Nation of Victims
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Woke Inc. and a 2024 presidential candidate makes the case that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically and reject victimhood culture.
Hardship is now equated with victimhood. Outward displays of vulnerability in defeat are celebrated over winning unabashedly. The pursuit of excellence and exceptionalism are at the heart of American identity, and the disappearance of these ideals in our country leaves a deep moral and cultural vacuum in its wake.
But the solution isn’t to simply complain about it. It’s to revive a new cultural movement in America that puts excellence first again.
New York Times bestselling author Vivek Ramaswamy makes the case from firsthand experience that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically—no matter your skin color or where your parents came from.
Leaders have called Ramaswamy “the most compelling conservative voice in the country” and “one of the towering intellects in America,” and this book reveals why: he spares neither left nor right in this scathing indictment of the victimhood culture at the heart of America’s national decline.
Following the success of his instant bestseller Woke Inc., Ramaswamy explains in his new book that we’re a nation of victims now. It’s one of the few things we still have left in common—across black victims, white victims, liberal victims, and conservative victims. Victims of each other, and ultimately, of ourselves.
This fearless, provocative book is for readers who dare to look in the mirror and question their most sacred assumptions about who we are and how we got here. Intricately tracing history from the fall of Rome to the rise of America, weaving Western philosophy with Eastern theology in ways that moved Jefferson and Adams centuries ago, this book describes the rise and the fall of the American experiment itself—and hopefully its reincarnation.
Customer Reviews
A must read
Brilliant historical analysis and argumentation.
Squishy
At times this book is high economics and low theological theory. It’s admirable what the author was trying to do here by combining his knowledge of economics with philosophy, but failed to be consistent in either. The concept of excellence is a hard (and some impossible) concept to will into existence. This book attempted to address the nature versus nurture debate on excellence, and wasn’t quite assured of its conclusions on which side of that debate it preferred. I really appreciate the infusion of Hinduism as a metaphysical concept for equality and appreciated the eye-opening look into the incentive structures within inside of business that allow for a continuation of “victim“ policies.