Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Levin, Mark R.

Published by Threshold Editions, New York, 2012

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As new condition light blue-white boards/navy blue spine/silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Introduction; Epilogue; Notes and Acknowledgments. "The man of system.is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board." - Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759 - from the rear outer jacket "An intellectually bracing new volume on America's transformation and the clash between constitutionalism and Utopianism - from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Liberty & Tyranny. Mark R. Levin. Hailed by Rush Limbaugh as "the most compelling defense of freedom for our time," and "the necessary book of the Obama era" by The American Spectator, Mark R. Levin's Liberty and Tyranny made the most persuasive case for conservatism and against statism in a generation. In this most crucial time, this leading conservative thinker explores the psychology, motivations, and history of the utopian movement, its architects, and its modern-day disciples - and how the individual and American society are being devoured by it. Levin asks, what is this utopian force that both allures a free people and destroys them? Levin digs deep into the past and draws astoundingly relevant parallels to contemporary America from Plato's Republic; Thomas More's Utopia; Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan; Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto.as well as from the critical works of John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other philosophical pioneers who brilliantly diagnosed the nature of man and government. As Levin meticulously pursues his subject, the reader joins him in an enlightening an compelling journey. And in the end, Levin's message is clear: the American republic is in great peril. The people must now choose between utopianism or liberty. President Ronald Reagan warned, "freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Levin agrees, and with Ameritopia, delivers another modern political classic, an indispensable guide for America in our time and in the future." - from the inner front jacket flap. Seller Inventory # 002212

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Title: Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America [FIRST ...

Publisher: Threshold Editions, New York

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition