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Renewing the Foundations |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Glenn C. Loury |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 1,460 Words, 9,010 Characters |
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MASTERS OF THE DREAM
The Strength and Betrayal of Black America
Alan L. Keyes
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1995
207 pp., $23.00
Alan Keyes recently declared his intention to seek the 1996 Republican presidential nomination. His passionate announcement speech took the need for moral restoration in America as its central theme. While he is not the only Republican candidate to give voice to such cultural concerns, no other candidate will articulate them more clearly, or with greater conviction. I can also say with confidence that no other candidate will publish a book in this political season as compelling and powerful as Masters of the Dream.
With little money and less name recognition, facing off against some of the most effective politicians of this generation, Keyes must be seen as a long shot to secure his party's nomination. Nevertheless, his candida...
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...lly dissident line of departure from the orthodoxy of the day is to speak what, for many blacks, is a truth inherited from our forebears; a truth we know as a result of our awareness of our own history; a truth reflected in the great legacy of a Christian people who survived the holocaust of slavery and can, if we would return to our spiritual roots, survive this contemporary trial as well. vbcrlf
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