Building a Healthy Culture: Strategies for an American RenaissanceDon E. Eberly Written by a team of stellar thinkers (including Zbigniew Brzezinski, Charles Krauthammer, Christopher Wolfe, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Stephen Goldsmith, and Michael Medved) this volume explores the state of American culture. The book is composed of more than thirty chapters, each of which explores the topic of culture renewal in a different sector of life. Describing solutions as well as problems, the authors offer fair and politically balanced strategies for promoting cultural health in today's society. Contributors include Stephen H. Balch (National Association of Scholars), Kevin Belmonte (William Wilberforce Papers Project at Gordon College), Elayne Glover Bennett (Best Friends Foundation), T. William Boxx (Philip M. McKenna Foundation and Center for Economic and Policy Education at Saint Vincent College), Zbigniew Brzezinski (Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and former National Security Advisor), Bruce Cole (Indiana University), Amitai Etzioni (George Washington University), John Fonte (Center for American Common Culture, Hudson Inst |
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THE IMPERATIVE OF BUILDING A HEALTHY CULTURE | 4 |
The Cultures Impact on World Affairs | 59 |
The Cultures Impact on Social Pathologies | 70 |
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