A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism

by David H. Kamens

Book Overview

A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunteering, religiosity, and civic consciousness. Conspicuously, the WWII generation introduced collectivist notions of civic obligations-but such obligations have since become regarded as options. In this book, David H. Kamens takes this basic shift as his starting point for exploring numerous trends in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503609537
• ISBN13: 9781503609532
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"