The presidential election of 2008 ushered in a period of dramatic transformation. Public dissatisfaction expressed itself as a desire to reclaim liberty. This book, based on a series of presentations at the Hudson Institute-Family Security Matters Conference, attempts to capture this fervent political spirit.

Many Americans today realize that their own government is steadily becoming the greatest danger and threat to their rights, liberties, and future prosperity. In their attempt to right the errant ways of American government, millions of Americans have looked to the Constitution for answers, and yet “what is Constitutional” continues to elude those that we the people elect to political office. In Recovering American Liberty, the authors note the importance of the Constitution, but present an argument that contemporary Americans have lost sight of the ethical principles that the Constitution was conceived and written in, and ratified only in the light of – those being the self-evident truth principles laid out in the Declaration of Independence. Recovering American Liberty explores the Declaration of Independence and each of those self-evident truths. The authors reason that without Americans first becoming a people who once again embrace these principles in the Declaration, then all their efforts to Make America Great Again, will be for not. For, it is only because Americans once honored these principles in their personal lives, that America as a nation, became Great in the first place.

Blueprint for a "Liberty-Based Society." The present movement toward an all-powerful government is approaching exhaustion. Recognizing that special interests-both liberal and conservative-participating in the spoils of the system have failed to defend Americans' personal freedoms, James Ronald Kennedy has issued a call to action. By following these steps, modern Americans can establish a "Liberty-Based Society" and recapture a Jacksonian democracy in which everyone enjoys the rights and prosperity envisioned by our forefathers. Mr. Kennedy presents workable solutions, supported by our original Constitution, to combat runaway taxation, federal interference, welfare abuse, and other current societal ills. He offers historical evidence to support his conviction that all Americans will benefit, grow, and prosper in an audacious new society that encourages personal accountability, self-determinism, and individual ambition.

America Beyond Capitalism is a book whose time has come. Gar Alperovitz's expert diagnosis of the long-term structural crisis of the American economic and political system is accompanied by detailed, practical answers to the problems we face as a society. Unlike many books that reserve a few pages of a concluding chapter to offer generalized, tentative solutions, Alperovitz marshals years of research into emerging "new economy" strategies to present a comprehensive picture of practical bottom-up efforts currently underway in thousands of communities across the United States. All democratize wealth and empower communities, not corporations: worker-ownership, cooperatives, community land trusts, social enterprises, along with many supporting municipal, state and longer term federal strategies as well. America Beyond Capitalism is a call to arms, an eminently practical roadmap for laying foundations to change a faltering system that increasingly fails to sustain the great American values of equality, liberty and meaningful democracy.

Americans are losing liberty to the big-government leviathan at an ever accelerating pace. This is due directly to the actions of government elites who discount the true meaning and value of the Constitution and subvert individual liberty in their quest for control. Taking place is an economic and socio-political struggle which is of profound importance, as the result will dramatically affect the lives and freedoms of every individual citizen, those living today and those of future generations. Limited government, the foundation of the American system, is becoming a thing of the past and so is individual liberty.This book discusses how the big-government politicians are using gun control, healthcare, climate-change, and other causes to advance their agenda, and to grow government at the expense of liberty. Twenty circumstances of the direct loss of liberty are identified in the book.It is time for Americans to sustain their natural-born right to liberty and reclaim limited government. This book is an assertion for those actions.As an extra, the book concludes with an incisive song written to commemorate the recent midterm elections in which it was clear that the grassroots efforts of the American people stood up to the big-government agenda. A first-verse sample is included here:Well, we'll sing of those elections held in twenty and ten.It was time for we the people to fight for liberty again.The Dems said bigger government is the way we're gonna go,So we had a little party and we said, “hell no!”