The american citizen handbook

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In today's politically correct world, which sometimes views America as a tragedy rather than a triumph and American history as a sad story of race, class and gender oppression, rather than the march of progress toward freedom and opportunity, it is a piece of subversive literature. And like much subversive literature it has been suppressed by those who find it heretical to their beliefs, in this case the original publishers of the book, the National Education Association.

Here is how Jay Nordlinger of National Review describes the interest in the book in the s and the National Education Association's response:. Michael Farris, the home-schooling leader in Virginia, discovered it in the mid s. Then the education secretary, William Bennett, used it in a speech.

He challenged the NEA to reissue the book, or, if it would not, to permit others to do so. The association responded flummoxed and embarrassed. One spokesman explained, "The world has changed a lot" ah, and so has the NEA.

Another sniffed, "We've got lots of other books if [Bennett] wants to pay for them. Some years later, Lamar Alexander, running for president, mentioned the Handbook as a "virtual user's guide to America. Had he been asked to burn them? That would be too good to be true-and it was. The man had buried them. The American Citizens Handbook was first published in to coincide with National Citizenship Day and went through six editions ending in As the excerpt above shows, the book has been rediscovered by conservative commentators who relish the irony that it was edited and published by the National Education Association, now a leftist organization whose leadership no longer believes in much of the creed proclaimed in the American Citizens Handbook.

Many things in this book probably offended the militants of the NEA leadership, but the positive references to the role of religion in public education and government, which is extolled both by the book's editor Joy Elmer Morgan and in numerous articles, was probably the nail in the coffin. His teachings, gradually permeating the minds and hearts of the people of the western world, building up their self respect, that led to a demand for larger liberty and justice.

Let us never forget that our democratic institutions have their foundation in the principles of life that were set forth by the great Teacher. The edition waters down that portion of Morgan's essay and changes its emphasis to this:. Democracy can find its fullest expression in the roots of religion which has ever emphasized the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.

For democracy to reach its highest fruition, our society must include that larger liberty and justice preached so eloquently by the Hebrew Prophets and by Jesus. The NEA leadership introduced many other changes of emphasis to tone down the unadulterated Americanism of the prior editions of the Handbook and its faith in the Constitution and other foundation documents of American democracy and heritage.

The one this is most noticeable is on the back dust jacket, which gives a quote from Thomas Jefferson stating the need to periodically change the laws and Constitution, which ends with this sentence:.

And that is probably what the leaders of the NEA thought of the drafters of the Constitution and of all of American history, it was the product of "barbarous ancestors" and should no longer be celebrated as a source of pride and inspiration. And so it was that the publication of the American Citizens Handbook came to an end, and if the stories above are to be believed, the NEA buried their remaining copies lest the words of celebration and pride continue to go forth.