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How the forces of socialism seized power in America -- and how the forces of freedom can, and must, take it back
"This is the playbook for the resurgence of the conservative movement." -- Former V.P. Richard V. Cheney
The Battle: How the Fight Between Free: Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
by Arthur C. Brooks
Until recently, most Americans considered socialism
and America's Great Society welfare state programs to be
relics of the 20th century. But with the election of Barack
Obama, the forces of socialism and welfare-statism are back
with a vengeance. In The Battle: How the Fight Between Free
Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future,
celebrated economist and author Arthur C. Brooks outlines
how and why socialists have resurged in recent years; how
-- with unprecedented control over power and money -- they
are poised to drastically change not only the American
economy, but our culture; and what the rest of us must do
to defend free enterprise against this increasingly
powerful move towards big government.
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Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise
Institute, argues that the case for free enterprise has
been mishandled by conservatives. Free enterprise is more
than an economic issue, he claims -- it is an ethical
matter of preserving the values that define us as a nation:
individual liberty, equal opportunity, entrepreneurship,
and self-reliance. It is the source of our past success,
and the promise of a better future. But the recent economic
crisis has distorted our values and given the small
minority who oppose free enterprise a pretext for sweeping
European-style social democratic change. To stop them,
Brooks says, we must stop arguing in strictly materialistic
terms and seize the moral high ground -- and in this
profound yet practical book, he shows us how.
In The Battle, Arthur C. Brooks reveals:
- How there is a fundamental disagreement about America's
future between a socialist, redistributionist minority
(the 30% coalition) and a massive free enterprise, work
ethic, opportunity oriented majority (the 70% majority)
- The elite system of power which enables the 30% coalition
to dominate the 70% majority through control of academia,
the media, Hollywood, the Courts, and the bureaucracy
- How the financial crisis of 2008-2009 was used as a tool
to attack the free-enterprise system and "fundamentally
transform" the American government and way of life
- 5 key claims of the "Obama Narrative" of how and why the
financial crisis occurred -- and why each one is false
- How those who represent redistributionist, left wing
materialism have stolen the language of morality while
those who favor freedom have been maneuvered into a
series of banal and ultimately unattractive positions
- Why the main issue in the new American cultural struggle
between free enterprise and statism is not material
riches, but our freedom and ability to pursue happiness
- Why it is hugely ironic that the 30% coalition
accuses the 70% majority of materialism -- when
free enterprise has done far more to enable the life of
the soul than redistributionist economics ever has
- The moral case for free enterprise: 5 principles that
should rally the 70% majority in the battle for
the soul of America -- and that can serve as a guide to
the policies that will win the future
"After you have read this book and committed its arguments
and its salient facts to memory, you will be able to debate
any elitist redistributionist leftist and win the day in
both moral rhetoric and factual analysis. Every American
about their country's future and worried by the radicalism
of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid machine should read The Battle."
-- NEWT GINGRICH (from his Foreword)
"Loaded with fresh data and common sense, The Battle
uncovers liberalism's true grand agenda -- to change
America's culture and the American way -- and explains how
these same Americans can fight back and ultimately win."
-- WILLIAM J. BENNETT
"Economic issues are not just about money. They're about
how we live. The Battle shows how Washington power-grabbers
use financial fears to tell the rest of us how we must
live. Crucially, The Battle teaches us how to fight back."
-- MARVIN OLASKY
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