A Nation Like No Other - Why American Exceptionalism Matters

✍ Scribed by Gingrich, Newt

• Book ID: 106977782
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 235 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

It's become fashionable among the liberal elite to downplay, deride, even deny America's greatness. The political correctness police insist that America is "hated" around the world for being too big, too powerful, too rich, too successful, too loud, too intrusive. And besides, it's not nice to brag.

They are completely missing the point.

America's greatness, America's exceptional greatness, is not based on that fact that we are the most powerful, most prosperous--and most generous--nation on earth. Rather, those things are the result of American Exceptionalism.

To understand American Exceptionalism, as Newt Gingrich passionately argues in A Nation Like No Other , one must understand our unique birth as a nation. American Exceptionalism is found in the simple yet utterly remarkable principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence, "that all men are created equal, that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, that...