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If You Can Keep It, by Eric Metaxas

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SKU: 3584646
Eric Metaxas

Publisher Viking

Discounted price: $14.40
Original Price: $18.00
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BindingtypeHardcover
Description
Eric Metaxas, #1 New York Times bestselling author, delivers a captivating book that combines history with an empowering call to arms, rooted 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 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.
 
Chapters include:
 
- 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
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anonymous
June 19, 2016

This book has power

This is an important book to read now. Now. I was raised to understand and highly value Americas history and promise. I struggle to find strong enough words to express my current concerns for whats going on. Eric Metaxas brilliantly reviews important people and events from our countrys past some I was familiar with; many I was not. Thats part of what I especially enjoyed about this book. And, there are many great quoteables that make the ideas easy to discuss with family and friends. Thats part of the books power. If enough of us read it, take to heart his challenges, and share them with others, we can be a part of reason our liberties remain. Read this now. (For example, this quote from page 147 is inspiring: [People died] for the promise of America, for the promise of who she was destined to become. That is the proper role of the heroic, to call us higher than ourselves. To call us to fight not merely for what is ours but for what should belong to everyone for what is right.

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