First published 2019
George Will examines how America's founding vision faces attack from multiple directions. The Pulitzer Prize winner argues that natural rights and limited government created unprecedented prosperity across two centuries. Will shows how progressives and some Republicans now threaten conservative principles. Administrative agencies operate without accountability. Congress abandons its legislative duties. The executive branch ignores constitutional limits. Family structures weaken while universities decay. Will traces an intellectual war between James Madison's natural rights philosophy and Woodrow Wilson's progressivism. The Founders are losing this battle. Will calls for reversing America's political decline by returning to constitutional principles. This New York Times bestseller combines decades of political observation with analysis of Western political thought.
Genres: political-science, politics, biography-memoir, 21st-century, american-history
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: America
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century
640 pages · Hardcover · Grand Central Publishing