The Rights Revolution: Rights and Community in Modern America

by Samuel E. Walker

Book Overview

The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights, a veritable "rights revolution" that is perceived by both conservatives and liberals as a threat to traditional values and our sense of community. Is it possible that our pursuit of personal rights is driving our country toward moral collapse?
In The Rights Revolution, Samuel Walker answers this question with an emphatic no. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019509025X
• ISBN13: 9780195090253
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"