Last Call for Liberty, Os Guinness
Last Call for Liberty, Os Guinness
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Last Call for Liberty
How America's Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat

Author: Os Guinness

Narrator: Os Guinness

Unabridged: 14 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mission Audio

Published: 10/02/2018


Synopsis

The hour is critical. The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Conflicts, hostility, and incivility now threaten to tear the country apart. Competing visions have led to a dangerous moment of cultural self-destruction. This is no longer politics as usual, but an era of political warfare where our enemies are not foreign adversaries, but our fellow citizens. Yet the roots of the crisis are deeper than many realize. Os Guinness argues that we face a fundamental crisis of freedom, as America's genius for freedom has become her Achilles' heel. Our society's conflicts are rooted in two rival views of freedom, one embodied in "1776" and the ideals of the American Revolution, and the other in "1789" and the ideals of the French Revolution. Once again America has become a house divided, and Americans must make up their minds as to which freedom to follow. Will the constitutional republic be restored or replaced? This grand treatment of history, civics, and ethics in the Jewish and Christian traditions represents Guinness's definitive exploration of the prospects for human freedom today. He calls for a national conversation on the nature of freedom, and poses key questions for concerned citizens to consider as we face a critical chapter in the American story. He offers readers a checklist by which they can assess the character and consequences of the freedoms they are choosing. In the tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville, Guinness provides a visitor's careful observation of the American experiment. Discover here a stirring vision for faithful citizenship and renewed responsibility for not only the nation but also the watching world.

About Os Guinness

Os Guinness is an author and speaker living in the Washington, D.C., area. Born in China during World War II, Guinness left in 1951, after the Chinese Revolution. A graduate of the University of London and Oxford, Guinness is a former visiting fellow of the Brookings Institution. He has written or edited more than twenty books, including The Call, Invitation to the Classics, and Long Journey Home. A frequent speaker and seminar leader at political and business conferences in the United States, Europe, and Asia, Guinness has lectured at many universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Stanford, and has often spoken on Capitol Hill.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jimmy

I’m not sure how Os Guinness pulled off writing the book of the hour while at the same time giving us one for many generations to come, but in Last Call for Liberty he has done that very thing. He says so much to our generation, yet it will be the words that will be needed in a hundred years. At lea......more

Goodreads review by David

A sharp and insightful analysis of the American Experiment and the liberty that we have enjoyed for over two hundred years. Broadly, Guinness contrasts the American Revolution of 1776 with the French Revolution of 1789. The former was grounded in religious freedom and charity, the latter in atheism......more

Heady book! Comparing the revolution if 1776 with the revolution of 1789 and why it matters today. If all you do is read the final chapter it is well worth the price of the book! Highly recommended......more

Goodreads review by Michael

Over the past five or six years I have been puzzled and concerned at a change that has come over American assumptions and actions. That change seems to be a shift from a position of "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty until proven innocent." Make an accusation and the accused is automatically......more

Goodreads review by Joseph

I have read a bit of Os Guinness over the past year or so, and this seems to be one of the most important books that he has written. In a way, I believe that Last Call for Liberty is the summation of much of Guinness thinking and writing of the last 20 years, and his clarion call for Americans to ta......more