
- 216 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book brings together in one place the liberal and conservative arguments that face the Republican and Democratic parties in the run-up to the 2008 election. In each chapter, David Coates lays out the popular conservative case and then presents a point-by-point liberal response. Each chapter challenges right-wing ways of framing the issue and pulls discussion back into the civilized center of American politics. The sources and evidence sustaining both conservative and liberal arguments are listed in endnotes and developed more fully on an associated blog site. A Liberal Tool Kit helps to redress the conservative bias in the way news and arguments are generally reported. Coates argues that conservative media outlets are currently more powerful and numerous than liberal ones, contending that conservative arguments tend to be presented more clearly than their less simplistic, more nuanced liberal alternatives. In this book, he presents the complexities of the conservative arguments while at the same time clarifying liberal positions in straightforward, everyday language, so leveling the playing field.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. A Call to Arms
- Chapter 2. Clearing the Decks
- Chapter 3. The Wonders of "Trickle-Down Economics"
- Chapter 4. Cutting "Welfare" to Help the Poor
- Chapter 5. Reforming Social Security
- Chapter 6. Bringing Health to the Health Care System
- Chapter 7. Immigration Control in a Land of Immigrants
- Chapter 8. Is God Necessarily Conservative?
- Chapter 9. The Wisdom of the War in Iraq
- Chapter 10. Is Prosperity Safest in Republican Hands?
- Chapter 11. Steps to a Better Future
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index