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A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future is unavailable, but you can change that!

"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....

women. But the perennial challenges to sustainable freedom go well beyond these long-standing contradictions so amply explored by historians since the 1960s. The glory of freedom should never blind anyone to its immoderate nature and therefore to the stern requirements that surround it. For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom. Throughout the course of history, freedom presents an inescapable and tightly coiled conundrum that sums up the challenge
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