2nd Edition

Choosing Presidents Symbols of Political Leadership

By Michael Novak Copyright 1992
    386 Pages
    by Routledge

    402 Pages
    by Routledge

    In Choosing Presidents, Novak uses the election of an American president as a means to dissect the symbols of our national life and politics, exposing many as distorted perceptions of American realities. This work is a guide to the complexities of electoral politics and a lasting contribution to our understanding of the presidency.The author is Michael Novak.

    One: Priest, Prophet, King; 1: Symbolic Realism; 2: What Are Symbols?; 3: Who Are We?; 4: Unseen Power; 5: Egalitarian and King; 6: Five Elements of Symbolic Power; 7: Making the Most of Improbable Talents; 8: A Professional's Memo; 9: The Liturgy of Leadership; Two: Moralism and Morality; 10: Being Moral and Being Practical; 11: The Constituency of Conscience; 12: That Word Moral; 13: Vietnam: More Moral Than Thou?; 14: The Rise and Fall of Liberal Moralism; 15: Beyond Niebuhr: Symbolic Realism; Three: The Civil Religions of America; 16: The Nation with the Soul of a Church; 17: The Innocence Lingers On; 18: The Civil Religions; 19: Five Protestant Civil Religions; 20: High-Church America; 21: The Second Great Tradition; Four: Symbols of 1972; 22: Traditional Symbols; 23: New Hampshire Snows; 24: The Wallace Sun; 25: McCarthy in Illinois; 26: Sorting Out in Wisconsin; 27: Together with McGovern at the Garden; 28: The Shooting of Governor Wallace; 29: Eight Major Presidential Symbols; Five: A New and Dark Faith; 30: America as a Business; 31: Three Corruptions; 32: Reforming the Presidency; 33: The Necessity of Dirty Hands; 34: The Dark Night of Faith; 35: The New Dark Civil Religion; Six: Afterword; 36: Carter's Hidden Religious Majority; 37: Rival Visions of Community, 1988; 38: Moiling, Muddling, and Malaise; 39: Miracle in the Desert

    Biography

    Michael Novak