Become America : civic sermons on love, responsibility, and democracy / Eric Liu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Eric, author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

United States.

Citizenship--United States.

Citizenship.

Political participation--United States.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 301 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Seattle : Sasquatch Books, [2019]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2019]

System Details:

text file

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 great awakening : 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 a time 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 our country : how to decode the myths that shape American identity, and how to write them anew.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

ISBN:

9781632172587

1632172585

Publisher Number:

99985138763

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.