Ned O'Gorman is professor of communication at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of The Iconoclastic Imagination, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
In Politics for Everybody, O'Gorman presents a concise and engaging argument for why political participation, leadership, and judgment are honorable and essential practices for a free society. His prose is clear and accessible, and at times truly eloquent. More than just a superb introduction to Arendt, this book could directly improve civic life in the United States. --Robert Hariman, Northwestern University Politics for Everybody is a brave and successful attempt to introduce readers to Arendt's ideas of politics in the face of the distorted examples in contemporary political thinking and acting. O'Gorman's assumes--rightly, I think--that people are ready to hear a new case made for politics and the political, terms which here refer to an activity and an attitude, an ethic and an ethos. All those interested in contemporary politics will profit from meditating on O'Gorman's rethinking of what politics should be about. --Richard H. King, University of Nottingham