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 Extraordinarily vision-expanding book March 17, 2009
Richard D. Burton (Washington, D. C.)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I agree with the other reviewers who said that every American, and every citizen of any nation that wishes to prosper, should read and ponder this book.
How could the 19th Century begin with Americans traveling by horse-drawn carts and sailboats, just as they did in 2000 B.C., communicating by quill and ink, as they did in ancient Egypt, wearing clothes that had to be hand loomed, as in ancient Sumeria, and yet end the 19th century with automobiles, telegraphs, telephones, steam ships, electricity, mechanized factories, and the airplane about to be invented? How could untold freedom and prosperity, advances in the arts, medicine and the sciences come about so rapidly -- a 5,000 year leap?
The incredible story of America's most spectacularly advancing century, that changed the whole world without foreign aid or socialism, is told with eye-opening insight and wisdom.
You are short changing your education and your family's if you don't read this book.
Shows Us What We Are Fighting to Preserve and Protect... April 7, 2009
Rob Northrup (Norcross, GA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ronald Reagan said...
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
This book provides a solid framework of what is exceptional about America and why it must be preserved. American freedom has created the fertile ground which has lifted billions of people from cold, thirsty and hungry to a better place.
Unfortunately if more people don't start to get it, then we may lose much of what makes this all possible. This is a good book to get everyone on your Christmas list...
EXCELLENT REVIEW OF HISTORY April 18, 2009
Sunshine T (Valparaiso Indiana)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Clear and succinct, this book is much needed reading in America these days. I highly recommend it for anyone feeling disillusioned with our present and anxious about America's future. This book is not boring or bland. Every word is so carefully chosen and so important! It makes the hair on your neck stand on end!
Wisdom April 20, 2008
Chris A.
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
There is a type of people in the world today, which has always existed and which will always exist. This type of person honestly seeks wisdom, honestly works, honestly deals with his fellow beings because he knows any type of happiness you get from anything except these things is a false, temporary happiness. This type of person is a person of reason, is person of justice, of integrity. This type of person tries as best as they can to increase their knowledge and tries to figure out the secrets and hidden things of this world and this universe. Those types of secrets and hidden things are only uncovered through a constant quest for knowledge. They realize that the extent to which you are free is the extent to which you know. The most bound person is the most ignorant person because they do not even know of their bond. Every person is bound to some extent. To the extent they lack knowledge of how the world works and how the universe works.
This book is of course called The Five Thousand Year Leap for a reason. The reason being is that in the last two centuries this world has made more progress in every dimension of life than the last fifty centuries combined. That type of progress is not accidental. This book goes into great detail about the economic, political, philosophical, natural, and even religious ideas about why that is so.
America and the world owes a great debt to the founding fathers and authors of the Constitution of the United States of America.
I can promise you that you will not regret reading this book.
Timeless, Vital for Today! March 24, 2009
Benjamin Devey
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
The American Founders saw the tyranny of abuses to which every form of government had fallen. They envisioned the only form of law that would preserve the freedom of people's rights for future generations. It was government by the people and for the people. They established the Constitution of the United States of America to safeguard individual and state rights from the exact abuses of power that are now rising to overturn our liberties.
The 5000 Year Leap details the Founders' intentions in 28 Great Ideas That Changed the World. The Constitution was a miracle of safeguards that had not existed before in world civil governments. The Founders recognized that inalienable rights are divinely inherent, not granted by men or laws. Only by recognizing the role of laws to recognize men's God-given rights, would the people be protected by the abuses of rulers law.
Skousen details why the Constitution is inspired. As you see how the founding principles of the Constitution are intended as protection for freedom, another pressing urgency becomes apparent: our "representatives" in Washington have lost the vision of liberty, driving our country toward a Godless welfare state, trying to overturn the most fundamental rights of represented taxation, private property, freedom of worship, petition for redress. We live in precarious times when liberals wish to overturn what they suppose to be the outmoded conventions of Constitutional law. There were never times when we needed Constitutional protections more.
Everyone should read The 5000 Year Leap to understand the liberties we take for granted. We'll never miss our freedom more than after we've forfeited our rights to an abusive, tyrannical government.
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