Find Out What Causes Demonization and What We Can Do About It

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"After reading and hearing so many epitaphs to political discourse in a polarized nation in the wake of 9/11, I take heart from Tom De Luca's and John Buell's realistic but hopeful argument for one last mighty effort to pull democracy back from the brink." -- Bill Moyers

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"A Very Important Book
--and A Great Read"

Hear WFUV's Nora Flaherty's recent interview with De Luca about Liars! Go to: http://www.wfuv.org/

(a) "Fordham archives"; (b) choose a show,"Fordham Conversations";

c) choose February 11.

***Long-time activists, writers, scholars, and teachers, Tom De Luca and John Buell analyze the causes of demonization in American politics.

***They show why it is such a danger to American democracy.

***They present a plan to tame it.

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*Co-Author John Buell*

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"As President Bush labels opponents of his Iraq policy as unpatriotic simply because they think he's wrong, this book becomes even more timely and important."

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To contact the authors:

jbuell@acadia.net or

tdeluca@fordham.edu

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"Masterful! Fascinating! Unsettling! . . .This rousing book should be required reading."

--James Morone, author of Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History

"compelling. . . should be on the short list for. . .the next battle in our culture wars."
--Stanley Greenberg, former Clinton pollster, author of The Two Americas

"lively and illuminating. . .[they] chart the politics of demonization in America."

--William Connolly, author of Pluralism, Krieger-Eisenhower Chair, Johns Hopkins University.

"truly fair and balanced. . .utterly refusing to demonize the demonizers"
--Jane Bennett, editor of The Politics of Moralizing and Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University.

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Find out more about:

Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!

Book Description, click here

Table of Contents, click here

Introduction, "Holy Wars by Other Means," click here

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Product Details:

228 pages

price: $20

ISBN: 0814719759

New York University Press, 2005

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