A divided heart : how to face ourselves and our own role in the divisiveness of today's politics -- Present at the creation : how to make sense of this age of fragmenting narratives and competing truths -- If we can keep it : what it truly means to live like a citizen and to be responsible for a republic -- Alternate realities : what it takes to cross from one ideological bubble to another, and beyond -- Where is America? : how our everyday moral choices can sustain, or subvert, the rule of law -- A great awakening : how the American body politic cycles through sleep, dreams, and wakefulness -- Legitimate doubts : why it's worth asking whether this democracy deserves to survive -- Fear and hoarding : how to resist scarcity thinking and status anxiety in a time of severe inequality -- Gratitude, luck, risk : how to be honest about privilege, and how to spend it on others -- A Thanksgiving recipe : why you can't change someone's mind if you aren't willing to change yours -- A practicing citizen : what American civic religion is, why it matters, and how to practice it -- The citizen artist : how to cultivate civic imagination and perform civic power -- Which dream do you dream? : why we must understand the yearnings of both the insider and the outsider -- Become America : how to root the work of reckoning and repair in the places we call home -- Time travel : how we might choose differently if we could relive the last fifty years in America -- A test of our citizenship : what it should take for anyone, not just an immigrant, to be a citizen -- Are we enough? : why the American idea is in trouble, and why it takes only a few of us to revive it -- Too busy to love : what it means in the end to love one's country, one's neighbor, and one's enemy -- Reading our country : how to decode the myths that shape American identity, and how to write them anew.
Summary, etc.:
"What does it mean to live up to the American idea in today's divided political landscape, and how do we restore a sense of common destiny in our country? In a collection of "civic sermons" delivered at gatherings around the nation, popular advocate for powerful citizenship Eric Liu takes on these thorny questions and challenges us to rehumanize our politics and to rekindle a spirit of live in civic life" --Cover.