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Challenging Authority : How Ordinary People Change America
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Piven, Frances Fax.
- Series:
- Polemics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil disobedience--United States.
- Elections--United States.
- Political culture--United States.
- Protest movements--United States--History.
- United States--Political and government--History.
- United States--Politics and government--History.
- Local Subjects:
- Civil disobedience--United States.
- Elections--United States.
- Political culture--United States.
- Protest movements--United States--History.
- United States--Political and government--History.
- United States--Politics and government--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope, and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in U.S. history, Piven shows that it is in fact precisely at those seismic moments when people act outside of political norms that they become empowered to their full democratic potential.
- Contents:
- Contents; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-49631-X
- 9786612496318
- 0-7425-6340-5
- OCLC:
- 244296285
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