One America?: Political Leadership, National Identity, and the Dilemmas of Diversity

Contributors from both left & right of center discuss the role of national leaders at a time when a fragmented national identity has become a real possibility.

Jack Citrin is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley Richard D. Kahlenberg is a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation where he writes about education, equal opportunity, and civil rights Richard J. Payne is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Illinois State University Department of Political Science Noah M. J. Pickus is Assistant Professor in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science at Duke University Stanley A. Renshon is Professor of Political Science at The City University of New York and a certified psychoanalyst Russell L. Riley is Assistant Professor and Research Fellow with the White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia John David Skrentny is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego Jim Sleeper, a writer on American racial politics and civic culture His reportage has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Washington Monthly, and newspapers and other publications, and he is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" Abigail Thernstrom a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education Stephan Thernstrom is the Winthrop Professor of History at Harvard University