Allen, Danielle
Rhetoric, a Good Thing
2004
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In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to
photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan, Allen
readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen
These tools of political friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to others and
Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust, according to Allen.