{"product_id":"2940169549935","title":"Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World","description":"\u003cp\u003eBritish politician Daniel Hannan¿s \u003ci\u003eInventing Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of the principles that have made America great and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms¿individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government¿are the legacy of a very specific tradition that was born in England and was inherited by Americans, along with other former British colonies. By the tenth century, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to inherited common-law rights. The story of liberty is the story of how that model triumphed: How it was enshrined in a series of landmark victories¿the Magna Carta, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the US Constitution¿and how it came to defeat every international rival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday we see those ideas abandoned and scorned in the places where they once went unchallenged. \u003ci\u003eInventing Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism, and it is offered at a time that may turn out to be the end of the age of political freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100480258288,"sku":"2940169549935","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169549935_p0.jpg?v=1763686153","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169549935","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}