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If you can keep it : the forgotten promise of American liberty / Eric Metaxas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Metaxas, Eric, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Founding Fathers of the United States.
- Liberty--History.
- History.
- Democracy--United States--History.
- Democracy.
- United States--History.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 260 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, [2016]
- Summary:
- Eric Metaxas offers a thrilling review of America's uniqueness, and a sobering reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless people truly understand what their founding fathers meant for them to be. The book includes a stirring call-to-action for every American to understand the ideals behind the 'noble experiment in ordered liberty' that is America. It also paints a vivid picture of the tremendous fragility of that experiment and explains why that fragility has been dangerously forgotten - and in doing so it lays out our own responsibility to live those ideals and carry on those freedoms. Metaxas believes America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based upon liberty and freedom.
- Contents:
- The promise
- The idea of America
- The golden triangle of freedom
- "The wonder of the age"
- Venerating our heroes
- The importance of moral leaders
- "The almost chosen people"
- Loving America
- This is America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (259-260).
- ISBN:
- 9781101979983
- 1101979984
- OCLC:
- 928480125
- Publisher Number:
- 99968262713
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