Return to Greatness : : How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It / / Alan Wolfe.
Has America, in its quest for goodness, sacrificed its sense of greatness? In this sharp-witted, historically informed book, veteran political observer Alan Wolfe argues that most Americans show greater concern with saving the country's soul than with making the nation great. Wolfe castigates b...
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