Uncommon Sense: A Common Citizen's Guide to Rebuilding America

In this collection of 21 essays, Stephen Palmer challenges freedom-lovers to do more than march on Washington -- he challenges them to reform their own hearts.

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." Thomas Paine

In 1776, Thomas Paine's Common Sense showered sparks on the tinder of revolution. With the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Americans formally claimed their rights, and that tinder exploded into a new age for mankind.

But more than 200 years later, the flames of freedom are dying. We cry that Washington has failed us, but that is not where the blame lies.

With our rights, We the People were given the duty to maintain them. We the People are the problem. And We the People are the solution. Our republic will be restored not through political revolution, but through a revolution of the soul -- not as we point fingers upward, but as we turn inward.

In an age of blame, this is uncommon sense. And it's precisely what America needs to rekindle her light.

Stephen Palmer is a freelance book writer and a founding partner of the Center for Social Leadership, an action organization with the purpose of "empowering ordinary citizens to make an extraordinary difference."

He co-authored the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Businessweek, and Amazon bestseller Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity.

He is also the co-author of Hub Mentality: Shifting from Business Transactions to Community Interactions.

A dedicated learner and promoter of personal, financial, and governmental freedom, Stephen is passionate about political philosophy, economics, history, personal finance, entrepreneurship, religion and spirituality, family, education and culture.

He holds a liberal arts degree and is also and a graduate and faculty member of the "non-traditional business school" Wizard Academy.

Stephen and his wife are raising their four children in southern Utah.