Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics

This distinctive reader is the only collection of truly critical readings on American government available. Its approach goes far beyond the mainstream debate between liberalism and conservatism to fundamentally challenge the status quo, stimulating reconsideration about what are sometimes assumed to be "givens" within the American system.P style=MARGIN: 0px*selections new to this edition/PP style=MARGIN: 0px /PP style=MARGIN: 0pxBContents/BB /B/PP style=MARGIN: 0pxBPreface/BB /B/PP style=MARGIN: 0pxBIntroduction: Why aICritical/IReader?/B/PP style=MARGIN: 0px /PP style=MARGIN: 0pxBPART I: STRUCTURE/B/PP style=MARGIN: 0px /PP style=MARGIN: 0pxBChapter 1: Democracy and Political Economy/B/PP style=MARGIN: 0px /PP style=MARGIN: 0px1. Jim Hightower, "This Land is Your Land" /PP style=MARGIN: 0px*2. Susan George, "A Short History of Neo-liberalism"/PP style=MARGIN: 0px3. Dan Clawson, Alan Neustadtl, Mark Weller, "Why Does the Air Stink? Corporate Power and Public Policy"/PP style=MARGIN: 0px4. John Bellamy Foster, "Global Ecology and the Common Good"/PP style=MARGIN: 0px /PP style=MARGIN: 0pxBChapter 2: Ideology and Political Culture/B/PP style=MARGIN: 0px /PP style=MARGIN: 0px5. Jennifer L. Hochschild, "What is the American Dream" /PP style=MARGIN: 0px6. Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton, "Liberal Individualism and the Crisis of Citizenship"/PP style=MARGIN: 0px*7. Michelle Goldberg, "Kingdom Coming: Resisting the Power of the Christian Right"/PP style=MARGIN: 0px8. Robert Jensen, "The Greatest Nation on Earth"/PP style=MARGIN: 0px /PP style=MARGIN: 0pxBChapte