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The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition (edició 2004)

de George McGovern

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Liberalism is the oldest and most enduring American tradition, a philosophy and way of life we inherited from the Founding Fathers. This is the central idea of The Essential America by George McGovern, America's best-known (and most consistent) liberal. Referring us to our moral and spiritual foundations, McGovern not only presents a resounding defense of liberalism as "the most practical and hopeful compass to guide the American ship of state" but offers specific proposals for keeping the tradition vibrant. The Essential America proposes programs for feeding the world's malnourished children. Rather than sending our armies abroad, McGovern spells out policies that confront the causes of terrorism. He proposes cutting our military budget (echoing Dwight D. Eisenhower's powerful warning about the military-industrial complex). He condemns preemptive war, criticizes tax cuts for the rich, and warns against government for the powerful minority. Americans have traditionally stood for progress, generosity, tolerance, and protection of the needy, McGovern states -- as well as for multi- lateralism in foreign policy and "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind." He reminds us that while creative tension between liberalism and conservatism is the genius of American politics, it is the liberals who have been responsible for every forward step in our national history. They built "the Essential America."… (més)
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Títol:The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition
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Informació:Simon & Schuster (2004), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 192 pages
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Chapter 1 -- Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards, They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, 1927
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To my parents, Frances and Joe; Eleanor's parents, Marian and Earl; Olive and Larry; Ila and Bob; Pete, Harry, and George; and to our special friends, Ward CLark, Bill Towner, Joe Floyd, and Steve Ambrose, and of course, to precious terry -- all of these in the realm of the mystery beyond.
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My father, J. C. McGovern, was a Methodist clergyman -- a follower of the eighteenth-century English founder of Methodism, John Wesley
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I believe deep in my soul that the wisdom, spirituality, and commons sense of our founders can best guide the American Ship of state. This remarkable group of men led us to independence and freedom, preserved the Union, and gave us the greatest Constitution in human history -- a document that opens with this enduring statement of national purpose: 'To ... establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.'
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Liberalism is the oldest and most enduring American tradition, a philosophy and way of life we inherited from the Founding Fathers. This is the central idea of The Essential America by George McGovern, America's best-known (and most consistent) liberal. Referring us to our moral and spiritual foundations, McGovern not only presents a resounding defense of liberalism as "the most practical and hopeful compass to guide the American ship of state" but offers specific proposals for keeping the tradition vibrant. The Essential America proposes programs for feeding the world's malnourished children. Rather than sending our armies abroad, McGovern spells out policies that confront the causes of terrorism. He proposes cutting our military budget (echoing Dwight D. Eisenhower's powerful warning about the military-industrial complex). He condemns preemptive war, criticizes tax cuts for the rich, and warns against government for the powerful minority. Americans have traditionally stood for progress, generosity, tolerance, and protection of the needy, McGovern states -- as well as for multi- lateralism in foreign policy and "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind." He reminds us that while creative tension between liberalism and conservatism is the genius of American politics, it is the liberals who have been responsible for every forward step in our national history. They built "the Essential America."

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