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It lays out three intended audiences: Americans who already affirm these values, readers who doubt or question them, and non-Americans evaluating alternative European welfare-state models. It also explains the author’s method: making general claims supported by examples while treating exceptions as compatible with valid generalization.","Still the Best Hope  \nWhy the World Needs American Values to Triumph  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDennis Prager  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nDedication  \nTo my sons, David and Aaron  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nDedication  \nPrologue: Why This Book  \nIntroduction: Humanity at the Crossroads: The Future Will Be Leftist,  \nIslamist, or American  \nPart I: Leftism Chapter 1: What Is Leftism?  \nChapter 2: Why the Left Believes What It Believes  \nChapter 3: Why the Left Succeeds  \nChapter 4: The Left’s Moral Record  \nPart II: Islam and Islamism  \nChapter 5: On Evaluating Religions  \nChapter 6: The Moral Record of Islam  \nChapter 7: Islam, America, and the West  \nChapter 8: Responses to Arguments on Behalf of Islam Part III: America and Its Unique Values  \nChapter 9: The American Trinity Addendum  \nNotes  \nIndex  \nAcknowledgments  \nAbout the Author  \nAlso by Dennis Prager  \nCredits  \nCopyright  \nAbout the Publisher  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPROLOGUE  \nWhy This Book  \nI HAVE WRITTEN THIS BOOK because I am convinced that there is a way to end most evil.* And ending evil is the most important task humans can ever undertake.  \nThe only proven way to achieve this on any large scale is the American value system. These values are proclaimed on every American coin:“Liberty,” “In God We Trust,”“E Pluribus Unum.” Each one is explained at length, and each one is adaptable to just about any society in the world.  \nI have written this book with a number of audiences in mind:  \nIt is written first for Americans who already affirm American values. To those who would argue that this is an unnecessary exercise in “preaching to the choir,” I would say that, unfortunately, this is not the case. Most of the choir have forgotten the melody. Few Americans can articulate what is distinctive about American values, or even what they are.  \nThere is, in fact, a thirst among Americans for rediscovering andreaffirming American values. I know this from my daily radio show, and I know this from a personal experience. A few years ago, at a public forum atthe University of Denver, I was asked by the moderator, former Colorado senator Bill Armstrong, what I thought the greatest problem confronting America was. I answered that it was that the last two generations of Americans have not communicated what it means to be American to their children. Someone in the audience videotaped my response and put it on YouTube, where millions of people have seen it. A lot of Americans realize we have forgotten what we stand for.  \nThe second audience consists of those—Americans and all others—who either do not believe that the American value system is as described, or that it is the best ever devised, or that there is even such a thing as a specifically American value system. I welcome these readers. I have in many ways designed this book for them.  \nThe third audience is non-Americans. As this book goes to press, it is finally becoming obvious that the European attempt to create a welfare state  \nalternative to the American model has failed. Begun after World War II, the secular welfare state offered Europeans and sympathetic non-Europeans an alternative to American religiosity and to what the welfare state’s supporters depict as cutthroat, heartless American free market capitalism. But some fifty to sixty years later, it is clear that this state is economically—and, as Ishow in the book, morally—unsustainable. Of the two democratic models—the European and the American—only the American one works and can endure. And the beauty of it as far as non-Americans are concerned is that it does not demand that any group give up its national or religious culture (except insofar as the culture holds values in conflict with the American value system) . 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