Date: Friday, June 25, 2010
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 am
Location:
University Club of Grand Rapids
111 Lyon St. NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
7:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Presentation by Arthur Brooks
8:30 a.m. Question & Answer
9:00 a.m. Adjournment & Book Signing
Register: Call Kimberly Brink at 616.454.3080 or email her at [email protected] to register
$12 Adults, $8 Students
Breakfast Included
Please contact Kimberly Brink at 616.454.3080 or [email protected]. with any questions.
Copies of Dr. Brooks’ books will be available for purchase at the breakfast.
Parking is available in the Fifth Third Center Parking Garage. Please bring your tickets to the University Club for validation and to receive the discounted rate of $1.25 per half hour.
About The Battle
America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays--rather it is a war against the creeping changes which threaten our culture of free enterprise.
Free enterprise embodies the values that define us as a nation: individual liberty, equal opportunity, entrepreneurship and self-reliance. It is the source of our past success, and the promise of a better future. But the recent economic crisis has distorted our values, and given the small minority who oppose free enterprise a pretext for sweeping European-style social democratic change.
Many Americans have forgotten the evils of twentieth-century socialism and the predations of the America’s own Great Society welfare state programs. But as Dr. Brooks reveals in The Battle, the forces for socialism are back with a vengeance. They have the full arsenal of government, money and power, and they are using our economic insecurity to introduce breathtaking increases in the reach of the state. They are playing for keeps, and if they win, America will be changed forever--not just economically, but culturally.
The Battle offers a plan of action for the defense of free enterprise. It is at once a call to action and a crucial redefinition of the political and moral gulf that divides us politically in America today. The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
Dr. Arthur C. Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute. Until January 1, 2009, he was the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Dr. Brooks’ research and writing have investigated the connections between culture, politics, and economic life in America. In the past ten years, he has published five dozen academic articles, scores of magazine and newspaper essays, and seven books on subjects ranging from the economics of the arts to philanthropy to military operations research. Dr. Brooks earned his Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the Rand Graduate School in 1998 and also holds an MA and BA in economics.
