If you can keep it : the forgotten promise of American liberty.

The Resource If you can keep it : the forgotten promise of American liberty.

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If you can keep it : the forgotten promise of American liberty.

Title remainder

the forgotten promise of American liberty.

Statement of responsibility

Eric Metaxas.

Language

eng

Summary

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<U+0014>including our role as a "nation of nations"<U+0014>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 on 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

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

323.440973

Index

no index present

LC call number

JC585

LC item number

.M48 2016

Literary form

non fiction

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