
Being America
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Purdy has absorbed insights from people around the world: Westernized Egyptians who consider Osama bin Laden a hero, an urbane Indian who espouses gay rights and the most thuggish kind of Hindu nationalism, Cambodian sweat-shop workers, and others. Out of these conversations—and his inspired readings of political thinkers from Edmund Burke to James Madison—Purdy breathes new meaning into the American values of democracy, liberty, and free trade. Clear-thinking and far-sighted, Being America encourages America to strive to realize the potential it doesn't always know it has.
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- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE VINTAGE EDITION
- PART I
- CHAPTER 1
- The Weapons of History
- Memory and Hurt
- CHAPTER 2
- Choice and Resentment
- The Empire of Desire
- CHAPTER 3
- The Innocent Nation
- The Visible Empire
- CHAPTER 4
- The Liberal Temper
- Liberal Circumstances
- PART II
- CHAPTER 5
- Diaspora Lives
- Choices of Inheritance
- CHAPTER 6
- Blood Reckonings
- The Necessary Danger
- Ways of Being Who We Are
- CHAPTER 7
- The City of God
- Birds of Prey and Passage
- CHAPTER 8
- PART III
- CHAPTER 9
- Adam Smith's "If "
- Sweatshop Politics
- The Gap Among the Khmer
- CHAPTER 10
- The Wish for Kings
- Middle-Class Nationalism
- The Hunger for Virtue
- The Hollow Center
- The Indonesian Storm
- The Hidden Hand
- CHAPTER 11
- The Brahmin as Entrepreneur
- PART IV
- CHAPTER 12
- The Oratory of Commerce
- Adam Smith's Lace Waistcoat
- The Eternal Argument
- CHAPTER 13
- CHAPTER 14
- PART V
- CHAPTER 15
- The Bargain of Modernity
- CHAPTER 16
- Reason About Unreason: History and the Passions
- Living in History
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC GLOSSARY
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ALSO BY JEDEDIAH PURDY
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
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