Still the Best Hope - by Dennis Prager (Paperback)

About the Book

Conservative radio host and syndicated columnist Prager provides a bold, sweeping look at the future of civilization with "Still the Best Hope," and offers a strong, cogent argument for why basic American values must triumph in a dangerously uncertain world.

Book Synopsis

Conservative radio host and syndicated columnist Dennis Prager provides a bold, sweeping look at the future of civilization with Still the Best Hope, and offers a strong, cogent argument for why basic American values must triumph in a dangerously uncertain world. Humanity stands at a crossroads, and the only alternatives to the "American Trinity" of liberty, natural rights, and the melting-pot ideal of national unity are Islamic totalitarianism, European democratic socialism, capitalist dictatorship, or global chaos if we should fail. America is Still the Best Hope, as this eminently sensible, profoundly inspiring volume so powerfully proves.

From the Back Cover

Dennis Prager contends that humanity confronts a monumental choice. The whole world must choose between American values and two oppositional alternatives: fundamentalist Islam and European-style democratic socialism. In this visionary book, Prager makes the case for the American values system as the most viable program ever devised to produce a good society.

Still the Best Hope deals with three major themes, each vital to America's future. The first is perhaps the most persuasive explanation for why Leftism has been and will always be a moral failure, despite its appeal to many people of goodwill. The second explains why fundamentalist Islam also cannot make a good society--though Prager holds out hope for an open and tolerant Islam. The third is a persuasive defense of what Prager calls the "American Trinity" liberty, values rooted in the Creator, and the melting-pot ideal.

Prager shows why these values can and must be adopted by every nation and culture in the world, why Americans must relearn and recommit to these values, and why the United States must vigorously export them.

Review Quotes

"Dennis Prager here does a terrific job in defending America, and showing how the Left is wrong at just about every turn." - Bill Muehlenberg, Writer of CultureWatch

"Prager's work represents a lifetime of love of, and wisdom about, the United States, what it has been, is, and could be. It's a book about freedom and love, and the choices we're making right now." - National Review

"Dennis Prager's book is sharp, succinct and comprehensive. It admirably covers the global ground. I hope it is widely read, and I am pretty sure it will be." - Paul Johnson, British historian, author of Modern Times and A History of the American People Paul Johnson, British historian, author of Modern Times and A History of the American People Paul Johnson, British historian, author of Modern Times and A History of the American People Paul Johnson, British Historian, author of Modern Times and A History of the American People

"Occasionally, a person with rare vision can foresee the future through a deep understanding of the present. In 1897, Max Nordau said to Theodore Herzl: "They're going to kill us all." It was not that Nordau saw the future; in the words of Eric Hoffer, he saw the present. Dennis Prager, similarly, has the courage to describe the present. And in his trademarked way on his uniquely influential national radio show, of 'preferring clarity to agreement, ' he uses reason and facts, without rancor, to invite his listeners and readers not to oppose but to reason. And reason has never been more important. For if the world does not embrace American values as brilliantly explained in Still the Best Hope, and it becomes Islamist or Leftist, we are indeed doomed." - David Mamet, playwright, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross, and Academy Award and Tony nominee

"As a member of the United States Congress for more than 30 years, I have met, listened to, and read the greatest living American thinkers. Dennis Prager is one of these. His ability to explain what America stands for is so extraordinary that I have asked him on multiple occasions to address hundreds of my colleagues. If enough Americans read Still the Best Hope, America will remain what Abraham Lincoln said it was: The Last Best Hope of Earth." - David Dreier, U.S. Congressman (California), Chairman, House Rules Commitee

"[Prager] does a valuable service by presenting dozens of ways in which the values asserted by leftism conflict with American values, and reasons why leftist values are less likely to increase goodness in the world...Makes an important contribution by encouraging believers in Americanism to stand up for their values and helping them understand the ideological challenge they face." - The Washington Times