Author: Becker, Carl Lotus Becker
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 135
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lawrence M. Mead
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1641770414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Burdens of Freedom presents a new and radical interpretation of America and its challenges. The United States is an individualist society where most people seek to realize personal goals and values out in the world. This unusual, inner-driven culture was the chief reason why first Europe, then Britain, and finally America came to lead the world. But today, our deepest problems derive from groups and nations that reflect the more passive, deferential temperament of the non-West. The long-term poor and many immigrants have difficulties assimilating in America mainly because they are less inner-driven than the norm. Abroad, the United States faces challenges from Asia, which is collective-minded, and also from many poorly-governed countries in the developing world. The chief threat to American leadership is no longer foreign rivals like China but the decay of individualism within our own society. The great divide is between the individualist West, for which life is a project, and the rest of the world, in which most people seek to survive rather than achieve. This difference, although clear in research on world cultures, has been ignored in virtually all previous scholarship on American power and public policy, both at home and abroad. Burdens of Freedom is the first book to recognize that difference. It casts new light on America's greatest struggles. It re-evaluates the entire Western tradition, which took individualism for granted. How to respond to cultural difference is the greatest test of our times.
Author: American Library Association
Publisher:
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eugene H. Peterson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2011-09-02
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0802867030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arguing that the way Jesus leads and the way we follow are symbiotic, Peterson begins with a study of how the ways of those who came before Christ revealed and prepared the way of the Lord that became complete in Jesus. He then challenges the ways of the contemporary American church, showing in stark relief how what we have chosen to focus on--consumerism, celebrity, charisma, and so forth--obliterates what is unique in the Jesus way.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 3732667561
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: State of the Union Addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt