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Democracy's Edge reveals how this new approach to solving our problems is indeed working in local government, education, the workplace, human services, and the media. Exploding the popular myths about public life, power, and self-interest that stop individuals from discovering the rewards of public involvement, Lappé offers real lessons learned from ordinary Americans on how to reinvigorate American political life. More than a book, this is an alarm sounding across the American landscape, a rallying cry, an urgent call that now is the time to act or risk losing our Democracy forever.
Going past the tired polemics—left and right, liberal and conservative, progressive and reactionary—Democracy's Edge shows us how to bring our country alive again.
"Young academics like myself see through politics, abhor the news, and withdraw from participation -- trying rather hopelessly to convince yourself that life has nothing to do with politics. Democracy’s Edge is an amazing tool for correcting this problem. Through its specific examples of progress in Democratic Living, it forces the thinker finally to get up, perhaps with tears in his eyes, and to act.
-- Jonathan Cheresnick, student, philosophy, Allegheny College
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