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Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (Polemics)

By Frances Fox Piven

Book information

Publisher
Inc., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2006
ISBN
0742515354, 9780742515352
Open Library ID
OL7924448M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1463785 bytes)
Pages
200\205
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Challenging Authority argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in American history, Frances Fox Piven shows that it is precisely at those seismic moments when people act outside of self-restricting political norms that they become empowered to their full democratic potential.

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