The American Boomerang: How the World's Greatest 'Turnaround' Nation Will Do It Again

209 Pages·2014·0.57 MB·English

by  Nick Adams

PRAISE FOR THE AMERICAN BOOMERANG
It’s the locker room at half time and the home team is listless,
confused, and playing lousy. But Nick Adams has a powerful pep
talk for Team USA that is just the kind of bracing, snap-out-of-it,
kick-in-the-pants that a great nation needs to get back in the game
to win. The American Boomerang is more than a sorely needed
love letter from Down Under – it’s a timely, wise, and heartfelt
plea to America to embrace its inherent exceptionalism.
– Jack Fowler, publisher of National Review
The American Boomerang should be compulsory reading for
every American. It is a call to action, and an outside voice
reminding us of our promise in the world. It reasserts the American
virtues we have recently begun to abandon, like faith and freedom.
Adams’ conservative insight is invaluable and irresistible.
– Ben Shapiro, Editor-at-Large, Breitbart.com
Foreigners, starting with Alexis de Tocqueville, have shown a
unique understanding of the United States and what it means to
be an American. Now Nick Adams, a young Australian, writes in
this tradition, of old-fashioned American patriotism and courage
– which aren’t actually old-fashioned at all.
– Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
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American
THE

boomerang
HOW THE WORLD'S GREATEST
'TURNAROUND' NATION WILL DO IT AGAIN
Adams
NICK
FOREWORD BY LT. COL. ALLEN WEST
THE AMERICAN BOOMERANG
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For my mom and dad, who have always supported me.
I love you so very much.
CONTENTS
Foreword ix
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Author’s Note xiii
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Introduction xv
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CHAPTER 1: The Cowboy Spirit ................................................1
CHAPTER 2: Old Glory ..........................................................11
CHAPTER 3: Faith ................................................................21
CHAPTER 4: God’s Troops .....................................................38
CHAPTER 5: The Value of Liberty ............................................56
CHAPTER 6: Competitive Culture ............................................64
CHAPTER 7: The Land of the Self-Made Man .............................83
CHAPTER 8: Constitutionally Limited Government ......................92
CHAPTER 9: Tradition .........................................................102
CHAPTER 10: Armed ..........................................................114
CHAPTER 11: Imperiled Future .............................................122
CHAPTER 12: An Almost Treasonous Culture War ....................127
CHAPTER 13: Radical Islam ..................................................141
CHAPTER 14: The Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
CHAPTER 15: The Nature of the American Boomerang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
CHAPTER 16: A New Chapter: How America Comes Back . . . . . . . . . . 161
Acknowledgments 172
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About the Author 174
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Notes 175
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Index 179
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The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many
circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but uni-
versal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind
are affected, and in the event of which, their affections are interested.
– Thomas Paine, 1776
FOREWORD
It was George Santayana who once quipped, “those
who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
That quote is normally used to refer to the recurrence
of negative lessons that history teaches. However, this
foreword is dedicated to a positive lesson that history
is teaching America.
In 1831 a young Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, was
sent to America by the French government to study the Amer-
ican prison system. What resulted were two volumes of works
released in 1835 and 1840 entitled, Democracy in America. The
original mandate for which Tocqueville was dispatched did not
garner his attention. What did attract this young man was the
manner of the American society and its burgeoning sense of
equality, not so much of outcomes but of opportunity.
Tocqueville stated, “Americans are so enamored of equality,
they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
It was that sense of individual freedom that was most inter-
esting to him – and perplexing.
This young man found the good in America in the way
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