Author: DAMON, WILLIAM
Title: Failing Liberty 101 How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society
Description: Stanford University, California: Hoover Institution Press, 2011. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0817913645. Hoover Institution Press Publication Series; 8.6 X 5.7 X 0.8 inches; xii, 148 pages; Hard cover has blue spine with silver lettering. DJ. NEW. 'The author argues that we are failing to prepare today's young people to be responsible American citizens--to the detriment of their life prospects and those of liberty in the United States of the future. He identifies the problems--the declines in civic purpose and patriotism, crises of faith, cynicism, self-absorption, ignorance, indifference to the common good--and shows that our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding, and behavior of large portions of the youth in our country today. ' Index.. New in New dust jacket .

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