Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society Hardcover - 2011
by William Damon
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The danger from within--young citizens unprepared to sustain liberty
The real threat to America's future that lies within ourselves
Failing to prepare young people to live in a free society
The most serious danger the United States now faces, says William Damon, is not a foreign enemy--but that our country's future may end up in the hands of a citizenry incapable of sustaining the liberty that has been America's most precious legacy. In Failing Liberty 101, he argues that we are failing to prepare today's young people to be responsible American citizens--to the detriment of their life prospects and those of liberty in the United States of the future. He identifies the problems--the declines in civic purpose and patriotism, crises of faith, cynicism, self-absorption, ignorance, indifference to the common good--and shows that our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding, and behavior of large portions of the youth in our country today.
Damon explains why, unless we begin to pay attention and meet our challenge as stewards of a priceless heritage, our nation and the future prospects of all individuals dwelling here in years to come will suffer, moving away from liberty and towards despotism--and this movement will be both inevitable and astonishingly quick.
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- Title Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society
- Author William Damon
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hoover Institution Press
- Date 2011-04
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780817913649 / 0817913645
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 0.7 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Social values - United States, Civics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011017203
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.372
Media reviews
Citations
- Choice, 01/01/2012, Page 0
- Reference and Research Bk News, 10/01/2011, Page 93
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