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"In this book John Ehrenberg argues that Donald Trump, as both candidate and president, represents a qualitatively new stage in the evolution of the Republican Party's willingness to exploit American racial tensions. Works on Trump's use of race have tended to be fragmentary or subsidiary to a larger purpose. Ehrenberg concentrates his investigation on Trump's weaponized use of race, contextualized through historical and theoretical details, demonstrating that while Trump draws on previous Republican strategies, he stands apart through his explicit intention to convert the Republican Party into a political instrument of a threatened racial order. The book traces the GOP's approach to racial matters from Goldwater's "constitutional" objection to federal activity in the South to George W. Bush's overtures to black citizens. Ehrenberg examines the role of racial animus in prying loose a significant portion of the Democratic electoral coalition and making possible Trump's overt flirtation with white nationalism. He concludes that the Republican Party will find it difficult to jettison its fifty-year history of embracing and amplifying white racial animus and resentment. White Nationalism and the Republican Party will be of interest to academics and students of American Politics, Voting Behavior, American Party Politics, Race and American Politics, Twentieth Century American History, Political Leadership, Politics of Inequality, Race and Public Policy"--

4. Civil Society and the Rise of "Economic Man"Rights, Law, and Protected Spheres; The Moral Foundations of Civil Society; The Emergence of Bourgeois Civil Society; 5. Civil Society and the State; Civil Society and the Ethical Commonwealth; The "Giant Broom"; The "System of Needs"; The Politics of Social Revolution; 6. Civil Society and Intermediate Organizations; The Aristocratic Republic; Civil Society and Community; The Customs of Civil Society; American Lessons; Part III. Civil Society in Contemporary Life; 7. Civil Society and the Crisis of Communism; Antistatism and Totalitarianism.

A comprehensive discussion and analysis of two and a half millennia of Western political theoryIn the absence of noble public goals, admired leaders, and compelling issues, many warn of a dangerous erosion of civil society, which includes families, religious organizations, and all other NGOs. Are they right? What are the roots and implications of their insistent alarm? How can public life be enriched in a period marked by fraying communities, widespread apathy, and unprecedented levels of contempt for politics? How should we be thinking about civil society? In Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea, John Ehrenberg analyzes both the usefulness and the limitations of civil society and maps the political and theoretical evolution of the concept and its employment in academic and public discourse. From Aristotle and the Enlightenment philosophers to Black Lives Matter and the Occupy movement, Ehrenberg provides an indispensable analysis of the possibilities of what this increasingly important idea can, and cannot, offer to contemporary political affairs. In this new, second edition Ehrenberg brings the historical overview up to present day, specifically considering how major events such as 9/11, the global financial crisis, economic inequality, and rapidly advancing technologies alter and shape our relationship to contemporary civil society. Civic engagement, political participation, and volunteerism in contemporary life has faded, he argues, and in order to bring civil society--and all its virtues--back to the fore, we need to counter the suffocating inequality that has taken hold in recent years. Thorough and accessible, Civil Society gives a sweeping overview of a foundational part of political life.

This book is designed to introduce American readers to the terms of the discussion of a two-state solution. It is the first to bring together Jewish and Palestinian scholars, as well as non-Israeli citizen Palestinian and American Jews, to bear on a very topical subject with international ramifications.