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Viking
June 2016
On Sale: June 14, 2016
ISBN: 1101979984
EAN: 9781101979983
Kindle: B0191X35JY
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Non-Fiction
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.
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