TY  - BOOK
AU  - Metaxas,Eric
TI  - If you can keep it: the forgotten promise of American liberty 
SN  - 9781101979990
AV  - JC 599 M587i 2016
U1  - 323.440973 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Liberty
KW  - United States
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Democracia
KW  - Historia
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Libertad
KW  - Derechos civiles
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Política y gobierno
N1  - Introduction: The idea of America --  The golden triangle of freedom --  "The wonder of the age" --  Venerating our heroes --  The importance of moral leaders --  "The almost chosen people" --  Loving America
N2  - Eric Metaxas offers a thrilling review of America's uniqueness, and a sobering reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless people truly understand what their founding fathers meant for them to be. The book includes a stirring call-to-action for every American to understand the ideals behind the 'noble experiment in ordered liberty' that is America. It also paints a vivid picture of the tremendous fragility of that experiment and explains why that fragility has been dangerously forgotten - and in doing so it lays out our own responsibility to live those ideals and carry on those freedoms. Metaxas believes America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based upon liberty and freedom
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