Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America

by Nancy L. Rosenblum

Book Overview

How our everyday interactions as neighbors shape--and sometimes undermine--democracy

"Love thy neighbor" is an impossible exhortation. Good neighbors greet us on the street and do small favors, but neighbors also startle us with sounds at night and unleash their demons on us, they monitor and reproach us, and betray us to authorities. The moral principles prescribed for friendship, civil society, and democratic public life apply imperfectly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691169438
• ISBN13: 9780691169439
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"