The Pursuit of Liberty

The United States is indeed exceptional. That, however, raises several important questions. Is there something unique in our culture which allowed the freedom and democracy that account for American exceptionalism to take hold? If there is, can our ideals be planted in such arid fields as the Middle East? Can those ideals survive as our animating principles in an age that makes multiculturalism a core virtue and cultural discrimination a condemnable vice? James Piereson has plumbed the depths of these critical issues by assembling a series of scintillating essays from some of the world's most important thinkers. This collection is at once timeless and never more urgently needed. Book jacket.