Holding Together
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“A spirited defense of the political and civil rights that Americans enjoy—and that are constantly being chipped away.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A lucid primer on many of today’s most pressing political and social issues.”
—Publishers Weekly
“There is no better book—a blueprint really—to guide us into and past the potentially fractious decade ahead.”
—Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land, a finalist for the National Book Award
“In an era of corrosive mistrust, this fact-filled guidebook is a vital resource for every citizen to help rescue and uphold free self-government by ‘We the People.’”
—Taylor Branch, author of Parting the Waters
“This is an indispensable study, more timely than ever, carefully documenting threats to our rights and eloquent in arguing for measures needed to come to their defense.”
—Sissela Bok, philosopher, ethicist, and author of Lying
“An immensely valuable and engaging book. . . . No matter what your views are, you will come away much wiser about the challenges facing all who seek to build a good society.”
—E.J. Dionne Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart and co-author of 100% Democracy
“Everyone looking for a path to safeguard the future of our democracy should read this book.”
—Archon Fung, co-founder of the Transparency Policy Project and professor of citizenship and democracy at Harvard University
“A powerful account of today’s rights crisis in America . . . this book helps us imagine a future of rights for everyone.”
—Anthony D. Romero, executive director, ACLU
“The heart of Holding Together is resoundingly hopeful. Shattuck, Raman, and Risse provide a timely call to action for everyone who is concerned with closing the gap between our democratic ideals and what is real.”
—Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on American rights, and how to push back, from experts at the Fletcher School at Tufts and the Carr Center at Harvard
Americans are bound together not by blood ties but by the promise of rights-rights for everyone.
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Americans are bound together not by blood ties but by the promise of rights-rights for everyone. An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights has been reimagined at pivotal moments in American history-from the Revolution to the Civil Rights Movement. Can today become a similar time of transformation?
Holding Together is a major account of the threats to rights in the United States in the twenty-first century, and the new opportunity to address them. Drawing on a series of town hall meetings of representative groups of citizens across the country discussing their concerns over rights, new national opinion polls from all demographic groups and political perspectives conducted in 2020 and 2021, and extensive research, Holding Together is a road map for an American rights revival.
In fifteen accessible chapters dealing with voting rights, freedom of speech, criminal justice, gun rights, LGBTQ+ rights, disability rights, religious freedom, privacy, immigration, and more, three renowned thought-leaders, including a former assistant secretary of state, John Shattuck, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse present a comprehensive account of the current state of rights in America-along with concrete recommendations to policy makers and citizens for reimagining them.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- The New Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781620977149
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«
Praise for Holding Together:
»
“A spirited defense of the political and civil rights that Americans enjoy—and that are constantly being chipped away.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A lucid primer on many of today’s most pressing political and social issues.”
—Publishers Weekly
“There is no better book—a blueprint really—to guide us into and past the potentially fractious decade ahead.”
—Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land, a finalist for the National Book Award
“In an era of corrosive mistrust, this fact-filled guidebook is a vital resource for every citizen to help rescue and uphold free self-government by ‘We the People.’”
—Taylor Branch, author of Parting the Waters
“This is an indispensable study, more timely than ever, carefully documenting threats to our rights and eloquent in arguing for measures needed to come to their defense.”
—Sissela Bok, philosopher, ethicist, and author of Lying
“An immensely valuable and engaging book. . . . No matter what your views are, you will come away much wiser about the challenges facing all who seek to build a good society.”
—E.J. Dionne Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart and co-author of 100% Democracy
“Everyone looking for a path to safeguard the future of our democracy should read this book.”
—Archon Fung, co-founder of the Transparency Policy Project and professor of citizenship and democracy at Harvard University
“A powerful account of today’s rights crisis in America . . . this book helps us imagine a future of rights for everyone.”
—Anthony D. Romero, executive director, ACLU
“The heart of Holding Together is resoundingly hopeful. Shattuck, Raman, and Risse provide a timely call to action for everyone who is concerned with closing the gap between our democratic ideals and what is real.”
—Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights