asset
and Dionne challenges progressives to embrace the American
story. Our fractious but productive past offers us the
resources both to rediscover the idea of progress and to put
an end to our fears of decline. Our Divided Political
Heart will be required reading for all who seek a path
out of our current impasse.
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