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America's Promise Restored: Preventing Culture, Crusade, and Partisanship from Wrecking Our Nation
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America's Promise Restored: Preventing Culture, Crusade, and Partisanship from Wrecking Our Nationby Harlan Ullman
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Accurate and Honest Assessment of America's Political Future, July 13, 2006 Reviewer:David Bill (Worcester, MA USA) - Dr. Ullman's book, America's Promise Restored, is the kind of book that gives you the honest truth of America's political dilemma while providing clear and concise recommendations. As someone from generation X, I believe that Dr. Ullman's book gives the younger generations in America something to consider. The book clearly provides a historical context on how America arrived at this point but unlike many other books, it supplies the reader with viable solutions to prevent the issues of "culture, crusade, and partisanship from wrecking our nation". I have found this book to be highly readable and well thought out. As an educator, this book has been very useful as a resource inside and out of the classroom.
From Publishers Weekly
A former naval officer, Ullman is afraid that bureaucracy, rampant partisanship and a crusading foreign policy have rendered the United States government completely dysfunctional. He also worries that the rise of al-Qaeda and other organizations run by "Jihadist Extremists" constitutes a threat to the United States on par with that once posed by Nazi Germany. As a result, he says, "the United States may be in the gravest danger since the Civil War." Taking aim at special interest groups, both political parties, the Bush administration and even the Constitution itself, Ullman worries that the American system of government might not be able to adapt to today's mounting challenges. This is an ambitious contention, and one the book doesn't support very well. While providing solid historical background for the "War on Terrorism" and other major foreign policy issues, the book's sprawling structure occasionally dilutes the force of its arguments. However, the author does propose some governmental reforms that might appeal to public policy buffs. The most novel of these is a call for mandatory universal voting, in the belief that higher voter participation will lead to greater government accountability. (July)
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Book Description
America's Promise Restored is by one of America's foremost military and political thinkers. It shows how, if left unchecked, America’s current political culture and historical capacity for crusade — motivated and corrupted by ideology — will prove far more destructive than all of Bin Laden’s devilish intentions.
Contemporary American politics is destroying America’s relevance and influence abroad and its democratic values at home. This book shows how these forces evolved and have been transformed, fragmented, and perverted such that America has been broken by old political mindsets and harsh partisanship; how religion, ideological overtones, and excesses prevent rational policy. We also see that the forces threatening American democracy are an “antique” form of government that seems to be in permanent gridlock since it is driven, distorted and corrupted by self-interest. These things have engaged the nation in the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, as well as having intruded across inviolable political boundaries; and an extraordinarily dangerous yet misunderstood threat that can draw on tens of millions of converts — many of whom are prepared to die in the process of imposing a political-theological regime on a region rich in oil with access to nuclear weapons.
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Contemporary American politics is destroying America’s relevance and influence abroad and its democratic values at home. This book shows how these forces evolved and have been transformed, fragmented, and perverted such that America has been broken by old political mindsets and harsh partisanship; how religion, ideological overtones, and excesses prevent rational policy. We also see that the forces threatening American democracy are an “antique” form of government that seems to be in permanent gridlock since it is driven, distorted and corrupted by self-interest. These things have engaged the nation in the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, as well as having intruded across inviolable political boundaries; and an extraordinarily dangerous yet misunderstood threat that can draw on tens of millions of converts — many of whom are prepared to die in the process of imposing a political-theological regime on a region rich in oil with access to nuclear weapons.
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