If You Can Keep It The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty [Paperback]

#1New York Timesbestselling 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 Itis 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.Praise forIf You Can Keep It

Profound and thoroughly entertaining . . . This book has made me think in ways that I haven’t in years. Metaxas is a major writer. Not to be missed.  —Dick Cavett

If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty—along with such essentials asUp from Slavery by Booker T. Washington andThe 5000 Year Leapby W. Cleon Skousen—must be front and center on every reading list. —The Washington Times

Everyone in every country, at every socioeconomic level, of every religious and secular persuasion, of every political bent, should read it. . . . It’s the book you must read this year.  —Martha Rogers, PhD, coauthor ofExtreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage