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Book Review List

The book review portion of the requirements is due Thursday, March 14, the class period directly before Spring Break. Papers can be turned in before this time but will be graded and returned in any case after Spring Break. All of the following books are available at Hale Library. You must choose one of the following.

Catherine Albanese, Sons of the Fathers: The Civil Religion of the American Revolution, 1976.

Robert Bannister, Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought, 1979.

Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy, 1984.

Daniel Bell, Communitarianism and Its Critics, 1994.

Robert Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial, 1975.

Robert Bellah, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, 1985.

Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen, et. al., The Good Society, 1991.

Robert Bellah, Individualism and Commitment in American Life: Readings on the Themes of Habits of the Heart, 1987.

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students, 1987.

Robert Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics, 1989.

Robert Booth Fowler, The Dance With Community: The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought, 1991.

Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 1962.

Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 2000.

Bruce Frohnen, Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State, 1991.

Carol Gould, In a Different Voice, 1984.

C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, 1947.

Theodore Lowi, The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States, 1979.

Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, 1981.

Jane Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy, 1980.

Ralph McInerny, ed., Modernity and Religion, 1994.

Michael Valdez Moses, The Novel and the Globalization of Culture, 1995.

Charles Murray, In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government, 1994.

Charles Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980, 1984.

John Courtney Murray, We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition, 1960.

Robert Nisbet, The Quest for Community, 1953.

Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, 1984.

Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, 1991.

Susan Okin, Justice, Gender and the Family, 1989.

David Osborne and Ted Gaebler, Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector, 1993.

Thomas Pangle, The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke, 1988.

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 1974.

John Rawls, Justice as fairness : a restatement, 2001.

Nancy Rosenblum, ed., Liberalism and the Moral Life, 1989.

Richard Rosecrance, The Rise of the Virtual State: Wealth and Power in the Coming Century, 1999.

Michael Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, 1982.

Ellis Sandoz, A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion, and the American Founding, 2001.

Philip Selznick, The Moral Commonwealth: Social Theory and the Promise of Community, 1992.

Barry Shain, The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought, 1994.

Christina Hoff Sommers, editor, Person to Person, 1989.

William M. Sullivan, Reconstructing Public Philosophy, 1982.

Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity, 1991.

Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism, 1994.

Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, 1989.

John Tomlinson, Cultural Imperialism, 1991.

Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice, 1983.

Lenore Weitzman, The Divorce Revolution, 1985.

Robert Westbrook, John Dewey and American Democracy, 1992.

Morton White, The Philosophy of the American Revolution, 1978.

Garry Wills, Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders, 1994.

Garry Wills, Explaining America: The Federalist, 1981.

Garry Wills, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, 1978.

Garry Wills, Under God: Religion and American Politics, 1990.

Gordon Wood, Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, 1969.