The Challenge of Politics
Suggested Readings
The following readings supplement those suggested in Chapter 6 of the text.
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Barber, Benjamin. Strong Democracy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
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Brinkley, Alan. Liberalism and Its Discontents. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Button, Mark. Contract, Culture and Citizenship: Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls. College Station: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.
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Dionne, E. J. Why Americans Hate Politics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
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Fallows, James. Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy. New York: Random House, 1996.
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Guinier, Lani. The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
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Hulling, Mark. The Social Contract in America. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. 2007.
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Kekes, John. Against Liberalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
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Lukacs, John. Democracy and Populism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.
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Mandelbaum, Michael. The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Public Affairs, 2002.
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Villa, Dana. Public Freedom. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.
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Viroli, Maurizio. For Love of Country: An Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Walzer, Michael. Politics and Passion: Toward a More Egalitarian Liberalism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
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Wolin, Sheldon. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.