The Reconstruction of Patriotism: Education for Civic Consciousness

by Morris Janowitz

Book Overview

"A meticulous, well-tuned examination of what Janowitz says is the decline of civic thought in America, and what might be done to restore it. . . . The patriotism Janowitz proposes to reconstruct is not the sort of narrow nationalism your political science professor may have warned you about--patriotism as 'the last refuge of a scoundrel.' It is instead a patriotism that intelligently appreciates life in a (however imperfect) democratic land."--Robert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226393046
• ISBN13: 9780226393049
• Release Date: November 1983
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"