The One and the Many

America's Struggle for the Common Good

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by Martin E. Marty

Harvard University Press

Due/Published August 1998, 244 pages, paper

ISBN 067463828x

A world-renowned authority on religion and ethics in America, Martin Marty gives a judicious account of how our body politic has been torn between the imperative of one one nation undivided and the separate urgings of distinct identitiesracial, ethnic, religious, gendered, ideological, economicclaiming grievances. Issuing an urgent call for repair, Marty envisions steps we might take to cary America past this new turbulence.