-
In total there are 2 users online :: 0 registered, 0 hidden and 2 guests (based on users active over the past 60 minutes)
Most users ever online was 1000 on Sun Jun 30, 2024 12:23 am
Please "Check In" here to the American Character discussion!
- Taylor
-
- Awesome
- Posts: 966
- Joined: Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:39 pm
- 14
- Location: Florida
- Has thanked: 425 times
- Been thanked: 595 times
Re: Please "Check In" here to the American Character discussion!
My apologies for being late to the dance but just got an ebook version today. I have been following the discussion and will be joining in.
- Robert Tulip
-
- BookTalk.org Hall of Fame
- Posts: 6502
- Joined: Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:16 pm
- 18
- Location: Canberra
- Has thanked: 2730 times
- Been thanked: 2666 times
- Contact:
Re: Please "Check In" here to the American Character discussion!
This is a really powerful book. Especially on the corruption of the current Republican Party.
- Taylor
-
- Awesome
- Posts: 966
- Joined: Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:39 pm
- 14
- Location: Florida
- Has thanked: 425 times
- Been thanked: 595 times
Re: Please "Check In" here to the American Character discussion!
You can say that again!Robert Tulip wrote:This is a really powerful book. Especially on the corruption of the current Republican Party.
I've read through to chapter six just in the past twelve hours.
- Chris OConnor
-
- BookTalk.org Hall of Fame
- Posts: 17034
- Joined: Sun May 05, 2002 2:43 pm
- 22
- Location: Florida
- Has thanked: 3521 times
- Been thanked: 1313 times
- Gender:
- Contact:
Re: Please "Check In" here to the American Character discussion!
Robert, I'm impressed that you're an Australian and you know more about the US political system than most Americans.
- Robert Tulip
-
- BookTalk.org Hall of Fame
- Posts: 6502
- Joined: Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:16 pm
- 18
- Location: Canberra
- Has thanked: 2730 times
- Been thanked: 2666 times
- Contact:
Re: Please "Check In" here to the American Character discussion!
An old analysis of imperial politics observes that the periphery knows about the core but the core ignores the periphery. Australia is at the periphery of the American Empire.Chris OConnor wrote:Robert, I'm impressed that you're an Australian and you know more about the US political system than most Americans.
I've had a lot of contact with the US. My dad did his PhD at the University of Chicago, 1958-61, while my mum did an MA at Northwestern. Then dad worked for a year at Yale, 1976-77, bringing the family along. My two brothers both studied and worked in the US, Peter at UPenn and the Fed and Bill doing a chemistry post doc in Oregon.
My interests in the apocalyptic tendencies in world politics have always recognised US leadership, although this is a topic that excites less analysis than perhaps it should.
This book, American Character, attracted my interest because I see this tragic dilemma over liberty and the common good as the central gulf in world politics, stopping people from acquiring a dispassionate ability to discuss key major issues in a practical way. The way this divide between individualism and collective needs polarises American society generates the primary acute moral questions facing our planet.