America: Imagine a World Without Her [VINTAGE 2014] [SIGNED]

Fine unread condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Connect with Dinesh D'Sousa; Notes and Index. Illustrated with a section of both black-and-white and color photographic plates. A small rectangular former owner address label neatly affixed to the blank first free front endpaper. Signed and inscribed by the author, Dinesh D'Souza, with thick blue Sharpie/marker on the full title page. "Progressives are the architects of American decline, and progressivism is the ideology of American suicide. Here's a way to think about what Obama, Hillary, and the progressives are doing. Imagine if they were in charge of a basketball team with a fifty-year track record of success. We hired them as coaches to keep the team winning. Yet they designed plays to ensure the team would lose. They didn't do so because they hated the team, but because they thought it was wrong for the team to win so much. The long previous record of victories, they argued, was based on exploitation, and it would be better for everyone if our team wasn't so dominant. If we had such a coaching staff, there is little doubt that we would get rid of them. We would ask ourselves why we hired them in the first place." - from the rear jacket cover. "Conceived in liberty.or in oppressions? Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world? New York Times bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza says these questions are no mere academic exercise. "American the Inexusable" is the view taught in our schools, preached by Hollywood, and shaping the policies of the Obama administration. If America is a force for inequality and injustice in the world, they argue, its power deserves to be diminished; if traditional America is based on oppression and theft, then traditional America must be "remade" - and the federal government can do the "remaking." D'Souza, an Indian immigrant to this country and proud American citizen, fears for America's future. He loves this country and fears that unless the progressives' anti-American arguments are met forcibly and on their own terms, America will cease to be the beacon of freedom and hope that it always has been. In [the book] D'Souza offers a passionate and sharply reasoned defense of America, knocking down every important accusation made by progressives against our country. In this book, you'll learn: Why it is a pernicious myth that English colonists "stole" America from the Indians or that American settlers and soldiers "stole" the southwest from Mexico. Why the descendants of slaves - the successive waves of immigrants to the United States - are better off here than in their old countries; How America, more than any other country, is based on rewarding the enterprise and hard work of the common man; How traditional American virtues sustain prosperity and freedom, and progressive arguments about "liberation" and "justice undercut them; How progressive demagoguery about "inequality" expands the power of government and its grasp on the taxpayer's wallet; Why we should fear the progressive agenda of "reform", which is in fact an agenda of totalitarian control of the state over the individual; Why national decline is a choice - a choice that it is still not too late to reverse. Provocative in its analysis, stunning in its conclusions." - excerpt from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "Also a major motion picture.".…