The following essay is adapted from the recently released book LESSONS IN LIBERTY: Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans (HarperCollins) by Jeremy S. Adams
Decades and centuries in the future, historians will look back at our peculiar era and note a vexing duality within the American soul.
At the apparent apex of our successes and triumphs, at the peak of individual freedom and bountiful opportunity, Americans from all walks of life seemed to have suddenly lost faith in themselves and in the animating institutions of their civilization.
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