American Grit; What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century
Helmut Koller (Cover illustration) Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8],215, [1] pages. Notes. Index. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads "To Allison, To an old friend and colleague. Thanks for your faith in my book. Best--Tony, 18 Feb 2009." Includes chapters on The Case for a New American Nationalism; Bring Back the Draft; America Held Hostage; Making America Energy Independent; In Praise of Censorship; A Law Code for Wartime; Putting America's Interests First; Broadcasting Liberty; Back to Basics: Reading, Writing, and ROTC; and Conclusion: The Road Ahead. Anthony David "Tony" Blankley (January 21, 1948 – January 7, 2012) was an American political analyst who gained fame as the press secretary for Newt Gingrich, the first Republican Speaker of the House in forty years, and as a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. He later became an Executive Vice President with Edelman public relations in Washington, D.C. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow in National-Security Communications at the Heritage Foundation, a weekly contributor to the nationally syndicated public radio program Left, Right & Center, the author of The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? and American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century. He served as the editorial page editor for The Washington Times from 2002-2009. Prior to his career on Capitol Hill, Blankley served President Ronald Reagan as a policy analyst and speechwriter and was a staff writer for Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler. The author has been one of America's most trenchant conservative commentators and thinkers. His book is a clarion call to a new nationalism: a summons exhorting citizens to elevate love of country over love of self.
These are dangerous days for America. We face enormous challenges at home and gathering threats from abroad — and just when the situation requires us to return to the proven traditions of our history and heritage, Barack Obama and the Democrats are moving in the opposite direction and pushing exactly the wrong values and policies for our national struggle. The situation is grave indeed: but now, in “American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century,” Tony Blankley sketches out a program to get us through the next few tough years — and to revive the principles and practices that made our nation great.
Blankley says that our first thought must no longer be what is best for conservatism, liberalism, Republicans, or Democrats, if we are to survive the unprecedented threat from the global jihad just as the America-hating Left chips away at our national resolve more energetically than ever. Instead, he argues that we (and above all, our elected officials) should ask what needs to be done to protect and strengthen our nation. And the first thing we need to do, says Blankley (the bestselling author of The West’s Last Chance and a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group), is toughen up — personally, culturally, and as a national fighting force.
Blankley lays out a comprehensive program for nothing less than national survival, explaining the policies that we must adopt — a military draft, energy independence, wartime measures regarding the law and civil liberties, a truly nationalist foreign policy, a global communications strategy, and a reformed education curriculum — if our great grandchildren a hundred years from now are to look out into the world from an America still strong enough to guarantee our prosperity, our sovereignty, and our individual freedom. Measures such as these were the keys to America’s success in previous wars, says Blankley, and in American Grit he sets out a series of persuasive arguments showing why they must be rediscovered today. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Nationalism, Love of Country, Energy Independence, Conservative Values, Patriotism, Censorship, Broadcasting, ROTC, Conscription, Wartime
ISBN: 9781596985193
[Book #79587]
Price: $445.00