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Civic Passions
Cecelia Tichi
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Description for Civic Passions
Paperback. Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us) Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 592.
This book describes the transformative power of citizen action. A gripping and inspiring book, ""Civic Passions"" examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who were confronted with a series of social, political, and financial upheavals that, in certain respects, seem eerily similar to modern times. The United States - then, as now - was riddled with political corruption, financial panics, social disruption, labor strife, and bourgeois inertia. Drawing on a wealth ... Read more
This book describes the transformative power of citizen action. A gripping and inspiring book, ""Civic Passions"" examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history. Starting from the late nineteenth century, when respected voices warned that America was on the brink of collapse, Cecelia Tichi explores the wisdom of practical visionaries who were confronted with a series of social, political, and financial upheavals that, in certain respects, seem eerily similar to modern times. The United States - then, as now - was riddled with political corruption, financial panics, social disruption, labor strife, and bourgeois inertia. Drawing on a wealth ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807871911
SKU
V9780807871911
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About Cecelia Tichi
Cecelia Tichi is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is author or editor of eleven books, including Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000, and was awarded the 2009 Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association.
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