The Politics of Moral CapitalHe argues that a moral crisis has afflicted the nation at its mythical heart and has been refracted through and enacted within its central institutions, eroding the moral capital of government and people and undermining the nation's morale."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Contents
Acknowledgments page | 1 |
Moral capital and politics | 10 |
Moral capital and leadership | 27 |
the longpurposed man | 50 |
the man of storms | 83 |
the moral phenomenon | 118 |
her fathers daughter | 147 |
Kennedy and American virtue | 180 |
Crisis | 200 |
Aftermath | 218 |
Denouement | 235 |
Epilogue | 255 |
| 261 | |
| 270 | |
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| Title | The Politics of Moral Capital Contemporary Political Theory The Politics of Moral Capital, John Kane |
| Authors | John Kane, Professor of Politics and Public Policy John Kane |
| Editors | I. Shapiro, Russell Hardin |
| Contributors | Stephen Holmes, Jeffrey Isaac, Elizabeth Kiss, Susan Okin, Phillip Pettit, Phillipe Van Parijs |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0521663571, 9780521663571 |
| Length | 277 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Political Political Science / History & Theory |
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