If You Can Maintain It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

#1 New York Instances bestselling writer Eric Metaxas delivers a rare e-book that’s half historical past and half rousing name to arms, steeped in a vital evaluation of our founding fathers’ authentic intentions for America. 

In 1787, when the Structure was drafted, a lady requested Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American folks. “A republic,” he shot again, “for those who can maintain it.” Greater than two centuries later, Metaxas examines what meaning and the way we’re doing on that rating.

If You Can Maintain It is without delay an exciting evaluation of America’s uniqueness—together with our position as a “nation of countries”—and a chilling reminder that America’s greatness can not proceed except we embrace our personal essential position in dwelling out what the founders entrusted to us. Metaxas explains that America isn’t a nation bounded by ethnic id or geography, however moderately by a radical and unprecedented thought, primarily based on liberty and freedom for all. He cautions us that it is almost previous time we reconnect to that concept, or we could lose the very basis of what made us distinctive within the first place.