A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on rights in the United States, and how to push back
An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights has been reimagined at pivotal moments in American history-from the American Revolution to the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Can today become another time of transformation?
Holding Together is about the promise of rights as a source of American identity, the struggle to realize rights by countless Americans to whom the promise has been denied or not fulfilled, the hijacking of rights by politicians who seek power by dividing and polarizing, and the way forward in which rights can bring Americans together instead of tearing them apart.
Drawing on a series of town hall meetings with representative groups of citizens across the country discussing their concerns over rights, new national opinion polls from all demographic groups and political perspectives conducted in 2020 and 2021, and extensive research, Holding Together is a road map for an American rights revival.
John Shattuck, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse present a comprehensive account of the current state of rights in the United States-and concrete recommendations to policy makers and citizens on how to reclaim them.
| ISBN: | 9781620977149 |
| Publication date: | 14th July 2022 |
| Author: | John H F Shattuck, Sushma Raman, Mathias Risse |
| Publisher: | The New Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 448 pages |
| Genres: |
Social discrimination and social justice Right-of-centre democratic ideologies Human rights, civil rights Constitution |
A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on rights in the United States, and how to push back
An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights has been reimagined at pivotal moments in American history-from the American Revolution to the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Can today become another time of transformation?
Holding Together is about the promise of rights as a source of American identity, the struggle to realize rights by countless Americans to whom the promise has been denied or not fulfilled, the hijacking of rights by politicians who seek power by dividing and polarizing, and the way forward in which rights can bring Americans together instead of tearing them apart.
Drawing on a series of town hall meetings with representative groups of citizens across the country discussing their concerns over rights, new national opinion polls from all demographic groups and political perspectives conducted in 2020 and 2021, and extensive research, Holding Together is a road map for an American rights revival.
John Shattuck, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse present a comprehensive account of the current state of rights in the United States-and concrete recommendations to policy makers and citizens on how to reclaim them.
Holding Together features in the following genres: Social discrimination and social justice, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Human rights, civil rights, Constitution
Holding Together is available in Hardback
Holding Together was written by John H F Shattuck, Sushma Raman, Mathias Risse and published by The New Press
Holding Together has 448 pages
£19.79