Ameritopia_ The Unmaking of America - Mark R. Levin [107]
Finally, to my fellow Americans—you have sacrificed so much for the betterment of mankind, for which you are owed the world’s gratitude. But we must now muster the same strength, courage, and wisdom to confront the perils we face at home today. We cannot put it off to some future date. Our generation is duty-bound to the next generation to preserve this great republic, just as our forefathers were duty-bound to us. The day is late and the hour is now.
In memory of Pepsi, Griffen, and Sprite Levin
Thank you for all the joy and happiness.
*NOTE: Many of the writers quoted in this book made frequent use of italic type. In the interest of accuracy, all italics appear as they did in the original documents and translations.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I: ON UTOPIANISM
CHAPTER ONE The Tyranny of Utopia
CHAPTER TWO Plato’s Republic and the Perfect Society
CHAPTER THREE Thomas More’s Utopia and Radical Egalitarianism
CHAPTER FOUR Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan and the All-Powerful State
CHAPTER FIVE Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto and the Class Struggle
PART II: ON AMERICANISM
CHAPTER SIX John Locke and the Nature of Man
CHAPTER SEVEN The Influence of Locke on the Founders
CHAPTER EIGHT Charles de Montesquieu and Republican Government
CHAPTER NINE The Influence of Montesquieu on the Framers
CHAPTER TEN Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America
PART III: ON UTOPIANISM AND AMERICANISM
CHAPTER ELEVEN Post-Constitutional America
CHAPTER TWELVE Ameritopia
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments