Gratitude: Reflections on What We Owe to Our Country - Hardcover

William F. Buckley Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394576748 ISBN 13: 9780394576749

Publisher: Random House, 1990

Synopsis

The conservative columnist renews his call for a year of voluntary national service for young people eighteen and over, in areas such as health, day care, and the environment, to strengthen their feeling and appreciation for their nation

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There is a growing debate in the United States as to whether the young should be encouraged or even compelled to give a year of "national service" to help the nation cope with its social problems, e.g., health care and illiteracy. While not advocating compulsory service, Buckley does argue that the young should be encouraged, through various rewards and sanctions, to give a year of service out of gratitude for civil liberties inherited and protected. While the idea seems to have merit on the surface, criticisms (cited by Buckley) that it smacks of totalitarianism, as well as the question of how this would be paid for on top of the national debt and the savings & loan crisis make the idea less attractive. An intriguing essay; recommended for academic and public libraries. For more on this topic, see Charles C. Moskos's A Call to Civic Service (Free Pr., 1988) and Richard Danzig and Peter Szanton's National Service (Lexington, 1986). Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/90--Jeffrey R. Herold, Bucyrus P.L., Ohio
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About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0394576748
• ISBN 13: 9780394576749
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 169