For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity Free

Author: Jason Kaufman
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0195148576

For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity

The Golden Age of Fraternity was a unique time in American history. Download For the Common Good? American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In the forty years between the Civil War and the onset of World War I, more than half of all Americans participated in clubs, fraternities, militias, and mutual benefit societies. Today this period is held up as a model for how we might revitalize contemporary civil society. But was America's associational culture really as communal as has been assumed? What if these much-admired voluntary organizations served parochial concerns rather than the common good?
Jason Kaufman sets out to dispel many of the myths about the supposed civic-mindedness of "joining" while bringing to light the hidden lessons of associationalism's history. Relying on deep archival research in city directories, Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.