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Over the past 250 years, the United States has been shaped by an evolving
and often contested civic landscape, marked by debate, protest, elections,
and acts of public service and neighborliness. While this history includes
profound injustices and divisions, it also reflects an ongoing engagement
with the ideals of democracy, an aspiration that continues to take form
through everyday participation in public life.
In this poignant collection of photographs, William Meyers offers a
sweeping, twenty-five year visual record of New York City as a microcosm of
America, capturing the everyday acts of civic engagement, public service, and
neighborly support that sustain the democratic fabric of the nation.
Structured around seven thematic chapters—Elections, Governance,
Demonstrations, Press, Talk, Social Capital, and Civic Markers—Civics
captures the full spectrum of engagement, from formal political processes and
public service to volunteer work, protests, charitable acts, and neighborhood
interactions, revealing the quiet, everyday labor that keeps democracy
alive.
A gorgeous keepsake volume with an afterword by the celebrated journalist
Nicole Gelinas, Civics is a visually striking reminder of the ordinary acts
that sustain democratic life in moments of heightened political and social
tensions.
