Eight Ways to Run the Country

Informationen zum Autor Brian Patrick Mitchell is the former Washington Bureau Chief of Investor's Business Daily . As a veteran political reporter and author, Mitchell has appeared on dozens of television and radio shows, including Face the Nation , Larry King Live , Today , Crossfire , and Nightline . He also has been a guest speaker at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Connecticut, and Catholic University of America. Klappentext Political partisans want you to choose only between Left and Right, Red and Blue, Us and Them. But the reality is that Americans are deeply divided in more ways than one, and the savvy voter, no less than the savvy politician, must make more sense of things. Eight Ways to Run the Country explains what conventional political theory cannot, offering a profoundly illuminating look at our political past and our present differences. Eight Ways doesn't do away with Left and Right, but it defines them in better terms and adds a whole new dimension to explain what Left and Right can't. It correctly pegs the ideological poles and thus brings easy-to-understand order to the dizzying diversity of political perspectives. It places neoconservatives into historical context, illuminating both what they share with other conservatives and how their differences have wrought a change in the character of the Right. It explains the recurring attempts to define an independent, non-ideological center. It provides the best definition of populism to be found. Finally, it relates the political heritage of the American Founders to the politics of today. Zusammenfassung Finally! it relates the political heritage of the American Founders to the politics of today. Eight Ways identifies four main traditions in the American political experience: republican constitutionalism! stressing traditional values and decentralized power; Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Schizocracy in America2. Beyond Left and Right3. For Common Things: The Communitarian4. Change Is Good: The Progressive5. Question Authority: The Radical6. Framework for Utopia: The Individualist7. Breaking the Clock: The Paleolibertarian8. For the Permanent Things: The Paleoconservative9. God and Country: The Theoconservative10. Mugged by Reality: The Neoconservative11. Postmodern Populism Notes Index ...

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Brian Patrick Mitchell is the former Washington Bureau Chief of Investor's Business Daily. As a veteran political reporter and author, Mitchell has appeared on dozens of television and radio shows, including Face the Nation, Larry King Live, Today, Crossfire, and Nightline. He also has been a guest speaker at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Connecticut, and Catholic University of America.

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Political partisans want you to choose only between Left and Right, Red and Blue, Us and Them. But the reality is that Americans are deeply divided in more ways than one, and the savvy voter, no less than the savvy politician, must make more sense of things. Eight Ways to Run the Country explains what conventional political theory cannot, offering a profoundly illuminating look at our political past and our present differences. Eight Ways doesn't do away with Left and Right, but it defines them in better terms and adds a whole new dimension to explain what Left and Right can't. It correctly pegs the ideological poles and thus brings easy-to-understand order to the dizzying diversity of political perspectives. It places neoconservatives into historical context, illuminating both what they share with other conservatives and how their differences have wrought a change in the character of the Right. It explains the recurring attempts to define an independent, non-ideological center. It provides the best definition of populism to be found. Finally, it relates the political heritage of the American Founders to the politics of today.

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Finally, it relates the political heritage of the American Founders to the politics of today. Eight Ways identifies four main traditions in the American political experience: republican constitutionalism, stressing traditional values and decentralized power;

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Preface 1. Schizocracy in America 2. Beyond Left and Right 3. For Common Things: The Communitarian 4. Change Is Good: The Progressive 5. Question Authority: The Radical 6. Framework for Utopia: The Individualist 7. Breaking the Clock: The Paleolibertarian 8. For the Permanent Things: The Paleoconservative 9. God and Country: The Theoconservative 10. Mugged by Reality: The Neoconservative 11. Postmodern Populism Notes Index