Kevin Mattson Up from Conservatism The Future of Liberalism Alan Wolfe Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95, 335 pp. messiah.edu T here is a poignant account of the sociologist Richard...
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Short Takes Kevin Mattson The Center Can Hold WHY DEMOCRATSSHOULD NOT FEAR COMPROMISE A t first glance, as the 2008 campaign swings into high gear, prospects for the Democratic Party...
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Books Kevin Mattson A One.Man Think Tank Richard Hofstadter An Intellectual Biography David S. Brown University of Chicago Press, $27.50, 282 pp. H istory is one of the few...
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Kevin Mattson FROM THE HEARTLAND Could Kerry have won Ohio? A sadness has set in. Throughout my small town in southeastern, Appalachian Ohio, people ask, "How's it going?" Typically you hear,...
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ALL POLITICS IS NATIONAL Diminished Democracy From Membership to Management in American Civic Life Theda Skocpol University of Oklahoma Press, $29.95,366 pp. Kevin Hattson To make a dent in...
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BIG BAD IDEAS The Reckless Mind Mark Lilla New York Review Books, $24.95, 216 pp. Kevin Mattson Mark Lilla, who teaches in the University of Chicago's Com-mittee on Social Thought, has written...
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Solidarity forever? Kevin Mattson It's a cliche, but the personal is political. Two stories from my days living in New Jersey say a lot about American labor. First, attending a union-sponsored...
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WHAT HATH BARRY WROUGHT? Before the Storm Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus Rick Perlstein Hill and Wang.. $.30, 671 fy. Kevin Hattson__________ The mystic chords of...
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curia was morbidly suspicious of the pow- interested in following up the sources, my attention in such inauspicious cir- ers of local bishops (so unlike, in this re- everything is...
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