Civic Hope : How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Communication, Society and Politics
ISBN-10
1108435629
ISBN-13
9781108435628
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 22nd, 2018
Print length
370 Pages
Weight
510 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Political activismPress & journalism
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Based on a highly original analysis of 10,000 letters to the editor from 1948 through the present, Civic Hope is the most capacious history to date of what ordinary Americans think about politics and how they engage in argument.
Civic Hope is a history of what everyday Americans say - in their own words - about the government overseeing their lives. Based on a highly original analysis of 10,000 letters to the editor from 1948 to the present published in twelve US cities, the book overcomes the limitations of survey data by revealing the reasons for people''s attitudes. While Hart identifies worrisome trends - including a decline in writers'' abilities to explain what their opponents believe and their attachment to national touchstones - he also shows why the nation still thrives. Civic Hope makes a powerful case that the vitality of a democracy lies not in its strengths but in its weaknesses and in the willingness of its people to address those weaknesses without surcease. The key, Hart argues, is to sustain a culture of argument at the grassroots level.
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