Choosing Presidents: Symbols of Political LeadershipTransaction Publishers - 354 ページ In Choosing Presidents, Novak uses the election of an American president as a means to dissect the symbols of our national life and politics, exposing many as distorted perceptions of American realities. This work is a guide to the complexities of electoral politics and a lasting contribution to our understanding of the presidency.The author is Michael Novak. |
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... parties speak the five major symbolic languages of the nation , and which of the two can- didates better personifies the nation's sense of itself , the likely outcome also looms into view . For example , the " civil religion " of ...
... parties speak the five major symbolic languages of the nation , and which of the two can- didates better personifies the nation's sense of itself , the likely outcome also looms into view . For example , the " civil religion " of ...
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... Party seemed to me a sad mistake . I was then developing an allergy to the left wing of the party , which has not been cured since . With some difficulty I have remained a Democrat , while watching with sorrow the abdication by ...
... Party seemed to me a sad mistake . I was then developing an allergy to the left wing of the party , which has not been cured since . With some difficulty I have remained a Democrat , while watching with sorrow the abdication by ...
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... Party I thought of as the admirable and dynamic center of the party : labor union leaders , big city " bosses , " longtime elected Democrats in the congress and local government , Jewish and other ethnic organizations , " cold warriors ...
... Party I thought of as the admirable and dynamic center of the party : labor union leaders , big city " bosses , " longtime elected Democrats in the congress and local government , Jewish and other ethnic organizations , " cold warriors ...
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... party . To be sure , presidents often appoint to their cabinet one or more members of the other party , so the idea is not totally without precedent . Still , it is not a good idea . When one party controls one or both houses of ...
... party . To be sure , presidents often appoint to their cabinet one or more members of the other party , so the idea is not totally without precedent . Still , it is not a good idea . When one party controls one or both houses of ...
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... parties have declined in power , presidents more and more depend on their symbolic role for the accrual of politi- cal support ; they have few enough avenues to accrue it . Meanwhile , the American system of checks and balances is so ...
... parties have declined in power , presidents more and more depend on their symbolic role for the accrual of politi- cal support ; they have few enough avenues to accrue it . Meanwhile , the American system of checks and balances is so ...
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What Are Symbols? | 6 |
Who Are We? | 12 |
Unseen Power | 15 |
Egalitarian and King | 19 |
Five Elements of Symbolic Power | 29 |
Making the Most of Improbable Talents | 32 |
Traditional Symbols | 163 |
New Hampshire Snows | 166 |
The Wallace Sun | 179 |
McCarthy in Illinois | 190 |
Sorting Out in Wisconsin | 197 |
Together with McGovern at the Garden | 217 |
The Shooting of Governor Wallace | 229 |
Eight Major Presidential Symbols | 232 |
A Professionals Memo | 41 |
The Liturgy of Leadership | 48 |
MORALISM AND MORALITY | 55 |
Being Moral and Being Practical | 57 |
The Constituency of Conscience | 63 |
That Word Moral | 69 |
Vietnam More Moral Than Thou? | 74 |
The Rise and Fall of Liberal Moralism | 87 |
Beyond Niebuhr Symbolic Realism | 93 |
THE CIVIL RELIGIONS OF AMERICA | 103 |
The Nation with the Soul of a Church | 105 |
The Innocence Lingers On | 111 |
The Civil Religions | 123 |
Five Protestant Civil Religions | 131 |
HighChurch America | 137 |
The Second Great Tradition | 147 |
SYMBOLS OF 1972 | 161 |
A NEW AND DARK FAITH | 239 |
America as a Business | 241 |
Three Corruptions | 247 |
Reforming the Presidency | 258 |
The Necessity of Dirty Hands | 270 |
The Dark Night of Faith | 286 |
The New Dark Civil Religion | 302 |
AFTERWORD | 311 |
Carters Hidden Religious Majority | 313 |
Rival Visions of Community 1988 | 320 |
Moiling Muddling and Malaise | 334 |
Miracle in the Desert | 337 |
A Select Bibliography | 341 |
Index | 345 |
Abzug Bella 275 | 347 |
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