Books by Vernon Van Dyke

?Van Dyke challenges prevailing Western individualism by favoring reasonable group rights based on language, religion, and race. He presents a balanced selection of justifiable and discriminatory, successful and failed cases of group differentiation.... Van Dyke's comparative and theoretical analysis offers no empirical guidance about whether increased group rights would exacerbate or ameliorate national divisions. Nevertheless, his scholarly, temperate rationale deserves consideration from proponents of both individual rights and national unity. Both public and academic libraries, community college students and up.?-Choice

Offers an examination and texturing of current ideologies on the American political landscape. This title brings students to an understanding of the ideological impulses that shape our politics and help determine the country's current direction.