Still the Best Hope

Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

By: Dennis Prager

Narrated by: Erik Bergman

Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

In this visionary book, Dennis Prager, one of America's most original thinkers, contends that humanity confronts a monumental choice. The whole world must decide between American values and its two oppositional alternatives: Islamism and European-style democratic socialism.

Prager - a bestselling author, columnist, and nationally syndicated radio talk show host who is read and heard by millions of people in America and abroad - makes the case for the American value system as the most viable program ever devised to produce a good society. Those values are explained here more clearly and persuasively than ever before.

Still the Best Hope deals with three huge themes: The first is perhaps the most persuasive explanation for why Leftism has been and will always be a moral failure, despite its acknowledged appeal to many people of goodwill. The second explains why fundamentalist Islam, despite its historic and growing appeal, cannot make a good society. But Prager holds out hope for an open and tolerant Islam and explains why it will emerge from faithful American Muslims. The third is a singularly persuasive defense and explanation of what Prager calls the "American Trinity": liberty, values rooted in the Creator, and the melting-pot ideal. These values are inscribed on every American coin as "Liberty," "In God We Trust," and "E Pluribus Unum," and they are the reasons for America's greatness. Without them, America will cease to be an exceptional nation, and therefore cease to be America.

Prager shows why these values can and must be adopted by every nation and culture in the world, why Americans must relearn and recommit to these values, and why America must vigorously export them. For if the world does not adopt American values, the result will be chaos and barbarism on an unprecedented scale.

©2012 Dennis Prager (P)2012 HarperCollinsPublishers

Very Logical, Methodical Arguement for Traditional

Being a semi-regular listener of the Dennis Prager show, I expected this to be a good read/listen. I was not disappointed by the content, but I felt the reader lacked some of the insights that the book was displaying. Having a good handle on Prager's thought/speech patterns, I second guessed the reader numerous times as I felt he had missed the point of what he was reading. This is a minor issue, but it was honestly the only drawback for me.

The book was still very rewarding, and I would highly recommend it as a gift for a pre-college student, or anyone who is truly seeking cause & effect relationships for the greatness of America.

Still the best hope

Great book . it helped me appreciate American values. it helped to defeat the lefty professors I had who spent hours tearing down the USA.

Great!

I'm going to listen to it again!
Well formatted with great information. Something that should be studied and studied to get

Provoking

My eyes have been opened through this book to the mindset of and the moral decline of the America that we knew and loved. Also how we can return to the America that prospered and led the world.

America MY America

Where does Still the Best Hope rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Excellent review of the differences among philosophies of governance and way of life.

Any additional comments?

Prager explains the reasons why America is who all in the world look to for guidance to lead fostered by the exceptional nature of its founding principles.

Great book

Years of observation and analysis. Explains what the culture war is all about. You decide where your values are.

I believe every American should read this book!

As the son of immigrant parents from Mexico, I believe everyone born in America should read this book.

A love song to a bygone America

Well written and narrated, I couldn't help but feeling that America's best days are behind us. The paean to American liberty rings hollow after 3 years of COVID lockdown and vaccine mandates. A prescient warning about the danger to Taiwan and Israel should American military strength wane. Our democracy swallowed by the Deep State that works to ensure only candidates acceptable to the ruling elite have a chance of being elected. Buy this book before it is memory holed.

Fantastic

This is a great book. Very timely and so insightful for today's current events. Dennis Prager is a historian that explains relevant context for today's world problems.

My favorite book

The book covers all the topics important to America with lots of specific examples to support positions taken in this book. I recommend this book. It is a must read.