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The One and the Many: America's Struggle for the Common Good (Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lecture on American Civilization and Government)
The One and the Many America's Struggle for the Common Good - Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lecture on American Civilization and Government Author:Martin E. Marty, Harvard University Press E pluribus unum no longer holds. Out of the many have come as many claims and grievances, all at war with the idea of one nation undivided. A world-renowned authority on religion and ethics in America, Martin Marty here gives a judicious account of how the body politic has been torn between the imperative of one people, one voice, and the s... more »eparate urgings of distinct identities--racial, ethnic, religious, gendered, ideological, economic. While the grand story of oneness eludes us, Marty reminds us that we do have a growing and ever more inclusive repertory of myths, symbols and histories on which to draw. Thus he envisions steps we might take to carry America past the new turbulence.« less