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Public Universities and the Public Sphere argues that two crises facing America - a crisis of public discourse and a crisis of public higher education - are closely connected. Part of the solution, Smith argues in this timely work, to both crises lies in understanding and building on the connection.

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The Core Public Sphere: What It Is and Why It Needs Help Why is Public Higher Education in Trouble? Building the Core Public Sphere The Public Sphere and the Construction of the Modern American University Public Universities and the Democratization of the Core Public Sphere Occlusion and Its Consequences What Should Be Done?

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WOODRUFF D. SMITH Professor of History and formerly Dean of the Liberal Arts Faculty at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.

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