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Opening essay: "Recovery Without a Reckoning"
End-essay: "Can America Save Itself from Decline?" (opening excerpt) |
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Can America Save Itself From Decline?: Politics, Culture, Morality In the belief that if any great nation can reverse its decline, America can---we believe in reinvention, we are not fatalists yet, but it will take stronger leadership and reform than seen to date---CARLA SEAQUIST in her commentary for The Huffington Post addresses this historic challenge from various angles---political, economic and financial, cultural and moral---all in the context of the American character. In an extended end-essay, Seaquist addresses the question posed in the book's title. Sample titles of 75 essays include: "Recovery without a Reckoning"; "Risk Management According to Moby-Dick"; "A War's Premise Must Justify the Troops' Suffering"; ""My Republican Mother Says Yes to Gun Control"; "Exceptional Nations Don't Bluster"; "Get Thee to Geneva, Mr. Obama: Your Drone Strikes Make Targets of Us All"; "Humor: There's Funny and There's Symptom of Decline"; "Free Speech vs. Responsible Speech"; and "Democrats Are 'Disgusted' with Politics? Boo Hoo."
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