Common Ground

Common Ground
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How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destorying America

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فرمت کتاب

audiobook

تاریخ انتشار

2007

نویسنده

Bob Beckel

ناشر

HarperAudio

شابک

9780061554605
  • اطلاعات
  • نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی

AudioFile Magazine
Longtime friends Thomas and Beckel just want us to get along. Calling polarization an "insidious disease," the authors set out to debunk divisive political labels. Despite the extremist drumbeat from talk-radio and blog pundits, it is too easy--and inaccurate--to put us all in red or blue states, they say. Their theory is that too many people fall into a gray area that needs representation. Richard Rohan's fair tone brings home the authors' points, which are based on historical and contemporary research. Thomas and Beckel come from opposite ends of the political spectrum. Rohan steps aside to let each in his own voice define himself as conservative (Thomas) or liberal (Beckel), and at the end they appear together in a fun dialogue. M.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

Publisher's Weekly

August 13, 2007
Beckel and Thomas, political analysts and columnists for USA Today
, examine the problem of political polarization by asking, “Why are you reading this book?” The answer: “Bottom line... you are ticked off at politics.” Rigid partisan beliefs, they think, have become “more than a product of opposing ideologies”—they have created an “environment for the sole purpose of retaining political power, raising money, or making more money... benefit a few at the expense of many.” Using a mix of arguments and anecdotes, Beckel and Thomas (a liberal and a conservative, respectively) assert that polarization creates conscientious nonvoters and congressional roughhousing and deceit. The book's ultimate purpose is to disarm partisan warfare by encouraging voters and candidates to align themselves with principles that directly benefit the largest possible number of citizens. The lucid political discussion between a conservative and liberal is refreshing, but their proposals are too utopian to realistically be widely embraced. Their proposition that independent thinking can be more effective than an adversarial pack mentality is a step in the right direction, though.




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