America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gaysrather it is a war against the creeping changes to our entrepreneurial culture, the true bedrock of who we are as a people. The new culture war is a battle between free enterprise and social democracy. Many Americans have forgotten the evils of socialism and the predations of the American Great Society’s welfare state programs. But, as American Enterprise Institute’s president Arthur C. Brooks reveals in The Battle , the forces for social democracy have returned with a vengeance, expanding the power of the state to a breathtaking degree. The Battle offers a plan of action for the defense of free enterprise; it is at once a call to arms and a crucial redefinition of the political and moral gulf that divides Right and Left in America today. The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

阿瑟•C布鲁克斯，著名经济学家，公共政策专家，现任美国企业研究所主席。曾是一名法国号乐手，2009年之前，他是雪城大学路易.A.班托的商业与政府政策教授。已出版了多部著作，包括《谁会真正在乎》、《国民幸福总值》及《社会企业家》等。