If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

Metaxas, Eric

Edité par Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, New York, 2016

New condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Eric Metaxas; Author Dedication; Introduction: The Promise; Epilogue: This Is America; Acknowledgments and Notes. "Every one in every country, at every socioeconomic level, of every religious and secular persuasion, of every political bent, should read it.It's the book you must read this year." - Martha Rogers, Ph.D. "Eric Metaxas [is] one of our nation's most brilliant and morally serious public intellectuals." - Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University. "Irresistible.compellingly written.important. Not only should evey American read it - they should then re-read it aloud to their children and grandchildren." - Dennis Prager. "Profound and thoroughly entertaining.This book has made me think in ways that I haven't in years. Metaxas is a major writer. Not to be missed." - Dick Cavett. "Eric Metaxas has done a great service to the country." - Gregory Alan Thornbury, Ph.D., president of the King's College, New York City. "Those who call for 'civility' are often uninterested in taking hard stances or are looking to shut up those who do, but Mr. Metaxas has a way of prizing civility while both staking out strong positions and defending the right of others to speak out." - The Wall Street Journal. "#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms. Steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America. In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A republic," he shot back, "if you can keep it." More than two centuries later, Metaxas examines what that means and how we are doing on that score. If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness - including our role as a "nation of nations" - and a chilling reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we embrace our own crucial role in living out what the founders entrusted to us. Metaxas explains that America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based upon liberty and freedom for all. He cautions us that it's nearly past time we reconnect to that idea, or we may lose the very foundation of what made us exceptional in the first place." - from the inner front jacket flap. N° de réf. du vendeur 010566

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of...
Éditeur : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, New York
Date d'édition : 2016
Reliure : Hardcover
Illustrateur : Ramirez, Jason (jacket design); Holmstrom, Sarah (jacket image); Walker, James Allen (author photograph); Theodor, Alissa Rose (book design)
Etat : New
Etat de la jaquette : New