A01=Donald J. Devine
Author_Donald J. Devine
Category=JPS
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Product details
- ISBN 9780761828228
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 158 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2004
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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American values and institutions are under stress, from terrorist attacks by opposing worldviews abroad to widespread domestic skepticism that American traditions are more valuable than others. In this book, Donald Devine asks whether these values can survive or be defended in a West that questions all traditions. Devine raises questions that are answered as the chapters develop, keeping readers engaged, while preventing quick dismissals of the concerns held by those not inclined to support the book's thesis_that Western vision and American values are worth questioning or defending. All standard solutions are considered and are brought together in an investigation of Western values that has a traditionalist bend, but still leaves the largest questions open for the reader to contemplate_including whether American values will in fact survive.
Donald J. Devine served as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from 1981-1985. He is President of the Donald Devine Company, which provides policy and management consultation to government, nonprofit, and political clients; Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of American Values, Bellevue University, Nebraska; Adjunct Scholar for the Heritage Foundation; and Columnist for The Washington Times. Dr. Devine is also a former Associate Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.
