The Courage to Be Free

xvi, 286 pp. "Charlton Heston is widely regarded as one of the most politically influential Americans never elected to public office. Since he's not a professional politician, he can't be unseated from the debate. But like a politician, he gets the airtime and ink and coverage personal freedoms depend on. ...he tells the hard truths of an America vanishing into the mist of memory--and how we must muster the individual courage to bring her back. His challenge his based on a simple truth: Americans are born with more freedom than any other people in history. To keep it, we must be more courageous than any other people in history."