Public Insight Forum: Is Our Democracy Unraveling? A Talk With Richard Harwood - November 09, 2005
The Citizens League and Minnesota Public Radio present Is Our Democracy Unraveling? A Talk with Richard Harwood. The media and politicians portray the U.S. as a nation divided — into red and blue, religious and secular, urban and rural. But this conventional wisdom, which drives today's politics and public life, is dead wrong, according to Richard Harwood. Harwood argues in his new book, Hope Unraveled: The People's Retreat and Our Way Back that extreme views reign because most citizens have retreated from public life after years of frustration... (register or continue reading)