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Why Liberals---and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again
HarperCollins
June 2006
On Sale: June 1, 2006
272 pages
ISBN: 0060841613
EAN: 9780060841614
Kindle: B000GCFXD6
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Non-Fiction Political
Once upon a time, liberals knew what they believed. They
believed America must lead the world by persuasion, not
command. And they believed that by championing freedom
overseas, America itself could become more free. That
liberal spirit won America's trust at the dawn of the cold
war. Then it collapsed in the wake of Vietnam. Now, after
9/11, and the failed presidency of George W. Bush, America
needs it back. In this powerful and provocative book, Peter Beinart offers
a new liberal vision, based on principles liberals too often
forget: That America's greatness cannot simply be asserted;
it must be proved. That to be good, America does not have to
be pure. That American leadership is not American empire.
And that liberalism cannot merely define itself against the
right, but must fervently oppose the totalitarianism that
blighted Europe a half century ago, and which stalks the
Islamic world today. With liberals severed from their own history, conservatives
have drawn on theirs -- the principles of national
chauvinism and moral complacency that America once rejected.
The country will reject them again, and embrace the creed
that brought it greatness before. But only if liberals
remember what that means. It means an unyielding hostility
to totalitarianism -- and a recognition that defeating it
requires bringing hope to the bleakest corners of the globe.
And it means understanding that democracy begins at home, in
a nation that does not merely preach about justice, but
becomes more just itself. Peter Beinart's The Good Fight is a passionate rejoinder to
the conservatives who have ruled Washington since 9/11. It
is an intellectual lifeline for a Democratic Party lying
flat on its back. And it is a call for liberals to revive
the spirit that swept America, and inspired the world.
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