In Choosing Presidents, Novak uses the election of an American president as a means to dissect the symbols of our national life and politics, exposing many as distorted perceptions of American realities. This work is a guide to the complexities of electoral politics and a lasting contribution to our understanding of the presidency. The author is Michael Novak.
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"a superbly useful book. It kept me up until three this morning and was worth all the mild misery of the day that has followed."
--Daniel P. Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to India
--Daniel P. Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to India
"Brilliant and exasperatingprofound in its view of American symbols and American character, penetrating in its thesis of the president's symbolic priestly role. It should be read."
--Anthony Lewis, The New York Times
"To think freshly about the Presidency, to break the easy, well-worn patterns of Liberal and Conservative thinking, to understand the mind of the American people--this is no mean achievement, but Novak, has done it in this book."
--Max Lerner, The New York Post
"Novak sees politicians--from McGovern to Wallace--as real people, and understands the perplexity of the world in which they operate. He puts his finger on their central dilemma: the conflicts between personal morality and the sometimes messy realities of politics. He sheds light on this gray area in a most helpful way."
--John D. Rockefeller IV, President, West Virginia Wesleyan College
"An intelligent and generous political moralitypicks up Reinhold Niebuhr's attack on liberal moralismputs America's civil religion in a new perspective"
--David Tracy, University of Chicago, The Divinity School
"Novak's genius lies in exciting our imaginations to pursue the subtle paths behind events an advance beyond Niebuhr in relating morality to politics, especially in the section on dirty hands incisive timely the most astute writing of Mr. Novak's to date."
--David Burrell, Notre Dame University
"A rich, sensitive and extremely rewarding essay and one of the most stimulating treatments of the presidency that I have read in several years."
--Thomas E. Cronin, Editor, The Presidency Reappraised
About the Author
Michael Novak is George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He has twice been ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission and is member of the National Endowment for Democracy Board. He is the author of over two doen books and numerous scholarly articles, which have appeared in First Things, The Weekly Standard, and National Review Online.
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