32392. Beem, Christopher. The necessity of politics : reclaiming American public life. With a foreword by Jean Bethke Elshtain. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1999, xiv, 311pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $7 In the series: Morality and society, edited by Alan Wolfe. Beem was at the time director of the Democracy and Community Program at the Johnson Foundation. Theoretical sections concern Tocqueville and Hegel on civil society, as well as the Polish solidarity movement. The book was well-reviewed by Tracy Strong, but with a good dose of skepticism concerning the proposed remedy of "political associations.". ISBN 0226041441
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