Ptolemy's Amazon Review of Alex Kuguschev's "Resilient America"

Optimism for America,

May 10, 2009

By	Themistocles G. Michos "Themis" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

I concur fully with the views of Reviewers LaCosse and Coleman. This is an important read for these times of uncertainty, often over-exuberant and wishful thinking optimism and aloof or undiscriminating pessimism. The values of the American nation are superbly and realistically endorsed. The author's knowledge of history and earlier critical writing on American culture is impressive. I came away thinking "I needed that," as any serious reader will. The author does not go deeply into the murkier areas of economic analysis or how the past might or might not be constitutive of the future given the enormous growth in American and world population and the new communications environment. Notwithtanding these minor objections, all in all, five stars for this splendid and timely writing.