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

 his latest book.


And it's a gooder!  I picked it up at the library a few days ago and I've already ordered a copy from Amazon.  This is a Post It Note page marker and yellow highlighter kind of book.  The library frowns on these practices.

From Good Reads:

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

More:

The Blaze has an interview and tons of information about Prager College.

  Radio Host Dennis Prager Has a New Online ‘College’ to Combat Liberal Bias and Teach Judeo-Christian Values

For years, conservatives have lamented the perceived liberal bias that exists at the university level. To counter this continued conundrum, radio host and author Dennis Prager has crafted a solution that is ever-growing in popularity — Prager University. The media figure sat down with TheBlaze to discuss the project, while sharing his vision for its growth and continued success.   read the rest

Another winner of a book...

to go with In the Garden of Beasts.

You did take my advice and read In the Garden of Beasts, didn't you??  For those of you with a Costco, they have the paperback version in.

If not:

Right now I'm reading Hitlerland by Andrew Nagorski.  Written in the style of Erik Larson's book,  (but not nearly as well) it depends on eyewitness accounts of the Weimer Republic and after Hitler came to power.


Some people object to this method because they feel that first hand accounts are not reliable, but it is that very thing that attracts me.  It is the reason I'm often more interested in the comment section of an article than the article itself. 

Nagorski includes many more people than does Larson giving the book a scattershot feel, but if your interest is in people and their thoughts and reactions, then you will enjoy this book.
 

From Amazon:

Hitler’s rise to power, Germany’s march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes of Americans—diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes—who watched horrified and up close. By tapping a rich vein of personal testimonies, Hitlerland offers a gripping narrative full of surprising twists—and a startlingly fresh perspective on this heavily dissected era.

Some of the Americans in Weimar and then Hitler’s Germany were merely casual observers, others deliberately blind; a few were Nazi apologists. But most slowly began to understand the horror of what was unfolding, even when they found it difficult to grasp the breadth of the catastrophe.

Among the journalists, William Shirer, Edgar Mowrer, and Dorothy Thompson were increasingly alarmed. Consul General George Messersmith stood out among the American diplomats because of his passion and courage. Truman Smith, the first American official to meet Hitler, was an astute political observer and a remarkably resourceful military attaché. Historian William Dodd, whom FDR tapped as ambassador in Hitler’s Berlin, left disillusioned; his daughter Martha scandalized the embassy with her procession of lovers from her initial infatuation with Nazis she took up with. She ended as a Soviet spy.
On the scene were George Kennan, who would become famous as the architect of containment; Richard Helms, who rose to the top of the CIA; Howard K. Smith, who would coanchor the ABC Evening News. The list of prominent visitors included writers Sinclair Lewis and Thomas Wolfe, famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, the great athlete Jesse Owens, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, and black sociologist and historian W.E.B. Dubois.

Observing Hitler and his movement up close, the most perceptive of these Americans helped their reluctant countrymen begin to understand the nature of Nazi Germany as it ruthlessly eliminated political opponents, instilled hatred of Jews and anyone deemed a member of an inferior race, and readied its military and its people for a war for global domination. They helped prepare Americans for the years of struggle ahead.

A great find at Costco

I made my usual fast run through the book section of Costco, hoping against hope that they might, against all odds, have a copy of Woodrow Wilson and the Modern Roots of Liberalism (a very expensive book.)  No such luck.  But they did have A Patriot's History of the United States.

After plowing through about 100 pages since returning home, it is clear why Rush and Glenn recommend this book. 

The Woodrow Wilson book in hardcover is $94.90 and the paperback is $30.17.   Ouch!   I checked our library when I was in there a few days ago and they have a copy, but now it appears to have disappeared from their catalog. I'll hop on the phone tomorrow and find out where that pesky Wilson guy is hiding.

Liberty and Tyranny

Another must have book.

Silly me. I refused to buy this book at Costco because it looked rather small and insignificant. Since I read rather fast, I figured it would be an hour read for me and the price per word was too high.

I even mentioned that to the librarian when my name finally hit the top of the wait list (which has been a long, long time.)

Well, I was wrong! Now I will go purchase a copy of my own. This book has way more substance than I expected.

An Excellent Read!

Just Released...

I was lucky enough to grab this at the library and highly recommend it.

You can purchase it at Amazon if your library doesn't have it on the shelf.

Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide into Socialism