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Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
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Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

Written by Dennis Prager

Narrated by Erik Bergman

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In this visionary book, Dennis Prager, one of America's most original thinkers, contends that humanity confronts a monumental choice. The whole world must decide between American values and its two oppositional alternatives: Islamism and European-style democratic socialism.

Prager—a bestselling author, columnist, and nationally syndicated radio talk show host who is read and heard by millions of people in America and abroad—makes the case for the American value system as the most viable program ever devised to produce a good society. Those values are explained here more clearly and persuasively than ever before.

Still the Best Hope deals with three huge themes: The first is perhaps the most persuasive explanation for why Leftism has been and will always be a moral failure, despite its acknowledged appeal to many people of goodwill. The second explains why fundamentalist Islam, despite its historic and growing appeal, cannot make a good society. But Prager holds out hope for an open and tolerant Islam and explains why it will emerge from faithful American Muslims. The third is a singularly persuasive defense and explanation of what Prager calls the "American Trinity": liberty, values rooted in the Creator, and the melting-pot ideal. These values are inscribed on every American coin as "Liberty," "In God We Trust," and "E Pluribus Unum," and they are the reasons for America's greatness. Without them, America will cease to be an exceptional nation, and therefore cease to be America.

Prager shows why these values can and must be adopted by every nation and culture in the world, why Americans must relearn and recommit to these values, and why America must vigorously export them. For if the world does not adopt American values, the result will be chaos and barbarism on an unprecedented scale.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperAudio
Release dateApr 24, 2012
ISBN9780062116321
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Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager is a bestselling author, columnist, and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. A noted thinker who is equally at home in the secular and religious worlds, he taught the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (the Torah) verse by verse from the Hebrew for more than twenty-five years at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He is the author of many books including The Ten Commandments: Still the Best Moral Code, Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual, and Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph, and is the co-founder of Prager University. He resides in Sherman Oaks, CA.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The author removes the sugarcoating of liberal views and policies, and he plainly explains with ample evidence the danger that lies within those boundaries of thought. Most importantly, however, is the emphasis on how American values and their importance in keeping America the beacon of hope and freedom at home and as an example for other countries to follow abroad.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Very interesting. I will say a must read or listen if one wants to understand some of today's realities and more.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book helps to clarify the differences between Leftism and Conservatism. It enumerates the three basic American values: liberty, in God we trust and e pluribus unum, and explains why these are important values to American conservatives. It advocates that other countries adopt these values, without suggesting that other nations adopt any particular religion or lose their national identity.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The book is divided into three section: Leftism, Islamism, and America. The section on leftism is the best dissection of American liberalism I've read to date and is alone worth the price of admission. Were this the only section of the book it would deserve ten stars. I found the section on Islam to be at once a respectful and forthright examination of the shortcomings of Islam and a call for it to rise above them. The section detailing America's values is all pretty rudimentary stuff for any thinking conservative; however Prager's articulation is both useful and beneficial.My one (rather small) complaint about the book is Prager's less than accurate wording on some key philosophical concepts. (1) He conflates the terms "irrational" and "non-rational", attributing both to religion. True religion has aspects of the non-rational (beyond reason), but not the irrational (contrary to reason). (2) Prager calls God the "author" of the moral law--true in part but it denotes a certain arbitrariness to the moral law. More properly, God is the ground of the moral law. Goodness, Justice, et al are what they are not because of some arbitrary divine dictate, but because they are rooted in God's nature, in God who IS Goodness, Justice, et al. (3) Prager calls the heart the "generator of emotions". However, in classic Christian (i.e. Catholic) theology the heart is the root and center of the human person. "Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life" (Proverbs 4:23). With the heart we make the fundamental choice for good or evil. As such, the heart is more properly related to the will than the emotions. (4) Prager calls reason amoral and says that it is just as readily employed for evil as for good. How can this be if reason reflects the order of the universe in which there is a moral law? This flies in the face of Catholic natural law theology. Evil may appear rational IF its premises are granted, but at root it is contrary to reason. (5) Prager says that good and evil are "polar opposites". Evil is not a thing. If it were, then God would be responsible for creating it. Evil is a privation, or a subtraction, from good, as darkness is not the opposite of light, but merely the absence of light. (6) Prager says that God exists entirely outside nature. However, God is BOTH transcendent to and immanent in creation. He is the source and ground of all being. As such He sustains all of creation at every instance of its existence. (7) Prager says that nature has "no intrinsic value", but in the Bible (the Torah) which Prager quotes freely, God calls creation "good". All throughout the Bible, the majesty of creation is seen as pointing to God's existence and power.Again, these are minor quibbles. They do not involve major themes in the book. In fact, the basic gist of Prager's arguments are right on target. If you want an incisive dissection of the essence of leftism/American liberalism that is both pithy and comprehensive, do not hesitate to procure this book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The book is preaching to the choir. It's not going to persuade anyone to modify their political views.