America's Legacy of Civic Idealism

The books that follow are original texts, anthologies, and scholarly works
 that highlight America's legacy of civic idealism. Not all of them are easy
 to find in bookstores, but we are pleased to make them available through
 this web site from Amazon Books:

Civic Idealism in Modern Politics

• A Testament of Hope: Martin Luther King, Jr. , James M. Washington, Ed.
• NetActivism: How Citizens Use the Internet, Ed Schwartz
• Beyond the Politics of Disappointment, Wilson Carey McWilliams
• Habits of the Heart , Robert Bellah, et.al.
• The Good Society , Robert Bellah, et.al.
• Unafraid of the Dark , Rosemary L. Bray
• The Soul of Politics , Jim Wallis
• Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age, Benjamin Barber
• Bowling Alone , Robert Putnam
• Making Democracy Work, Robert D. Putnam
• Who Will Tell The People William Greider
• Democracy's Discontent, Michael J. Sandel
• Building America, Harry Boyte; Nancy Kari
• Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, Mary Ann Glendon
• The Semi-Sovereign People, E.E. Schattschneider
• Reveille for Radicals , Saul Alinsky
• Community and the Politics of Place , Daniel Kemmis
• The Rebirth of Urban Democracy,  Berry, Portney & Ken Thomson
• Common Purpose,Lisbeth B. Schorr
• Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage , Lisbeth B. Schorr
• Building a Community of Citizens:, edited, Don E. Eberly
• Revolution and Renewal: How Churches are Saving Cities, Tony Campolo

                             Religious Origins

• The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry, edited, Perry Miller
• The New England Mind, Perry Miller
• From Colony to Province, Perry Miller
• The Myth of American Individualism, Barry Alan Shain

                       The American Founding

• The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America: 1683-1789 ,Joshua Miller
• The Anti-Federalist Papers , edited, Ralph Ketcham
• The Federalist Papers, Madison, Hamilton, Jay, edited, Clinton Rossiter
• The Portable Thomas Jefferson, edited, Merrill D. Peterson

                 The American Democratic Tradition

• Democracy in America, Vol. 1, Alexis de Tocqueville (Vintage Edition)
• Democracy in America, Vol. 2, Alexis de Tocqueville (Vintage Edition)
• The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation, edited, Diane Ravitch
• Lincoln on Democracy, edited, Mario Cuomo, et. al.
• A Documentary History of the Negro People, 1865-1910, Herbert Aptheker
• The Populist Moment,by Lawrence Goodwyn
• The Philosophy of Loyalty,by Josiah Royce

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