The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
For the Survival of Liberty: Great Presidential Decisions focuses on Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Lincoln, Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt as critical builders of American liberty. Elton Klibanoff shows how the life experience, character, and vision of these men resulted in six decisions that have been vital to liberty, both at home and abroad. These decisions established a strong federal government, dedicated to the general welfare and to equal opportunity. They also created an internationalist foreign policy that has been essential to liberty's survival.
Finalist for the 2012 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award