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Tomorrow in America: Thinking Radically About Our Past and for Our Future
Tomorrow in America Thinking Radically About Our Past and for Our Future
Author: John Gibson
Tomorrow in America looks to the future by way of the past and the Reconstruction Era's Thaddeus Stevens. It presents Stevens as the "final founder and first re-founder" of the American Republic, because he was foremost in preparing the society of equal rights and opportunities that we believe in today. We think of Lincoln but l...  more » Stevens. The author argues that feudalism, socialism, and capitalism have failed and that our commercially-dominated culture has us steeped in nihilism. Drawing upon Stevens's non-ideological radicalism, he proposes a basic reform that would not reduce the number of social classes, but add one-with a mission.
ISBN-13: 9781604942828
ISBN-10: 1604942827
Publication Date: 5/15/2009
Pages: 168
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Publisher: Wheatmark
Book Type: Paperback
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