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The Last Best Hope: A Democracy Reader

ISBN: 978-0-7879-5681-3
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304 pages
March 2001, Jossey-Bass
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Source Texts.

Introduction (S. Goodlad).

Acknowledgements.

The Editor

WHY DEMOCRACY?

Democracy (N. Postman).

An Aristocracy of Everyone (B. Barber).

CONCEPTS AND COMPLEXITIES.

What Makes Democracy Work? (R. Putnam).

The Democratic Virtues (C. Lummis).

Was Democracy Just a Moment? (R. Kaplan).

CITIZENSHIP AND CHARACTER.

The Masses in Representative Democracy (M. Oakeshott)

Reorientation in Education (B. Bode).

The Education of Character (M. Buber).

DEMOCRACY AND ITS TROUBLES.

Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order (N. Chomsky).

Law and Justice (H. Zinn).

Jefferson, Morrill, and the Upper Crust (W. Berry).

THE PUBLIC AND THE PERSONAL.

Democracy and Human Nature (J. Dewey).

Egalitarian Solidarity (P. Green).

Moral Imagination (M. Johnson).

EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.

How Colleges of Education Package the Myth of Modernity (C. Bowers).

Democratic Education in Difficult Times (A. Gutmann).

What Is Education For? (D. Orr).

HUMAN POTENTIAL AND DEMOCRACY'S FUTURE.

The Domain of the Future (M. Csikszentmihalyi).

Practical Utopianism (M. Midgley).

Index.

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