Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society

By William Damon

Book Overview

The author argues that we are failing to prepare today's young people to be responsible American citizens--to the detriment of their life prospects and those of liberty in the United States of the future. He identifies the problems--the declines in civic purpose and patriotism, crises of faith, cynicism, self-absorption, ignorance, indifference to the common good--and shows that our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding, and behavior of large portions of the youth in our country today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817913645
• ISBN13: 9780817913649
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"