Research Catalog

Title

United we serve : national service and the future of citizenship / E.J. Dionne, Jr., Kayla Meltzer Drogosz, and Robert E. Litan, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Dionne, E. J., Jr.
• Drogosz, Kayla Meltzer.
• Litan, Robert E., 1950-

Description

xxiii, 327 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

National service > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-302) and index.

Contents

• United we serve? : the promise of national service / E.J. Dionne Jr. and Kayla Meltzer Drogosz -- Bowling together / Robert D. Putnam -- Will September 11 revitalize civic democracy? / Theda Skocpol -- Patriotism-lite meets the citizen-soldier / Charles Moskos -- The politics of service / Harris Wofford -- Service and the Bush Administration's civic agenda / John M. Bridgeland, Stephen Goldsmith, and Leslie Lenkowsky -- Patriotism means reaching beyond our self interest / John McCain -- The duties of democracy / William J. Clinton -- Thinking bigger about citizenship / Will Marshall and Marc Magee.
• Solving problems through service : labor and national service / Andrew L. Stern -- Doing well and doing good : the business community and national service / Jeff Swartz -- Flying colors : Americans after September 11 / David Winston -- A new greatest generation? / Peter D. Hart and Mario A. Brossard -- The obligations of September 11, 2001 : the case for universal service / Robert E. Litan -- A bad idea whose time has passed : the case against universal service / Bruce Chapman -- Comment : the case for universal service- again : a reply to Bruce Chapman / Robert E. Litan -- A solution in search of a problem / Michael Lind -- In power, but not in peril / Mark Shields -- Bring back the draft / Charles B. Rangel -- Dodgy drafters / Caspar W. Weinberger -- Degraded into a trade / John Lehman -- Military service and the middle class : a letter to my sons / Stephen Hess.
• The American military and the idea of service / Louis Caldera -- Empowering communities : the gift of the civil rights movement / Charles Cobb Jr. -- Is the era of recreational government bashing over? / Alice M. Rivlin -- Service in the pursuit of social justice / Daniel Blumenthal -- Profits through principles / Robert D. Haas -- A new citizenship for a new century / Alan Khazei -- First vote / Jane Eisner -- Can civic knowledge motivate the next generation? / William Galston -- Comment: Learning service at ground zero / Mason Anderson and Kayla Meltzer Drogosz -- Service and the state : should we politicize social bonds? / Tod Lindberg -- Civic innovation and public policy for democracy / Carmen Sirianni -- The volunteering decision : what prompts it? What sustains it? / Paul C. Light -- Civil society, religion, and the formation of citizens / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- The impact of religious involvement on civic life / Robert Wuthnow -- Challenging America's faithful / Steven Waldman -- Citizenship without politics? : a critique of pure service / Kayla Meltzer Drogosz -- Public work and the dignity of politics / Harry C. Boyte -- How people learn to be civic / Michael Schudson.

Call Number

JFE 05-7090

ISBN

• 0815718667 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0815718659 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003007543

OCLC

52001928

Title

United we serve : national service and the future of citizenship / E.J. Dionne, Jr., Kayla Meltzer Drogosz, and Robert E. Litan, editors.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-302) and index.

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Added Author

Dionne, E. J., Jr.

Drogosz, Kayla Meltzer.

Litan, Robert E., 1950-

Research Call Number

JFE 05-7090