CONDITION:
Brand new, publisher overstock with light shelf wear and remainder mark on bottom and bottom edge of DJ. If you need more than 1 copy please let me know as I often have extras on hand that are not included in the "available quantity for sale".
BOOK DETAILS:
- Hardcover/Hardback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Viking (June 14, 2016)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1101979984
- ISBN-13: 978-1101979983
- Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
BOOK OVERVIEW:
#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.