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    A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future

    By Os Guinness

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    "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

    Abraham Lincoln

    Nothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American republic could remain free forever. But how was this to be done, and are Americans doing it today?

    It is not enough for freedom to be won. It must also be sustained. Cultural observer Os Guinness argues that the American experiment in freedom is at risk. Summoning historical evidence on how democracies evolve, Guinness shows that contemporary views of freedom--most typically, a negative freedom from constraint-- are unsustainable because they undermine the conditions necessary for freedom to thrive. He calls us to reconsider the audacity of sustainable freedom and what it would take to restore it.

    "In the end," Guinness writes, "the ultimate threat to the American republic will be Americans. The problem is not wolves at the door but termites in the floor." The future of the republic depends on whether Americans will rise to the challenge of living up to America's unfulfilled potential for freedom, both for itself and for the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJun 11, 2012
    ISBN9780830866823
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    A Free People's Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future
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    Os Guinness

    Os Guinness (DPhil, University of Oxford) is an author and social critic. He is currently a senior fellow at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics in Oxford and has written or edited more than thirty books. Os has spoken at dozens of the world’s major universities and political and business conferences on many issues, including religious freedom. He lives with his wife, Jenny, near Washington, DC.

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    • 2/5
      This was a difficult book for me to get into and read. The author presents a problem for all of us. We claim to be free but only consider and work for freedom from constraints. We do not work at or care for duty, virtue or pursuing excellence. The author is not a US citizen and I always find it difficult to read and/or accept criticism or advice from a non-citizen. I feel they really should not critique our society but should look at an analyze their own. Each country has enough of the population who will examine and analyze their own societies, without having outsiders do the job. I also am not sure he is correct when he says that we only worry about eliminating constraints, for I think out history is full of patriots who answer to duty and definitely pursue excellence. Thus, my difficulty reading this book. I received this book from goodreads.
    • 5/5
      This is one of the best books on the topic of freedom and liberty. A must read for both liberals and conservatives - in short, every American.