America Agonistes: America’s 250th and the Restoration of a Nation in Conflict with Itself and Its Past

by Os Guinness

194 pages, Hardcover

Published September 22, 2025

About the author

Os Guinness (D.Phil., Oxford) is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including The American Hour, Time for Truth and The Case for Civility. A frequent speaker and prominent social critic, he was the founder of the Trinity Forum and has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies. He lives near Washington, D.C.

Reviews

[Jameson E · Rating 4 out of 5]

A perfect read to commemorate the 250th birthday of these United States. And a reminder that, when asked after the signing of the Constitution eleven years later what type of government the country would have, Benjamin Franklin said, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”