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American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century
Tough Times Call for Tough Action
In American Grit, nationally syndicated columnist Tony Blankley warns that the administration of Barack Obama is a potential disaster at a dangerous time for America.
Challenging Americans to recapture the spirit of sacrifice that has historically characterized our nation, Blankley demonstrates how Obama's agenda, with its emphasis on environmental sensitivity, military retreat, and the diminution of executive branch powers, promotes national weakness as a righteous ideal. In contrast, Blankley puts forward his own nationalist program based on toughness, resoluteness, and grit--traditional American values totally absent from Obama's agenda. In this passionate, hard-hitting book, Blankley
* How Obama's plan for national service is a weak substitute for what America really needs--a full-on military draft
* How Obama's infatuation with alternative energy will damage America's national interests
* Why we need stricter laws to prevent the media from compromising our national security
* Why the office of the presidency, contrary to popular belief, has not gained enough power since the September 11 attacks
* How we can craft a successful foreign policy that avoids the mistakes of both the liberals and the neo-cons
* How our war effort in Iraq was undermined by effective enemy propaganda--and what we can do about it
* Why education reform under President Obama will fail to address one of the biggest problems in our education the failure to teach patriotism
Filled with solutions to problems ranging from the detention of enemy combatants to dealing with aggressive petro-states like Russia, Venezuela, and Iran, American Grit demonstrates how this country can emerge from its current domestic and military challenges as a stronger, more unified, and more tenacious nation--and why under President Obama, it won't.
In American Grit, nationally syndicated columnist Tony Blankley warns that the administration of Barack Obama is a potential disaster at a dangerous time for America.
Challenging Americans to recapture the spirit of sacrifice that has historically characterized our nation, Blankley demonstrates how Obama's agenda, with its emphasis on environmental sensitivity, military retreat, and the diminution of executive branch powers, promotes national weakness as a righteous ideal. In contrast, Blankley puts forward his own nationalist program based on toughness, resoluteness, and grit--traditional American values totally absent from Obama's agenda. In this passionate, hard-hitting book, Blankley
* How Obama's plan for national service is a weak substitute for what America really needs--a full-on military draft
* How Obama's infatuation with alternative energy will damage America's national interests
* Why we need stricter laws to prevent the media from compromising our national security
* Why the office of the presidency, contrary to popular belief, has not gained enough power since the September 11 attacks
* How we can craft a successful foreign policy that avoids the mistakes of both the liberals and the neo-cons
* How our war effort in Iraq was undermined by effective enemy propaganda--and what we can do about it
* Why education reform under President Obama will fail to address one of the biggest problems in our education the failure to teach patriotism
Filled with solutions to problems ranging from the detention of enemy combatants to dealing with aggressive petro-states like Russia, Venezuela, and Iran, American Grit demonstrates how this country can emerge from its current domestic and military challenges as a stronger, more unified, and more tenacious nation--and why under President Obama, it won't.
215 pages, Hardcover
First published January 13, 2007
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August 10, 2009
Blankley gives his opinions on what this Country needs to be a power through the 21st Century, which includes reinstituting a military draft and basically adopting conservative values. Clearly, the Obama Presidency is NOT his vision of what this Country needs. Fans of conservative talk radio will probably agree with his views and like the book, Obama supporters will probably see it as an expansion of the Bush-Cheney legacy.
September 19, 2010
Takes a "nationalistic" stand to keep America a leader in the future, given issues with foriegn terrorism, energy, and internal malaise. The author suggests the 50s were a high time in America and suggests revisting them, even calling for McCarthy-type hearings against academics. Interesting in the description of "extreme" measures which the author believes the country needs, the reasoning behind them, and the discussion on how extreme measures are the norm in wartime.
February 15, 2010
Good point - he gives credit to his 4 cats for helping edit the book.
Purely opinion. Lot of putdowns and sarcasm.
June 6, 2016
The author is a self-proclaimed "nationalist". His ideology is extremely paranoid and ethnocentric; typical of the nationalist ideologies of the 1930's and 1940's. Do you get the hint?
December 31, 2021
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December 23, 2012
a nationalist--what helps America, Lincoln's goal to save the union, the ballad of My Country, if not us who will defend for people's liberty around the world, could be heading into resource wars, draft, alternative energy, media treason, post911, Unstoppable Global Warming, thorough assessment of international issues with Russia China Europe and more, desire America for combination of self-reliance and community, freedom of faith, do this one again.
April 14, 2020
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"It is a pretty thought that we have a right to whatever we want or need, and that some mysterious force will deliver it; but it is, of course, a fairytale. History does not disclose any country that thrived based on the entitlements it promised itself. Nations, like people, thrive by imposing duties on themselves."
Tony Blankley, American Grit
app 6.5 hrs
"It is a pretty thought that we have a right to whatever we want or need, and that some mysterious force will deliver it; but it is, of course, a fairytale. History does not disclose any country that thrived based on the entitlements it promised itself. Nations, like people, thrive by imposing duties on themselves."
Tony Blankley, American Grit
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