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

by Eric Metaxas

Book Overview

#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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101979984
• ISBN13: 9781101979983
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book For This Time

I liked this book because it told some American stories along with why it is so important to see what we have. There are many history books, but this took a different angle which I loved.

A Must Read for Voting Americans

In an era where American History and Civics is no longer a requirement for high school graduation, voters have become ignorant of the rich thought that went into the formation of our national documents. For instance, few people today know that a free country requires a virtuous people, their virtue taught by their religion, and made possible by the freedom to practice that religion. When Eric Metaxas, a Yale graduate, learned this, he felt compelled to let other Americans know it as well. Metaxas writes in a style that is easily comprehended and enjoyable. All who want to know that their children will be handed a country that has the freedoms we were enjoying for the past two centuries must read this book.