Does America have a sense of community and a vital civic culture? Are disparate groups capable of uniting as a single people who can call themselves Americans? Do Americans help each other for the common good? Daniel J. Monti, Jr. addresses these questions in this wide-ranging volume spanning three hundred years of American urban life. He reconciles liberal and conservative viewpoints and responds unequivocally, that 'yes', Americans are indeed a community of believers and that a viable and vital civic culture exists in the United States despite notions of difference and apathy. Civic life in the US has been based on a set of rules predicated on prosperity and order as guiding principles to achieve a balance between private lives and the larger public good. "The American City" brings this notion forward and sheds a positive light on a world that focuses more often on the problems as opposed to the parts that work.

Book Information
ISBN 9781557869180
Author Daniel Monti
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Blackwell Publishers
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 634g