You're listening to Family Talk, the radio broadcasting division of the James Dobson Family Institute.

I am that James Dobson, and I'm so pleased that you've joined us today.

Well, welcome once again to Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk.

I'm Roger Marsh, the vice president of content and the executive producer here of Dr. James

Dobson's Family Talk programming.

Question for you, what does it really mean to be an American?

And what did the founders believe was necessary to keep the Republic alive?

Well, those are the questions at the heart of today's

edition of Family Talk as we are continuing Dr. Dobson's discussion with New York Times

bestselling author Eric Metaxus about his book called If You Can Keep It, the forgotten

promise of American liberty. Eric Mataxis is the founder and host of Socrates in the city. He also

hosts the Eric Mataxis show and is the author of six New York Times bestsellers,

including his acclaimed biography on Dietrich Bonhofer.

On the last edition of Family Talk, Eric Mataxis introduced us to the forgotten foundations of American Liberty,

and today he and Dr. Dobson will go a bit deeper,

exploring how faith, virtue, and self-government are inseparable and what it will take

to reclaim what we've lost. That's coming up on today's edition of Dr. James Dobson's

Family Talk. Well, Eric, I can't wait to get started talking about your book again.

This is an outstanding text.

I do hope that our listeners will go out and get a copy of it and share it with your children.

Tell me if teenagers and junior hires can understand

what you've written there. Well, the original title for this book was Letters to a Young

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