A Change Is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America 9780190939557, 0190939559

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A Change Is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America
9780190939557, 0190939559

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Brian F. Harrison

Table of contents :
cover
half title
A Change is Gonna Come
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures and Table
Acknowledgments
Notes on Permissions
1. With All Due Respect: The Importance of Disagreement
2. The Virtue of Uncomfortable Conversations
3. How to Alienate Others
4. The Mechanics of Persuasion and the Impact of Information
5. Don’t Know How I Feel About That
6. People Like Us Have Got to Stick Together
7. Change is Hard but Not Impossible
Notes
Index

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