United We Serve - National Service and the Future of Citizenship

Informationen zum Autor E.J. Dionne Jr. is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, cochair of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group. Kayla Meltzer Drogosz is the senior research analyst for the project on religion and civil society at the Brookings Institution. Robert E. Litan is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings and vice president for research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation. Klappentext This book gathers many diverse voices on civic life and civic obligation to explore the idea of national service as it relates to citizenship. The discussion about service is a debate over how Americans think of themselves and their nation-andabout what the "new patriotism" means Zusammenfassung Public rhetoric in the United States has always laid heavy stress on the obligations of citizenship. Bill Clinton praised the idea of service! and so does George W.

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• Authors: E. J. (EDT)/ Drogosz Dionne
• Assisted by: E. J. Dionne (Editor), E.J. Dionne (Editor), Kayla Meltzer Drogosz (Editor), Robert E. Litan (Editor)
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2003
• EAN: 9780815718666
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-1866-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education