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

Description

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 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. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Viking (June 14, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1101979984
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 83
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.7 x 0.99 x 8.68 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #297,824 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #605 in Political Commentary & Opinion #778 in Women in History #1,060 in History of Christianity (Books)
• #605 in Political Commentary & Opinion
• #778 in Women in History