Healing America: Values and Vision for the 21st Century - Hardcover

Simon, Paul

9781570755057: Healing America: Values and Vision for the 21st Century

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570755051 ISBN 13: 9781570755057

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2003

Paul Simon, former U.S. Senator from Illinois, widens a national debate. September 11th, 2001 changed everything: we are beginning to realize what happens to one of us happens to all of us. And we are beginning to understand that what happens to others in foreign lands also happens to us. Mr. Simon calls for a new way of thinking, and challenges us to new priorities, a renewing of the best American values.
Simon expands on the familiar meaning of values such as family, religion, equality, optimism, and initiative. He also explores equally important but less talked about values: restraint, humility, participation, compassion, integrity, and much more. Healing America reminds us of what is best in us, and encourages us to extend our highest vision and values by living them here and now.

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About the Author:

Paul Simon serves as founding director of the Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Prior to leaving the U.S. Senate and joining the SIUC faculity in 1997, Simon ranked as the senior senator from Illinois. He holds forty-seven honorary degrees and has written nineteen books, including Freedom's Champion: Elijah Lovejoy; The Tongue-Tied American; and Our Culture of Pandering.

From Booklist:

When Simon looks on America from the perspective of a former U.S. senator, he sees a country with high ideals--and with wounds that remain unhealed since September 11, 2001. Evidence of the wounds is that as a nation we have developed "a selective view of current events and history which glorifies us and vilifies others." We are becoming less responsible, tolerant, and compassionate. Simon sees this as "a great disservice to truth, to future generations and to ourselves." His prescription? Return to core American values and reinvest in the process of aligning personal, social, and political realities with the vision the founders outlined in the Constitution. He doesn't contend that the U.S. has a monopoly on humility, compassion, courage, and equality, but he draws on extensive knowledge of history to tell the stories of Americans who personified those ideals. Simon's journalistic background shows in the clear, coherent style he maintains while addressing issues with an unblinking eye and a compassionate heart. Donna Chavez
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