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"Remarkable. Schuck covers a number of especially hard issues with unusual sophistication, care, and balance."
--R. Shep Melnick, author of Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights"Schuck's in-depth chapters illustrate what high-quality public debate looks like."
--Mary Jo Bane, Harvard Kennedy School
About the author
Peter H. Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale University. His many books include
Why Government Fails So Often (Princeton),
Meditations of a Militant Moderate,
Diversity in America, and
Agent Orange on Trial.
Summary
How to think intelligently about the most divisive public issues confronting us today
We’ve all expressed opinions about difficult hot-button issues without thinking them through. With so much media spin, political polarization, and mistrust of institutions, it’s hard to know how to think about these tough challenges, much less what to do about them. One Nation Undecided takes on some of today’s thorniest issues and walks you through each one step-by-step, explaining what makes it so difficult to grapple with and enabling you to think smartly about it. In this unique what-to-do book, Peter Schuck tackles poverty, immigration, affirmative action, campaign finance, and religious objections to gay marriage and transgender rights. No other book provides such a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible analysis of these urgent social controversies. One Nation Undecided gives you the facts and competing values, makes your thinking about them more sophisticated, and encourages you to draw your own conclusions.
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“[Peter Schuck’s] richly detailed, tough-minded book will inform and challenge readers, whether they are on the political left, right, or center. . . . Schuck has given us a model for an informed citizenry. And, alas, a palpable demonstration that hard thinking isn’t easy.”—Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post
