Prof Rhetorica wants to know about textbooks that he can use in his course. He wrote the following:
This class is part of Park's liberal studies sequence (we offer an LS major). I need a textbook that will provide some kind of intellectual foundation and one or more disciplinary perspectives beyond rhetoric and political science. Two titles came readily to mind (because I've used them before): Michael Schudson's The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life and Neil Postman's Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future. Schudson's book would add the discipline of history, specifically looking at how citizenship has evolved in America. Postman's book makes an excellent argument for the cultural, social, and political utility of Enlightenment thinking for the 21st Century. Postman brings history, science (through his critique of technology), and education.
There's good citizens and bad citizens but I figure Donald Sensing may be able to help Andrew R. Cline.
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