If you can keep it : the forgotten promise of American liberty
(2016)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
323.44/METAXAS,E

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 323.44/METAXAS,E Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, [2016]
©2016
DESCRIPTION

260 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781101979983, 1101979984 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

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