If You Can Keep It

The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

By: Eric Metaxas

Narrated by: Eric Metaxas

#1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America.

In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A republic," he shot back, "if you can keep it." More than two centuries later, Metaxas examines what that means and how we are doing on that score.

If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness—including our role as a "nation of nations"—and a chilling reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we embrace our own crucial role in living out what the founders entrusted to us. Metaxas explains that America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based on liberty and freedom for all. He cautions us that it's nearly past time we reconnect to that idea, or we may lose the very foundation of what made us exceptional in the first place.

Best possible read on July 4th.

Very compelling. Superbly well written. This filled a hideous hole in the public school education I received in the 60's and 70's in California. We must never forget what really makes America great and why it is so vitally important that it remain so.

A Great Reminder of Who we are and Who we must Remain to be!!!

We loved this book and everything about it!!! We have resolved to read many more of Eric Metaxas’ works!

Every American should read this book!

Inspiring, honest, well-balanced, and beautiful. Full of stories that point us to what makes our Republic unique and worth protecting and cherishing.

In the fog

there is greatness in the bones of America. Tragically few aren't listoning to the call.

Amazing, inspiring, enlightening! !

couldn't put it down! should have kept a pen and paper handy to wrote down great ideas to ponder later!