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Harry C. Boyte> is Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy at Augsburg College and author of ten previous books. As a young man he worked as a field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King's organization, in the civil rights movement.
Awakening Democracy through Public Work is a book that crackles with originality, insight, and action. It will awaken readers to new ways of working together as citizens and residents, and to new possibilities for engaging in shared civic life and work. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who cares about education and action for a revived democratic future. --Meira Levinson, Professor of Education, Harvard University, and author of No Citizen Left Behind Awakening Democracy is the book we need in this historical moment to remind us of our democratic vision and call us to the urgent work of mending the tears in our communities and co-creating our future. It is not a book to be read as a Democrat or a Republican, but as a Citizen in the most expansive, constructive, and elevating sense of the word. --Adam Weinberg, President, Denison University Public Achievement is a way of learning and practicing politics that has spread widely, not as a standardized program but as an international network of jazz-like improvisations on similar themes: public work, free spaces, building the commonwealth, relational power, and more. Awakening Democracy through Public Work tells the story of this network and its people and presents their themes in challenging and compelling ways. --Peter Levine, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
