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Work to Live: The Guide to Getting a Life takes a comprehensive look at one of America's most perplexing problems - the need to spend more time with family and less time at work. In addition to personal advice, it includes some very fascinating public policy insights and solutions. Review
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Once Upon a Town tells the story of the people of North Platte, Nebraska during World War II. A clear demonstration of "giving back," these patriots made sure every solider passing through town on the train got the royal treatment. The book is filled with great lessons for building community today.
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Civic Innovation in America reviews the nation's efforts to revive civic life. This work looks at everyday citizens taking responsibility for engaged in the shared tasks the build communities and finding ways to collaborate across all kinds of professional, organization and class boundaries.
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Moral Freedom explores how Americans look at values like loyalty, honesty, self-restraint and forgiveness. Alan Wolfe finds that morals are shaped based on personal experience, rather than religious texts or dogmas. He writes, "Americans want faith and freedom simultaneously."
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The Dream and the Nightmare contends the influences of the 1960s counterculture are especially detrimental to the very poverty-stricken people liberals are trying to help today. Magent explains how neither the blame-the-victim mentality nor victimology has been helpful.
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Race, Crime and the Law confronts both the right and the left. Kennedy goes after conservatives who oppose race-based affirmative action but look the other way on racial profiling. He takes on liberals for discouraging more police in minority neighborhoods being overwhelmed by crime.
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The Divorce Culture follows the evolution of divorce from a last resort to a means of self-expression and personal growth. Whitehead strongly encourages us to realize that divorce is very bad for children and is doing significant damage to our social fabric.
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Fixing Broken Windows proves that community policing and confronting public disorder are very effective crime-fighting strategies. If "broken windows" are fixed, graffiti, public drunkenness, low-level drug dealing - an atmosphere conducive to criminal behavior - can be prevented.
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All That We Can Be looks to the armed forces - where racial integration and minority achievement have progressed successfully - as a model for how affirmative action can work across society. The military model works because of a strong commitment to equal opportunity and performance standards.
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Renewing American Compassion argues for churches, community leaders and ordinary citizens to reinvent the war on poverty with a renewal of faith-based charity. An advisor to President Bush, Olasky believes that effective compassion takes active participation in the lives of the needy.
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The Soul of Politics confronts the liberal and conservative visions of how to solve issues like racism, economic justice and youth crime. Advocating a reintegration of politics and spirituality, Wallis seeks a new morality combining social justice with personal responsibility.
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The Tragedy of American Compassion, the foundation of "compassionate conservatism," argues that helping the poor requires "small-scale personal involvement, rather than large-scale administered relief." The book is now the conservative movement's rallying cry on welfare reform and social policy.
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