Rediscovering America: Liberty, Equality, and the Crisis of Democracy by John Agresto {Moose-chan}[BЯ]

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What has happened to the American ideals of liberty and equality? Has America’s image become tarnished at home and abroad? Does democracy itself merely trigger repression instead of fulfilling the promise of freedom? Can individual rights coexist with national security?

In Rediscovering America, John Agresto urges a return to the founding principles of our republic in order to revive the great American experiment. Rejecting the simple slogans of both the left and the right, Agresto confronts the challenges that inequality and injustice pose to our ideals of democracy and freedom.

From the burgeoning of new “rights” to the growth of entitlements, from clamor in the public square to ideological struggles in the halls of academia, Rediscovering America is a trenchant critique of our contemporary political culture. The art of American statecraft, Agresto argues, is both to free and to restrain, to turn individual liberty into a social good. Our task is to understand, respect, and transmit what the Founding Fathers hoped to accomplish, why they did what they did, and how they hoped to achieve it.

Drawing on history, political theory, and current affairs, Rediscovering America is a searching examination of our country’s crisis in self-understanding — and a ringing call to restore America’s promise to its citizens and to the world.

Publisher: Asahina & Wallace (June 27, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1940412161
ISBN-13: 978-1940412160