A time to build, from family and community to Congress and the campus : how recommitting to our institutions can revive the American dream

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A time to build, from family and community to Congress and the campus : how recommitting to our institutions can revive the American dream

Title remainder

how recommitting to our institutions can revive the American dream

Statement of responsibility

Yuval Levin

Creator

• Levin, Yuval

Author

• Levin, Yuval

Subject

• Consensus (Social sciences) -- History -- 21st century
• Electronic books
• American Dream
• United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• Associations, institutions, etc. -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"Americans are living through a social crisis. Populist firebrands -- on left and right alike -- propose to address the crisis through acts of tearing down. They describe themselves as destroying oppressive establishments, clearing weeds, draining swamps. But, as acclaimed conservative intellectual Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription, rooted in a defective diagnosis. The social crisis we confront is defined not by an oppressive presence, but by a debilitating absence of forces that unite us and militate against alienation"--

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Provided by publisher

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DLC

Dewey number

306.0973

Index

index present

LC call number

HN59.2

LC item number

.L494 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography