Lessons In Liberty

""So much of what's broken about American education boils down to refusing to love good things. Lessons in Liberty reminds us of why we love America--enlivening history through stories of great Americans. Smart, patriotic, and readable, it's what our cynical culture needs."" -- Pete Hegseth, New York Times bestselling author of Battle for the American Mind ""Self-help manuals and political treatises are thick on the shelves, but what we really need in our disorienting moment is aspirational character study--portraits of people we can look up to. It's a literary tradition as venerable as Plutarch's Lives, and almost as badly neglected. Jeremy S. Adams revives it masterfully for the modern day, drawing insight from the lives of figures both well known and unexpected. A book to be savored and handed down, like the stories of our greatest men and women, from parents to their children."" -- Spencer Klavan, author of How to Save the West ""For Americans who wring their hands about the state of the nation, Jeremy Adams offers blunt advice--do better--with examples, drawn from four centuries, of Americans who have done just that. Some of them made it to the White House, others worked in field hospitals or on tennis courts. All offer lessons we can learn from, if we try."" -- Richard Brookhiser, author of Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution ""Jeremy S. Adams is brave enough to assert what's blindingly obvious: we can learn a lot from the heroes who believed in this crazy experiment of American freedom. Lessons in Liberty should be required reading in classrooms where iconoclasm has become the new dogma."" -- Wilfred Reilly, author of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me