The Secret Lives of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life - Hardcover

Geoghegan, Thomas

 
9780679421535: The Secret Lives of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 067942153X ISBN 13: 9780679421535
Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1998

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Combining memoir and observation, the author explores the shifting role of the federal government in Americans' pursuit of the good life

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Thomas Geoghegan's essays and commentary have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and Slate, among other publications.  His previous book, Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat On Its Back, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received a special citation from the PEN/Martha Award judges. Geoghegan lives in Chicago, where he is a practicing attorney.

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me when the cynicism about our government's value is a topic of heated discussion, Thomas Geoghegan vividly redefines the terms of the debate. Combining memoir and trenchant observation, he uses his own life to explore what it means to be a "national" civil servant and a "local" citizen. <br>He begins with the sense that a child has of Washington, D.C.--the marble presence of a big central government created by the New Deal. It was in this city that Geoghegan and many others of his generation expected to live their lives as civil servants and lawyers: the national elite, serving the common good, pursuing the promise of American life.<br>The decline of the "national idea," the rise of the States, and the growing weakness of the central government pushed Geoghegan to the local level in Chicago. There, as a lawyer, he fought evils of a new kind: tuberculosis among the homeless, the spread of child labor, the use of jails to house the poor--evils t

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Verlag
Pantheon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
067942153X
ISBN 13 
9780679421535
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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