Format:
Book
Author:
Liu, Eric, author.
Title:
Become America : civic sermons on love, responsibility, and democracy / Eric Liu.
Publisher, Date:
Seattle : Sasquatch Books, [2019]
Description:
xii, 301 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects:
Political culture -- United States.
Citizenship -- United States.
Political participation -- United States.
Contents:
A divided heart : how to face ourselves and our own role in the divisiveness of today's politics -- Present at the creation : how to make sense of this age of fragmenting narratives and competing truths -- If we can keep it : what it truly means to live like a citizen and to be responsible for a republic -- Alternate realities : what it takes to cross from one ideological bubble to another--and beyond -- Where is America? : how our everyday moral choices can sustain--or subvert--the rule of law -- A greatawakening : how the American body politic cycles through sleep, dreams, and wakefulness -- Legitimate doubts : why it's worth asking whether this democracy deserves to survive -- Fear and hoarding : how to resist scarcity thinking and status anxiety in atime of severe inequality -- Gratitude, luck, risk : how to be honest about privilege--and how to spend it on others -- A thanksgiving recipe : why you can't change someone's mind if you aren't willing to change yours -- A practicing citizen : what American civic religion is, why it matters, and how to practice it -- The citizen artist : how to cultivate civic imagination and perform civic power -- Which dream do you dream? : why we must understand the yearnings of both the insider and the outsider -- Become America : how to root the work of reckoning and repair in the places we call home -- Time travel : how we might choose differently if we could relive the last fifty years in America -- A test of our citizenship : what it should take for anyone--not just an immigrant--to be a citizen -- Are we enough? : why the American idea is in trouble--and why it takes only a few of us to revive it -- Too busy to love : what it means in the end to love one's country, one's neighbor, and one's enemy -- Reading ourcountry : how to decode the myths that shape American identity--and how to write them anew.
LCCN:
2018049487
ISBN:
9781632172570 : HRD
1632172577 : HRD
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
400627
Call Number:
323.6509 LIU 2019
Course Reserves:
0
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