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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 322.10973 EAN: 9780895267184 ISBN: 0895267187 Label: Regnery Publishing, Inc. Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 366 Publication Date: April 03, 1996 Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc. Studio: Regnery Publishing, Inc. Related Items:
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 Rating:  - This is the one book every high school student should read.I read this several times many years ago. My now grown kids read it, at my suggestion, while in high school. They have been the scourge of their liberal instructors and professors since then. If I could mandate one book that had to be read and understood before you graduated from high school this would be it. I wish somebody would do an audiobook of it as I would love to listen to it while traveling. Rating:  - The Liberal History LessonVeteran journalist M. Stanton Evans begins THE THEME IS FREEDOM by describing what he calls the "liberal history lesson": The freedom and intellectual progress that existed in the ancient world was snuffed out by the Middle Ages only to be reborn in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. It came to fruition in the United States, whose founders created a secular nation based on enlightenment ideas. They enshrined this in the first amendment, creating a "separation of church and state" justifying ... Read More Rating: - The theme is freedom... The title says it all!From the teachings of Jesus Christ and Saint Augustine, to the Magna Carta and Blackstone, and still onward to the Puritans and the American founding fathers, M. Stanton Evans traces the ascendancy of liberty in the West. Evans gives particular attention to the roots of Western liberty, which arose in the fertile soil of Christianity; added focus is given to the Anglo-American common law tradition. This is a prudent piece of scholarship that eschews the Enlightenment conception of history while explaining ... Read More Rating: - Another confirmation of the Bible's significanceThis book is a confirmation of the truths of the impact of the Bible on America: its foundation and its culture. The uniqueness of the USA in the world today continues to prove the scholarship of Stanton's work. For anyone who studies history, this book is a supurb summary of how our laws, moral values, and concept of individualism come directly from the Bible and its teachings. While America is leaving many of these principles over time, the events following September 11 reafirmed our roots as described by ... Read More Rating: - InsightfulI was assigned this book to read for a master's class several years ago, and how glad I was for it. Evans thoroughly backs up his arguments -- and in my view, his most compelling stance is that the American Revolution was actually a *conservative* one, directly challenging modern "conventional wisdom." How so? In a nutshell, he says that by desiring to uphold decades and centuries of established legal foundations, the Founders were at odds with an England (Parliament) that was more and more acting without lawful ... Read More 
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