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Running for Office: The Political Education of Campaigners

balanced against the common good. But on Hanson's showing, each succeeding period altered that expected balance, until, in the post-New Deal period, the idea of democracy was transformed into a democracy of "rightsbearers," a democracy whose politics has come to turn on the right to material entitlements and the satisfaction of consumer wants. There are arresting omissions and commissions in Hanson's account. No mention, for example, is made of Thoreau and only passing reference is given to Lincoln, but there are several pages of attention to the futurist novels of Ursula K. LeGuin, the student movements of the 1960s and seventies, and that era's prophet of new consciousness, Charles Reich. But we may presume that the commissions (along with the omissions) contribute to Hanson's larger purpose: to argue on behalf of an alternative future that would bring to U.S. democracy a politics of moral concern grounded in opportunities for enhanced citizen participation in life-affecting issues and for living lives that are satisfyingly rich in nonmaterialist concerns.