Juxtaposing history and history-in-the-making, One Nation…Indivisible? tells the story of early challenges the new nation withstood and probes current failures in several key policy areas: the national and global economy, international relations, and immigration and immigrants. It demonstrates the urgency of returning to our original aims to govern respectively, collaboratively, and deliberately. The authors show that government is not the enemy; divisiveness, the loss of center, is.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Democracy American Style
Part I Organizing Government in America
1 What’s at Stake?
2 A Nation of States: Creating the Constitution
3 The Union Challenged
4 Organizing Government in the Twentieth Century
Part II Government, the Economy, and Citizens
5 What’s at Stake?
6 Hands-Off (Mostly)
7 Abiding Issues for Government in a Free Economy
8 Your Money: How Does Government Spend It?
9 FDR’s New Deal and the Fortunes of Capitalism Reconsidered
10 The Clinton Years
11 Government and the Global Economy: New Questions
Part III Foreign Policy: The Indispensable Nation?
12 What’s at Stake?
13 The United States and Globalization
14 Current Debates
15 Reaching the Present: Foreign Policy Through the World Wars
16 What Next?
Part IV Can the Center Hold?
A Case in Point: Immigration and Immigrants
17 What’s at Stake?
18 Issues in Immigration Policy
19 Bottom Lines: Economic and Labor Issues
20 Immigrant Policy: Where Are We Now? Why Does It Matter?
21 California and Beyond
Conclusion
Endnotes
References
Index
लेखक के बारे में
Sara S. Chapman, former President of The Sage Colleges, wrote this book during her terms as Visiting Research Scholar in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and as a Fellow in the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute. She is the author ofHenry James’s Portrait of the Artist as a Hero.
Ursula S. Colby is former Academic Dean of Russell Sage College.