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NOVAK PROPOSES A HYPOTHESIS THAT CAPITALISM-AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM BASED UPON MARKETS & INCENTIVES-HAS, LIKE DEMOCRACY, EVANGELICAL ROOTS, BREATHING VITAL AIR FROM A MORAL-CULTURAL SYSTEM BASED ON POWERFUL IDEAS ABOUT THE COMMUNITARIAN INDIVIDUAL, THE SOCIAL NATURE OF HUMAN LIFE, EMERGENT PROBABILITY AND SIN.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface to the Paperback Edition (1973) -- Preface (1971) -- Acknowledgements -- The Price of Being Americanized -- INTRODUCTION: ETHNIC ASSERTION IN THE SEVENTIES -- 1. The Seventies: Decade of the Ethnics -- PART I: YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN -- 2. Confessions of a White Ethnic -- 3. The Nordic Jungle: Inferiority in America -- 4. Spiro T. Anagnostopoulos: Remembrance of Humiliations Past -- PART II: THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE PEOPLE -- 5. The Intellectuals of the Northeast -- 6. The Concept of the Avant-Garde -- 7. Jewish and Catholic -- 8. Authentic? Authoritarian? -- PART III: THE NEW ETHNIC POLITICS -- 9. Political Dreams for Every Finger of My Hand -- 10. The Ethnic Democratic Party -- PART IV: ETHNICITY IN THE SEVENTIES AND BEYOND -- 11. The New Ethnicity -- 12. Pluralism: A Humanistic Perspective -- 13. Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity -- 14. How American Are You If Your Grandparents Came From Slovakia in 1888? -- 15. One Species, Many Cultures -- 16. The Social World of Individuals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

THE ARTICLE PRESENTS THE OPENING AND SUBSEQUENT STATEMENT BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL NOVAK AND RICHARD SCHIFTER THEIR SPEECHES COVER THE FOLLOWING TOPICS RELEVANT TO HUMAN RIGHTS: ANTI-SEMITISM, TERRORISM, APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA, SELF DETERMINATION, RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS, EL SALVADOR, AND MISSING AND DISAPPEARED PERSONS.

"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."--Provided by publisher.

What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage—a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliché. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death. For its proponents, social justice is a catchall term that can be used to justify any progressive-sounding government program. It endures because it venerates its champions and brands its opponents as supporters of social injustice, and thus as enemies of humankind. As an ideological marker, social justice always works best when it is not too sharply defined. In Social Justice Isn't What You T

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Houses Divided -- 1 The Pruitt-Igoe Community -- 2 Thomas Coolidge -- 3 The Potentialities of People -- 4 The Madison Family -- 5 Daily Life in Pruitt-Igoe -- 6 The Patterson Family -- 7 Marital Roles and Marital Disruption -- 8 Clara Johnson and Her Family -- 9 Parents and Their Children -- 10 Alice Walker Becomes a Woman -- 11 The Peer Group and Adolescent Socialization -- 12 The Salad Days of John Martin -- 13 Negro Lower-Class Identity and Culture -- 14 Towards Equality -- Bibliography -- Index