If You Can Keep It

The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

De: Eric Metaxas

Narrado por: Eric Metaxas

From the number-one New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas comes If You Can Keep It, a new book that is part history and part manifesto, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America. Two hundred and forty years after the Declaration of Independence, it examines how we as a nation are living up to our founders' lofty vision for liberty and justice.

If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness, and a sobering reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we truly understand what our founding fathers meant for us 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. It's time to reconnect to that idea before America loses the very foundation for what made it exceptional in the first place.

©2016 Eric Metaxas (P)2016 Penguin Audio

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"Profound and thoroughly entertaining ... This book has made me think in ways that I haven’t in years. Metaxas is a major writer. Not to be missed." (Dick Cavett)

"If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty - along with such essentials as Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington and The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen - must be front and center on every reading list." (The Washington Times)

"Everyone in every country, at every socioeconomic level, of every religious and secular persuasion, of every political bent, should read it.... It’s the book you must read this year." (Martha Rogers, PhD, coauthor of Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage)

Best possible read on July 4th.

Very compelling. Superbly well written. This filled a hideous hole in the public school education I received in the 60's and 70's in California. We must never forget what really makes America great and why it is so vitally important that it remain so.

A Great Reminder of Who we are and Who we must Remain to be!!!

We loved this book and everything about it!!! We have resolved to read many more of Eric Metaxas’ works!

Every American should read this book!

Inspiring, honest, well-balanced, and beautiful. Full of stories that point us to what makes our Republic unique and worth protecting and cherishing.

In the fog

there is greatness in the bones of America. Tragically few aren't listoning to the call.

Amazing, inspiring, enlightening! !

couldn't put it down! should have kept a pen and paper handy to wrote down great ideas to ponder later!

A MUST READ FOR EVERY AMERICAN

My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed every page of this book. It was not only historical but inspirational. Eric Metaxas has renewed and deepened my love for our country and has expanded my respect and appreciation for those who fought and died for our freedoms. I recommend this book often and hope it has a profound influence in our country at this very needy and ignorant era.

Should be required reading in schools through out America

I bought five hard covers for my grand children. An excellent summary of American history and road map for its future

America's miracle

Absolutely loved this true story of America from it's founding to today. if you think you know America's story, this may fill in some gaps.

wonderful book

every thing was perfect! I am going out to buu a flag! I love we are a shinning city on a hill.

Just What We Need to Hear!

This is a reminder of what America is all about! Thank you for personal and historical stories we shoud know and search in our own lives for similar examples.