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    Looking for the Future: A Meditation on Political Choice
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    Looking for the Future: A Meditation on Political Choice

    By Leslie Dunbar

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    We Americans approach -- not a crossroads -- but a branching of our political road where several destinations are possible. One requires surrendering power to what has become our de-facto governing or ruling class. Another takes us to an expanded democracy where the gap between the “have much” and the “have little” has been greatly reduced. In between are byways that eventually will trend one way or the other. The choices will be selected, in the way democracies have always selected, their paths, by the ongoing clash of economic interests. This book is a meditation about our nation, its ruling class now made up of what the book calls “warriors” and former President Eisenhower called “the military industrial complex,” and the rich, about our incessant warring around the world, about the fateful political and Constitutional presence of the South, and about our American way of religion and its church. Leslie Dunbar’s Looking for the Future is a memoir only to the extent that the author’s four score and eleven years of experience give insight to the rumblings of discontent and the disparities of power and wealth that undermine our national unity. This is, finally, a meditation on prospects for that unity and fraternity among us.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewSouth Classics
    Release dateMar 1, 2012
    ISBN9781603062022
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    Looking for the Future: A Meditation on Political Choice
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    Leslie Dunbar

    Leslie W. Dunbar, a native of West Virginia, was the director of the Field Foundation and the Southern Regional Council during the turmoil of the 1960s, and has been closely identified with the cause of Southern democracy. The author of several books, most recently, The Shame of Southern Politics, he lives in Washington, D.C.

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