Spirit of Community - by Amitai Etzioni (Paperback)

About the Book

A regular guest on "The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour" and NPR, Etzioni explores the rapidly growing grass-roots political movement that calls for a new balance between individual rights and social responsibilty. "Shows us . . . how a philosophy based on shared values and mutual understanding can restore our nation's promise and moral leadership".--Sen. Bill Bradley.

Book Synopsis

In The Spirit of Community/i>, Amitai Etzioni explains why the critical institutious of our society are in crisis and show what we can do to restore them.

Dr. Etzioni shares his beliefs that many of our problems can be trace to the broad range of individual rights many Americans feels they deserve.

About the Author

Amitai Etzioni a sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism. He founded the Communitarian Network, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to supporting the moral, social, and political foundations of society. He was called the "guru" of the communitarian movement in the early 1990s, and he established the Communitarian Network to disseminate the movement's ideas.