The Pocket Patriot: An Introduction to the Principles of Freedom
George Grant
G. K. Chesterton once quipped that America is the only nation ever founded on a creed. While the other nations focus on ethnicity, geography, ideology, or tradition, America was founded on certain ideas about freedom, human dignity, and social responsibility. This profound peculiarity was what most struck Alexis de Toqueville when he visited in the early nineteenth century.
About the same time, American educators began to realize that if their experiment in liberty was to succeed, informed patriotism must be instilled in the young. Thus rising citizens were presented with a small handbook, a brief guide to the essential element of the American creed.
The Pocket Patriot is an update version of that vaunted tradition. A citizenship primer for a new generation of Americans, it includes such documents as The Mayflower Compact, Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech, the Declaration of Independence, biographies of the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the amendments to the Constitution, "The Star-Spangled Banner," and short biographical sketches of the lives of the presidents. A concise introduction to the foundational ideas, documents, events, and personalities of American freedom, it is an ideal resource for citizens contemplating the direction they wish to the nation to take during election years.
"Posterity: you will never know how much it cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." —John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States
 | GEORGE GRANT is director of the King’s Meadow Study Center, editor of the Stirling Bridge newsletter, president of the Covenant Classical School Association, and professor of moral philosophy at Bannockburn College. The author or coauthor of more than fifty books, he lives in Middle Tennessee. |
$9.95, Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-58182-092-5 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-092-8 (Paperback)
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