Table of Contents |
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgments | |
1 | United We Serve? The Promise of National Service / E. J. Dionne, Jr., Kayla Meltzer Drogosz | 1 |
2 | Bowling Together / Robert D. Putnam | 13 |
3 | Will September 11 Revitalize Civic Democracy? / Theda Skocpol | 20 |
4 | Patriotism-Lite Meets and Citizen-Soldier / Charles Moskos | 33 |
5 | The Politics of Service / Harris Wofford | 45 |
6 | Service and the Bush Administration's Civic Agenda / John M. Bridgeland, Stephen Goldsmith, Leslie Lenkowsky | 52 |
7 | Patriotism Means Reaching beyond Our Self-Interest / John McCain | 60 |
8 | The Duties of Democracy / William J. Clinton | 68 |
9 | Thinking Bigger about Citizenship / Will Marshall, Marc Magee | 72 |
10 | Solving Problems through Service: Labor and National Service / Andrew L. Stern | 84 |
11 | Doing Well and Doing Good: The Business Community and National Service / Jeff Swartz | 87 |
12 | Flying Colors: Americans after September 11 / David Winston | 90 |
13 | A New Greatest Generation? / Peter D. Hart, Mario A. Brossard | 94 |
14 | The Obligations of September 11, 2001: The Case for Universal Service / Robert E. Litan | 101 |
15 | A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Passed: The Case against Universal Service / Bruce Chapman | 108 |
| Comment: The Case for Universal Service - Again: A Reply to Bruce Chapman / Robert E. Litan | 116 |
16 | A Solution in Search of a Problem / Michael Lind | 121 |
17 | In Power, but Not in Peril / Mark Shields | 133 |
18 | Bring Back the Draft / Charles B. Rangel | 136 |
19 | Dodgy Drafters / Caspar W. Weinberger | 138 |
20 | Degraded into a Trade / John Lehman | 141 |
21 | Military Service and the Middle Class: A Letter to My Sons / Stephen Hess | 144 |
22 | The American Military and the Idea of Service / Louis Caldera | 149 |
23 | Empowering Communities: The Gift of the Civil Rights Movement / Charles Cobb, Jr. | 154 |
24 | Is the Era of Recreational Government Bashing Over? / Alice M. Rivlin | 157 |
25 | Service in the Pursuit of Social Justice / Daniel Blumenthal | 160 |
26 | Profits through Principles / Robert D. Haas | 163 |
27 | A New Citizenship for a New Century / Alan Khazei | 166 |
28 | First Vote / Jane Eisner | 169 |
29 | Can Civic Knowledge Motivate the Next Generation? / William Galston | 175 |
| Comment: Learning Service at Ground Zero / Mason Anderson, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz | 182 |
30 | Service and the State: Should We Politicize Social Bonds? / Tod Lindberg | 184 |
31 | Civic Innovation and Public Policy for Democracy / Carmen Sirianni | 191 |
32 | The Volunteering Decision: What Prompts It? What Sustains It? / Paul C. Light | 198 |
33 | Civil Society, Religion, and the Formation of Citizens / Jean Bethke Elshtain | 209 |
34 | The Impact of Religious Involvement on Civic Life / Robert Wuthnow | 222 |
35 | Challenging America's Faithful / Steven Waldman | 238 |
36 | Citizenship without Politics? A Critique of Pure Service / Kayla Meltzer Drogosz | 245 |
37 | Public Work and the Dignity of Politics / Harry C. Boyte | 253 |
38 | How People Learn to Be Civic / Michael Schudson | 263 |
| Notes | 279 |
| Contributors | 303 |
| Index | 317 |