Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00119UG76 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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American politics are as fractured and partisan as they have ever been and liberalism is in greater peril than at any time in recent history. Conservatives treat it as an epithet, and even some liberals have confused it with sentimentality and socialism. But Paul Starr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of America’s leading intellectuals, claims that, properly understood, liberalism is a sturdy public philosophy, deeply rooted in our traditions, capable of making America a freer and more secure country.
He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Social Transformation of American Medicine and The Creation of the Media. Starr is the co-founder and editor of The American Prospect. About the AuthorPaul Starr is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and its Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Herbert Gintis said Great Contribution to Defining Modern Liberalism in America. Paul Starr is Professor Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and grew up during the years of student radicalism in the USA, working for Ralph Nader about the time Nader wrote Unsafe at any Speed. Starr is a self-proclaimed and vigorous liberal in the Kennedy sense, and is one of the founders of The Public Prospect, which is probably the leading intellectual policy journal in the liberal camp.Starr wrote this book because "there was no cogent, concise, accessible, and up-to-date account of the liberal project." (p. x) Starr overall perspective is to illustrate the continuity between classical liberal. Not Convincing I read this book as a challenge from a liberal acquaintance. I came away unconvinced that the answer to loss of liberty is the continuing growth of government. Our rights are not enhanced by government; they are curtailed by it. Until people wake up to that fact, our individual freedoms will continue to be eroded by government. aided by people like Paul StarrI hope that America wakes up before it's too late. Know your history. Read the Founding Fathers. Don't fall for the false promises of those who want to steal your liberty, while claiming to want to enhance it!The "promise" of today's liberalism is fascism.. Political history and ideology of liberalism (2007) The history part is very well done with a succinct well written account of liberalism and conservatives in the nineteenth century morphing into socialism in Britain in the early twentieth century. It's accompanied by an interesting and informative history of progressivism in the US although Starr cites TR and WW while curiously omitting reference to W.J. Bryan whose cheap money promotion forms the cornerstone of current progressive government monetary policy. The ideological part is also well written, well sounding altruism, but full of logical self contradictions in the political arena. The author seems oblivious t
He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Social Transformation of American Medicine and The Creation of the Media. Paul Starr is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and its Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs. Starr is the co-founder and editor of The Ame