Real Politics: At the Center of Everyday Life

by Jean Bethke Elshtain and Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain

Book Overview

One of America's foremost public intellectuals, Jean Bethke Elshtain has been on the frontlines in the most hotly contested and deeply divisive issues of our time. Now in Real Politics, Elshtain gives... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801855993
• ISBN13: 9780801855993
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Valuable criticism

About half of these essays are critical assaults on crank feminism and its circular logics, and that's always a welcome thing. Elshtain thinks clearly and writes lucidly.

level-headed honesty

This is difficult reading and well worth the time. Real Politics left me hopeful that there are acedemics who realize the growing chasm between reality and theory. Great book for those who like to question mainstream idealogies and are searching for why many of these ideas we are taught, often conflict with our own common sense. Excellent brain food.