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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Amidst Values and Interests … Finding a Public Voice -- The Public and Public Policy -- Hasty Judgments and an Emerging Voice -- II. Searching for Balance … America's Role in the World -- The Illusory Flight of Hawk and Dove -- Seeing Ourselves … and Our Responsibilities -- Values, Interests … and the "Rights" of Others -- Commonalities of Concern … in a New Century -- The Trace of a Collective Will -- III. Shared Experience and Collective Understanding … the Outcomes of Public Deliberation -- The Modes of Public Politics -- Framing a Public Purpose … the Immigration "Problem" -- Fixing a Direction … the Energy "Problem" -- A Deliberative Political Culture -- IV. Facing the Odds … When Knowing What We Like is not Enough -- The Citizens' Challenge-and the Government's? -- Disagreement, Compromise … or Understanding -- The Political Import of Public Thought -- V. Deliberative Communities … the Persistence of Popular Will -- Deliberative Learning, Common Trust, and Individual Need -- Public Education … the Problems We Live With -- A Community's Problem … Leaving People Behind -- The Community, Practicing Politics -- VI. Reclaiming the Public Role -- Voice and Judgment -- Reflection … and Experience -- Coming to Knowing -- Acknowledgements … and a Note on the Sources -- Bibliography -- About the Author.