No apology : the case for American greatness

340 Pages·2010·1.9 MB·English

by  Romney

No
Apology
ALSO BY MITT ROMNEY
Turnaround:
Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games
No
Apology
THE CASE FOR
AMERICAN GREATNESS
Mitt Romney

ST. MARTIN’S PRESS
NEW YORK
The extract on pages 177–78 were originally published in The New Yorker. The charts
that appear on pages 140, 141, 207, 209, and 238 are reprinted with permission.

NO APOLOGY. Copyright 2010 by Mitt Romney. All rights reserved. Printed in the
United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press,
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Design by Kathryn Parise

ISBN 978-0-312-60980-1

First Edition: March 2010

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To Allie, Joe, Thomas, Chloe, Nick, Mia,
Nate, Grace, Wyatt, Owen, Nash, Soleil, Parker, Miles,
and all of Ann’s and my grandchildren yet unborn
We must be ready to dare all for our country.
For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
—DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
Contents

Introduction
1. The Pursuit of the Difficult
2. Why Nations Decline
3. The Pursuit of Power
4. Pathways of American Power
5. A Free and Productive Economy
6. The Worst Generation?
7. Healing Health Care
8. An American Education
9. Running Low
10. The Culture of Citizenship
11. America the Beautiful
Epilogue
Acknowledgments