A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive Responses to Conservative Arguments by Coates, David

A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive Responses to Conservative Arguments (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780275998660)

Vendor: David Coates
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Format: Hardcover
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A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive Responses to Conservative Arguments by Coates, David

A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive Responses to Conservative Arguments

$100.00
A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive Responses to Conservative Arguments by Coates, David

A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive Responses to Conservative Arguments

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: David Coates
ISBN-10: 0275998665
ISBN-13: 9780275998660
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2007
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.47w x 0.92d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2007 pg. 172
Choice 02/01/2008 pg. 1239
By David Coates
By David Coates
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David Coates is Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University. He was previously Professor and Director of the International Center for Labor Studies at the University of Manchester. He has written extensively on contemporary political economy, the war on terrorism, and the politics of labor. His previous books include Prolonged Labour: The Slow Birth of New Labour Britain (2005), Blair's War (2004) with Joel Krieger, and Models of Capitalism (2000).

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