Larry Alex Taunton - Around the World in (More Than) 80 Days: Discovering What Makes America Great and Why We Must Fight to Save It

Advance Praise for
Around the World In (More Than) 80 Days by Larry Alex Taunton

Americathe freest, most tolerant and inclusive nation on earthis under siege by radicals who make no effort to conceal their determination to destroy it. Larry Alex Taunton has provided patriotic Americans with a powerful weapon to defeat our enemies. Buy this book to arm yourself for the defense of your freedoms. Buy a second copy for a friend.

David Horowitz, author of
Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America

To truly understand how and why America is exceptional you could travel to country after country and see for yourself. You might even want to write a brilliant book about it! But lucky for you my friend, Larry Taunton has done all the traveling for youthink of the money youve saved!and has written that brilliant book, making the case so clear that you owe it to yourself to grab a copy and read it! Please do!

Eric Metaxas, host of The Eric Metaxas Show ;
author of Bonhoeffer and If You Can Keep It

The problem with being an American is that familiarity too often breeds contempt because we see our faults up close and take our virtues and blessings for granted. Larry Alex Taunton has provided a cure by lifting us up out of America, and taking us on a long and insightful tour of the world to see how other places actually stack up. Take the tour with him, and gain some very much needed perspective. You may findas he didtheres no place like home.

Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D., author of
10 Books That Screwed Up the World

Larry Tauntonhistorian, columnist, and a man of abiding Christian faithtraveled (often at great risk to himself) to twenty-six nations in order to hold a mirror up to the United States of America and ask: Is America Good and is America Great? Mark Twain did much the same more than a century ago. Twains and Tauntons conclusions are identical: There is no placeliterally No Placelike home. Around the World in (More Than) 80 Days is fabulous. Its going on my shelf next to The Innocents Abroad .

Paul Reid, co-author with William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

Praise for Larry Alex Taunton 's
Previous Books

A literary gem.

FrontPage Magazine

Tauntons smooth and accessible prose brings to life what seems to have been a dear and lively friendship between two thinkers at odds politically and religiously, but not intellectually.

Publishers Weekly

The books overall genius is that its a story. An immensely compelling, page-turning, cannot-put-down kind of story. With its unique combination of superb storytelling, intellect, and passion, The Faith of Christopher Hitchens achievesand deservesthe rare status of instant classic.

The Gospel Coalition

Beautifully written. Everyone should read this book.

Chris Matthews, Hardball

But now I do know what I think of this book, and I am concerned that I might exhaust my supply of superlatives. This book is simply outstanding. There, my first superlative. I still have some superlatives left, so I will simply conclude by saying that I wish more Christian books were like this one. Top drawer.

Christianity Today

The Faith of Christopher Hitchens is a fascinating exploration and explanation of a very important figure. It describes and models the kind of friendship that Christians can and should have even with the most formidable opponents of their faith. It is a story worth telling and one that Taunton tells with great skill.

Tim Challies

The social elites want evangelicals to be as dumb as they suspect they are. But when a person comes along who proves that tale false, which Taunton clearly does in his exemplary book, they simply dont know what to do.

The Federalist

What Taunton accomplishes here is marvelous, equally for what it is not as much as what it is. The Faith of Christopher Hitchens is that most difficult, and most valuable, of memoirs: A record of virtue and of vice, of faith and faithlessness. Perhaps that is Tauntons greatest achievement: He makes us want, zealously, for Christopher Hitchens to believe.

Mere Orthodoxy

If atheist activists want to be taken seriously, they must be willing to engage the facts. The fact is that Mr. Taunton has simply said that Hitchens late in life was not certain of his atheism. Unable to tolerate this crack in the atheist facade, Mr. Tauntons critics reacted hysterically.

Wall Street Journal

Taunton enjoys the cerebral process and has a quick, ironic wit.

Weld Magazine

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Around the World in (More Than) 80 Days:

Discovering What Makes America Great and Why We Must Fight to Save It

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To Stewart ~

Fellow traveler,

Adventurer,

Lover of life,

And possessor of a heart of gold.

Your friendship has never wavered.

Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal. America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist I propose to take our countrymens claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.

Ta-Nehisi Coates in his New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me

In 32 years of living in this country, the United States has never once failed me. Becoming an American citizen was the greatest privilege of my life. Your book reads like an American horror story because you have damned to hell the noblest and most endearing trait of those who come to this country and who love it: the Dream. You declare: This is the foundation of the Dreamits adherents must not just believe in it but believe that it is just, believe that their possession of the Dream is the natural result of grit, honor, and good works. Well, it is. And we, the Dreamers and achievers who continue to make this country the exceptional wonder that it is, will never capitulate to your renunciation. The world we desired has been won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is ours. And it should be yours, and your sons.

Jason D. Hill, professor of philosophy at DePaul University, who immigrated to the United States from Jamaica at age twenty, in An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Dream is Real, Commentary Magazine