In our public life, America is struggling to live up to its national ideals.
The Case for Civility: And Why America's Future Depends On It is a proposal for restoring civility around the world. Influential Christian and speaker Os Guinness makes a passionate plea to put an end to the polarization of American politics and culture that—rather than creating a public space for real debate—threatens to reverse the very principles our founders set into motion that have long preserved liberty,diversity, and unity in this county.
America, with it's rich history and robust cultural resources, is the very best place to begin to search for answers on fostering civility, argues Guinness—even in the wake of near constant “stupidity and destructiveness of the culture warring over religion and public life—on both sides.”
Rich with historical anecdotes that unlock the genius of the American experiment, Guinness also takes on the contemporary threat of both the religious right and the secular left to construct a new way forward in the midst of the buildup to the 2008 presidential elections.
