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Also by Eric Metaxas:

If You Can Keep It, June 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Miracles, November 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Bonhoeffer, April 2010
Hardcover
It's Time to Sleep, My Love, October 2008
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IF YOU CAN KEEP IT
By: Eric Metaxas

Viking
June 2016
On Sale: June 14, 2016
ISBN: 1101979984
EAN: 9781101979983
Kindle: B0191X35JY
Hardcover / e-Book
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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.