A Liberal Mandate: Reflections on our Founding Vision and Rants on how we have Failed to Achieve it
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by Keith D. Martin
Price: $10.95
Book Website: http://liberalmandate.com
144 Pages, Paperback, 5 x 8
ISBN-10: 0-578-04365-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-578-04365-4
This nation only recently emerged from enduring a near ruinous full-scale conservative assault on America's founding vision. With President Obama we have an opportunity to once again return to our roots, but we must seize this occasion, or it may be lost for decades to come.
A LIBERAL MANDATE argues that the vision handed down to us by our founding fathers through the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution mandates a liberal approach to governance. In the first two sentences of the Declaration along with the Preamble, the framers eloquently and profoundly describe what we could and should become.
"Without a vision the people perish." No country in history has had a more inspiring vision, but we have been ignoring it, and the American Dream has turned into a nightmare for far too many of us. A LIBERAL MANDATE is also personal, born out of sadness and anger, hope and despair, pride and embarrassment.
"In order to form a more perfect Union." We will never fully realize the vision set out for us, but each generation has a moral obligation to "more"closely approximate it. This polemic, diatribe, rant is an attempt to make a contribution to that obligation.
About The Author
Along with thousands of other young idealists, Keith Martin decided to enter public service following the election of John F. Kennedy. Dr. Martin's experience of spending a year in West Berlin after graduating from college (yes, he was in the crowd that day when President Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner"speech), convinced him to enter the Foreign Service.
His rather eclectic career since then has included domestic government service; the ministry, with a stint on Capitol Hill attempting to speak truth to power; and education, including writing and teaching graduate courses on political and social ethics.
In addition, he served as a full-time paid staffer on the McGovern Presidential campaign and has been a volunteer a number of times since then, most recently for President Obama. If there is a common thread that ties all of this together, it is the sense of purpose, mission, and commitment that marked the 60s.
Dr. Martin has a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard, a Ph.D. in international relations, and a Master of Divinity degree. He has lived in Washington, DC for over 40 years and considers politics to be life's greatest spectator sport.
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