Free shipping on all orders over $79* Limited Time Only
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
In Praise Of Public Life - Joseph I. Lieberman

In Praise Of Public Life

By: Joseph I. Lieberman, Michael D'Orso

eBook | 8 August 2000

At a Glance

eBook

$9.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $2.50 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

In a vigorous defense of public life, Senator Joseph Lieberman, one of the most articulate and respected of our politicians, defines the duty, the honor and the privilege of public life in the face of Americans' perennial cynicism about it.
Americans have always been suspicious of government and have misunderstood and mistrusted those in public life. This attitude is even more prevalent as the boundaries that once separated public and private have fallen. Lieberman argues that some of the public's mistrust is based on a misconception of what public life is and why we need it. He then describes that life as he has lived it over the last three decades -- with all its purpose, privileges, pressures and pleasures.
Drawing widely from his own experience as a politician and his pride in public service, Lieberman makes a passionate, hopeful argument for the value of public life -- its place and necessity in our democracy and our need for more Americans to embrace it if we are to sustain our self-government.
Lieberman asks fundamental questions about what standards of behavior should be expected of politicians in the sharply partisan, big-money, search-and-destroy atmosphere of politics today. Who should set these standards? Is there room for a public figure to "be human," to "make mistakes"? Is there a line beyond which the personal behavior of a public official is nobody's business? Do citizens have an obligation to understand and determine the responsibilities of public life?
on

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionPolitics & GovernmentPolitical Structure & ProcessesPolitical Leaders & LeadershipCentral GovernmentHistoryRegional & National HistoryHistory of the AmericasPolitical Structures & Democracy

More in Central Government

Rewriting History - Dick Morris

eBOOK

Rewriting History

eBook

$13.99

Thomas Jefferson : Author of America - Christopher Hitchens

eBOOK

Thomas Jefferson

Author of America

eBook

RRP $33.99

$27.99

18%
OFF
Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib - Seymour M. Hersh

eBOOK

Chain of Command

The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.99

19%
OFF
Nixon and Kissinger : Partners in Power - Robert Dallek

eBOOK

Nixon and Kissinger

Partners in Power

eBook

RRP $28.99

$23.99

17%
OFF

This product is categorised by