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‘Our Divided Political Heart’ by E.J. Dionne

By Michael Washburn

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    June 17, 2012

In “Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent,” political commentator E.J. Dionne urges us to accept the philosophical foundations of our political differences. Dionne argues that American greatness developed from longstanding, dynamic tensions between liberalism and conservatism, values that “animate the consciousness and conscience of nearly all Americans.”

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