America has lost its way. And America will fall—unless.
Revolution? Oligarchy? Or homecoming? Americans are approaching a 'zero hour’ for the republic and its distinctive view of ordered freedom. America is caught between two revolutions and alternately suppresses and squanders freedom with a prodigal carelessness, with little understanding of the responsibilities that freedom requires.
Os Guinness warns that if America abandons its distinctive ideals and ideas, we will have carved into the chronicles of history yet another example of the failure of a free society. Like other crucial times in world history, the present crisis is a 'civilizational moment’ and also a pivot point that could lead to national renewal. Outlining seven key foundation stones of freedom, Guinness lays out a pathway for defining and ordering freedom, righting national wrongs, and passing freedom's baton from generation to generation.
Human freedom is precious and rare, and citizens who prize it must do what it takes to renew and sustain societies that are free for all of their members. America's window of opportunity is brief, and the alternative to renewal is bleak. The present moment must not be missed.
Spis treści
Part One: The Urgency of the Hour
1. America Will Fall—Unless
2. Under Our Own Vine and Fig Tree
3. No Political Masterpiece?
4. The Completest Revolution of All?
5. An Offset for the Reset?
Part Two: Freedom’s Foundation Stones
6. Set Free to Be Free
7. Understood Upward
8. The Essentials of Life
9. Ordering Freedom
10. Freedom the Greatest Enemy of Freedom
11. Righting Wrongs
12. Passing the Baton
Part Three: Ultimatum
13. Zero Hour for America
Index
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Os Guinness (DPhil, Oxford) was born in China and educated in England. He is the author or editor of thirty-five books, including The Call, Renaissance, Fool's Talk, Carpe Diem Redeemed, and Last Call for Liberty. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the East West Institute. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he has addressed audiences worldwide. A passionate advocate of freedom of religion and conscience for people of all faiths and none, he was the lead drafter for both the Williamsburg Charter and the Global Charter of Conscience. He lives with his wife, Jenny, in the Washington, DC, area.