“Character is a fine autumnal word, with echoes of Protestant gentility and sherry in the afternoon.” Perhaps surprisingly, those are the words of someone who worked in political science, a discipline whose practitioners, along with many in the social sciences, tend to write in flat, desiccated prose. But Wilson Carey McWilliams—whose sudden death in 2005 shocked his fami (...)
March 23, 2012
Books
The Decline of Fraternity
Redeeming Democracy in AmericaWilson Carey McWilliamsUniversity of Kansas Press, $34.95, 336 pp.
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