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1 A Divided Heart: How to face ourselves and our own role in the divisiveness of today's politics |
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2 Present at the Creation: How to make sense of this age of fragmenting narratives and competing truths |
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3 If We Can Keep It: What it truly means to live like a citizen and to be responsible for a republic |
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4 Alternate Realities: What it takes to cross from one ideological bubble to another-and beyond |
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5 Where Is America?: How our everyday moral choices can sustain-or subvert-the rule of law |
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6 A Great Awakening: How the American body politic cycles through sleep, dreams, and wakefulness |
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7 Legitimate Doubts: Why it's worth asking whether this democracy deserves to survive |
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8 Fear and Hoarding: How to resist scarcity thinking and status anxiety in a time of severe inequality |
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9 Gratitude, Luck, Risk: How to be honest about privilege-and how to spend it on others |
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10 A Thanksgiving Recipe: Why you can't change someone's mind if you aren't willing to change yours |
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11 A Practicing Citizen: What American civic religion is, why it matters, and how to practice it |
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12 The Citizen Artist: How to cultivate civic imagination and perform civic power |
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161 | (15) |
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13 Which Dream Do You Dream?: Why we must understand the yearnings of both the insider and the outsider |
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14 Become America: How to root the work of reckoning and repair in the places we call home |
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15 Time Travel: How we might choose differently if we could relive the last fifty years in America |
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16 A Test of Our Citizenship: What it should take for anyone-not just an immigrant-to be a citizen |
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17 Are We Enough?: Why the American idea is in trouble-and why it takes only a few of us to revive it |
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18 Too Busy to Love: What it means in the end to love one's country, one's neighbor, and one's enemy |
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19 Reading Our Country: How to decode the myths that shape American identity-and how to write them anew |
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Acknowledgments |
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Reading Group Guide |
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Text Credits |
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