Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World - Jedediah Purdy - Books - Random House USA Inc - 9780375727559 - February 10, 2004
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Jedediah Purdy
Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World

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Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things, Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting public intellectuals of his generation. In Being America, Purdy turns his erudition and unique perspective to America?s relationship with a world that both admires and hates it.

Purdy has absorbed insights from people around the world: Westernized Egyptians who consider Osama bin Laden a hero, an urbane Indian who espouses gay rights and the most thuggish kind of Hindu nationalism, Cambodian sweat-shop workers, and others. Out of these conversations?and his inspired readings of political thinkers from Edmund Burke to James Madison?Purdy breathes new meaning into the American values of democracy, liberty, and free trade. Clear-thinking and far-sighted, Being America encourages America to strive to realize the potential it doesn?t always know it has.

368 pages

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Released February 10, 2004
ISBN13 9780375727559
Publishers Random House USA Inc
Pages 368
Dimensions 131 × 204 × 20 mm   ·   267 g
Language English  

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