Год выпуска: 2015 Автор: DANFORTH, JOHN Издательство: Страниц: ISBN: 9780812997903
Описание
In an era when 75% of Americans say that they cannot trust their government, and 50% of young Americans identify as Independents, this book is a heartfelt plea for compassion and faith-based values -- on both sides of the political spectrum, for both sides of the political spectrum -- and a call to arms. Today's politics runs on partisanship, on creating combat between competing interests in order to energize supporters. The result of this divisive strategy is an extreme version of the party spirit George Washington warned against in his Farewell Address in which commitment to the common good collapses. Now, former Senator John Danforth -- an Episcopalian priest as well as a former Attorney General and former Ambassador to the United Nations -- blends the personal and the political to argue that a sense of religion can lead us out of the embittered, entrenched state of politics today. A lifelong Republican, Danforth calls his own party to task for their part in creating a political...
