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The American City: Civic Culture in Sociohistorical Perspective

by Daniel Monti

2021-01-05 06:51:20

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Does American have a sense of community and a vital civic culture?Are disparate groups capable of uniting as a single people who can call themselves Americans?Do Americans help each other for the common good?Daniel J. Monti, Jr. addresses these quest... Read more
Does American have a sense of community and a vital civic culture?Are disparate groups capable of uniting as a single people who can call themselves Americans?
Do Americans help each other for the common good?Daniel J. Monti, Jr. addresses these questions in this wide-ranging volume spanning three hundred years of American urban life. He reconciles liberal and conservative viewpoints and responds unequivocally, that "yes," Americans are indeed a community of believers and that a viable and vital civic culture exists in the United States despite notions of difference and apathy. Civic life in the US has been based on a set of rules predicated on prosperity and order as guiding principles to achieve a balance between private lives and the larger public good. " The American City" brings this notion forward and sheds a positive light on a world that focuses more often on the problems as opposed to the parts that work. Less

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