[bksvol-discuss] Currently scanning
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:01:54 -0400
Hi all,
I will be scanning "Come Home America" by William Greider.
Cindy, will you please add this to your list?
From the book jacket...
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present," Abraham
J. Lincoln once declared. "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and
we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so must we think anew,
and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our
country."
His words are from 1862, when the Civil War was in its second year and
already more terrible than expected. I think we are in a roughly similar
place, without a great war to focus our energies. The "stormy present" has
begun and it will become harsher and more confusing. But if we think anew,
we can save the country.
Come home, America. Instead of trying to run the world, let us tend our own
wounded society. Let go of inflated claims to global dominance. Instead,
redeem the fundamental values and sacred principles of the national
inheritance. Do not resign from the world. Rejoin it on more practical and
promising terms.
Deborah
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