Counting our blessings / Daniel Patrick Moynihan (c1980)

Público ISBD Ningún comentario para este registro. Título : Counting our blessings : Reflections on the Future of America Tipo de documento: texto impreso Autores: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Autor Editorial: Canadá : Atlantic Monthly Fecha de publicación: c1980 Número de páginas: 348 p ISBN/ISSN/DL: 978-0-316-58702-0 Clasificación: Política Etiquetas: Estados Unidos-Gobierno  Estados Unidos-Politica Clasificación: 32(73)=111 Política de EEUU en inglés Resumen: "We are a blessed people, but not invinci bly elect. We must make our future as we did our past." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan As the only person in American history to serve in the cabinet or subcabinet of four consecutive Presidents, as former Ambassador to India and to the United Nations, as former Professor of Govern-ment at Harvard University, and now as United States Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan has acquired growing authority as a writer, whilst re-taining the brio, wit, and passionate con-viction that marked his work from the first. In Counting Our Blessings, Senator Moynihan examines crucial issues facing the United States today in foreign policy, in the judicial system, in domestic and especially regional economic policy, and in strategic arms limitation. In essays dealing with American values in foreign affairs, Moynihan assesses the Wilsonian concept of patriotism and world order. He calls for a vigorous, un-apologetic role in the world forum with special stress, and a special perspective, on human rights. With respect to government and law, Moynihan looks to heretofore unex-amined sources of dysfunction in modern government. In his view, for example, "the iron law of emulation" the law that organizations in conflict become like one another shaped events in Wash-ington from at least the time Theodore Roosevelt built the west wing of the Wate House. Moynihan is the first public figure of our time to argue that the Supreme Court has simply been wrong a common enough occurrence over two centuries in its decisions forbidding or restricting public aid to nonpublic schools. He shows that the framers of the First Amendment could have had no such intentions in that they very much wished to encourage edu-cation, and nonpublic schools were the only kind that existed at the time. The last and perhaps most far-reaching essay looks at the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty from the perspective of a political scientist and of a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate conversant with Soviet doctrine. His view that the "SALT Process" may have had the result of accelerating the arms race, and his plea for true arms reductions have al-ready profoundly influenced the SALT debate. Senator Moynihan is the author or co-author of ten previous books, the most recent being A Dangerous Place. Link: ./index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=42393 Counting our blessings : Reflections on the Future of America [texto impreso] / Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Autor . - Canadá : Atlantic Monthly, c1980 . - 348 p. ISBN : 978-0-316-58702-0 Clasificación: Política Etiquetas: Estados Unidos-Gobierno  Estados Unidos-Politica Clasificación: 32(73)=111 Política de EEUU en inglés Resumen: "We are a blessed people, but not invinci bly elect. We must make our future as we did our past." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan As the only person in American history to serve in the cabinet or subcabinet of four consecutive Presidents, as former Ambassador to India and to the United Nations, as former Professor of Govern-ment at Harvard University, and now as United States Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan has acquired growing authority as a writer, whilst re-taining the brio, wit, and passionate con-viction that marked his work from the first. In Counting Our Blessings, Senator Moynihan examines crucial issues facing the United States today in foreign policy, in the judicial system, in domestic and especially regional economic policy, and in strategic arms limitation. In essays dealing with American values in foreign affairs, Moynihan assesses the Wilsonian concept of patriotism and world order. He calls for a vigorous, un-apologetic role in the world forum with special stress, and a special perspective, on human rights. With respect to government and law, Moynihan looks to heretofore unex-amined sources of dysfunction in modern government. In his view, for example, "the iron law of emulation" the law that organizations in conflict become like one another shaped events in Wash-ington from at least the time Theodore Roosevelt built the west wing of the Wate House. Moynihan is the first public figure of our time to argue that the Supreme Court has simply been wrong a common enough occurrence over two centuries in its decisions forbidding or restricting public aid to nonpublic schools. He shows that the framers of the First Amendment could have had no such intentions in that they very much wished to encourage edu-cation, and nonpublic schools were the only kind that existed at the time. The last and perhaps most far-reaching essay looks at the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty from the perspective of a political scientist and of a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate conversant with Soviet doctrine. His view that the "SALT Process" may have had the result of accelerating the arms race, and his plea for true arms reductions have al-ready profoundly influenced the SALT debate. Senator Moynihan is the author or co-author of ten previous books, the most recent being A Dangerous Place. Link: ./index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=42393

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