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Pedestal: What Makes American Democracy Stable And Why Your Everyday Thoughts, Words & Actions Determine Its Success Kindle Edition - Hardcover

Rosen, Raphael Chayim

 
9798330316304: Pedestal: What Makes American Democracy Stable And Why Your Everyday Thoughts, Words & Actions Determine Its Success Kindle Edition
Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9798330316304
Publisher: Castle Foundations Press, 2024

Synopsis

More than three-quarters of Americans today, from all across the political spectrum, fear for their democracy. While most popular attention centers on America's political institutions-presidents, legislatures, courts, political parties, & elections-historian, entrepreneur, and political philosopher Raphael Chayim Rosen argues this approach is upside down. The foundational strength of American democracy does not lie within institutions beyond the reach of ordinary Americans, but rather inside the quotidian thoughts, words, and deeds of citizens themselves. Merging insights across history, political philosophy, and modern psychology, Rosen takes his readers on a tumultuous journey through ancient Israelite legislators, classical Greek philosophers, Roman emperors, Enlightenment aristocrats, America's Founders, antebellum orators, Civil Rights leaders, and modern social psychologists to identify the specific cultural practices that have made American democracy survive its greatest threats. With forceful and compassionate clarity, Pedestal shows why Americans' everyday words and actions are the key to preserving their mighty, fragile democracy.

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About the Author

Raphael Chayim Rosen is an award-winning scholar of history, philosophy, and physics trained at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. He is also a novelist, patent-holding inventor, and one of Bloomberg's Top 25 Social Entrepreneurs in America. His work exploring the political culture, customs, and norms of American democracy appears in his regular substack column, Lady Liberty's Pedestal. He lives a short boat ride from the Statue of Liberty.

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Publisher
Castle Foundations Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 13 
9798330316304
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
304