Publisher's Synopsis
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what you can do for yourself. It is both sad and ironic that in a time of steady and fervent patriotism we seem to care so little for our republic. This short booklet, built around the framework of the colonial, Puritan preacher's "Jeremiad" sermon, looks at three essential things: ①What patriotism was, ②what patriotism has become, ③what present-day patriots must do to restore true patriotism. As American patriots, we have a responsibility to pursue and embrace the truth wherever it might lead. In so doing, we must fight our way through the many distortions of patriotism and find that narrow path to what matters most. At the end of the story, we must emerge as lovers of our country, and of the ideas of truth, small government, republicanism (small r). This is what our founders gave to us. But it is indeed a tricky course to get from here to there.
