Writing from Left to Right: My Journey from Liberal to Conservative - Couverture rigide

Novak, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0385347464 ISBN 13 : 9780385347464

Editeur : Image Books, 2013

Synopsis

In heavy seas, to stay on course it is indispensable to lean hard left at times, then hard right. The important thing is to have the courage to follow your intellect. Wherever the evidence leads. To the left or to the right. Michael Novak Engagingly, writing as if to old friends and foes, Michael Novak shows how Providence (not deliberate choice) placed him in the middle of many crucial events of his time: a month in wartime Vietnam, the student riots of the 1960s, the Reagan revolution, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Bill Clinton's welfare reform, and the struggles for human rights in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also spent fascinating days, sometimes longer, with inspiring leaders like Sargent Shriver, Bobby Kennedy, George McGovern, Jack Kemp, Václav Havel, President Reagan, Lady Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II, who helped shape and reshape his political views. Yet through it all, as Novak s sharply etched memoir shows, his focus on helping the poor and defending universal human rights remained constant; he gradually came to see building small businesses and envy-free democracies as the only realistic way to build free societies. Without economic growth from the bottom up, democracies are not stable. Without protections for liberties of conscience and economic creativity, democracies will fail. Free societies need three liberties in one: economic liberty, political liberty, and liberty of spirit. Novak s writing throughout is warm, fast paced, and often very beautiful. His narrative power is memorable.

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À propos de l'auteur

MICHAEL NOVAK received the 1994 Templeton Prize, an award that has also gone to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Mother Teresa, and Charles Taylor. He has taught at Harvard and Stanford and has held academic chairs at Syracuse University and Notre Dame, and now holds the Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Image Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385347464
• ISBN 13: 9780385347464
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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