If You Can Keep It

The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

De: Eric Metaxas

Narrado por: Eric Metaxas

#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.

In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A republic," he shot back, "if you can keep it." More than two centuries later, Metaxas examines what that means and how we are doing on that score.

If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness—including our role as a "nation of nations"—and a chilling reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we embrace our own crucial role in living out what the founders entrusted to us. Metaxas explains that America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based on liberty and freedom for all. He cautions us that it's nearly past time we reconnect to that idea, or we may lose the very foundation of what made us exceptional in the first place.

A New Favorite

Material seemed rudimentary at first, but this has become one of my favorite books. One disappointment is that it hadn't come out sooner, grateful for the content and what it can mean for the refurbishment and re-establishment or core American values.

Highly recommended read for all Americans

Metaxas examines liberty as it was defined when our country was born. A must read!

Another fabulous Eric Metaxas

Always love Eric ability to tell a historically accurate yet entertaining and inspiring story. Immediately struck by his story of Squanto and his epilogue reflections of lady Liberty. Read it. And read Bonhoeffer and William Wilberforce and 7 men and 7 women and oh you get it.

If you know and love her, you will fight for Her!

In today's battles, this book has relevance! Worth your time and effort to apply what you learn.

Brilliant, moving, necessary

This book is so thoughtful, true, and well written. It needs to be read by all Americans young and old. i will be listening to it again on my family's road trip this summer, so my teenage daughters can taste some of the wisdom and history in this book. Beyond excellent.