Choosing presidents : symbols of political leadership

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書誌事項

Choosing presidents : symbols of political leadership

Michael Novak, expanded with a new introduction by the author

Transaction Publishers, c1992

2nd ed

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注記

Rev. ed. of: Choosing our king. 1974

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-346) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In Choosing Presidents, Novak uses the election of an American president as a means to dissect the symbols of our national life and politics, exposing many as distorted perceptions of American realities. This work is a guide to the complexities of electoral politics and a lasting contribution to our understanding of the presidency.The author is Michael Novak.

目次

  • One: Priest, Prophet, King
  • 1: Symbolic Realism
  • 2: What Are Symbols?
  • 3: Who Are We?
  • 4: Unseen Power
  • 5: Egalitarian and King
  • 6: Five Elements of Symbolic Power
  • 7: Making the Most of Improbable Talents
  • 8: A Professional's Memo
  • 9: The Liturgy of Leadership
  • Two: Moralism and Morality
  • 10: Being Moral and Being Practical
  • 11: The Constituency of Conscience
  • 12: That Word Moral
  • 13: Vietnam: More Moral Than Thou?
  • 14: The Rise and Fall of Liberal Moralism
  • 15: Beyond Niebuhr: Symbolic Realism
  • Three: The Civil Religions of America
  • 16: The Nation with the Soul of a Church
  • 17: The Innocence Lingers On
  • 18: The Civil Religions
  • 19: Five Protestant Civil Religions
  • 20: High-Church America
  • 21: The Second Great Tradition
  • Four: Symbols of 1972
  • 22: Traditional Symbols
  • 23: New Hampshire Snows
  • 24: The Wallace Sun
  • 25: McCarthy in Illinois
  • 26: Sorting Out in Wisconsin
  • 27: Together with McGovern at the Garden
  • 28: The Shooting of Governor Wallace
  • 29: Eight Major Presidential Symbols
  • Five: A New and Dark Faith
  • 30: America as a Business
  • 31: Three Corruptions
  • 32: Reforming the Presidency
  • 33: The Necessity of Dirty Hands
  • 34: The Dark Night of Faith
  • 35: The New Dark Civil Religion
  • Six: Afterword
  • 36: Carter's Hidden Religious Majority
  • 37: Rival Visions of Community, 1988
  • 38: Moiling, Muddling, and Malaise
  • 39: Miracle in the Desert

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