America's Promise lays out better than any book I have seen the essence of the contemporary problem of American community, beginning with the family and ending with the welfare state, and proposes some sensible and fair initiatives to reduce our social isolation .

Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last Man

This is the most comprehensive book on the civic society to date. Nobody is clearer on this important issue than Eberly and few are his peers.

Amitai Etzioni, professor, George Washington University; founder of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Eberly demonstrates decisively that what is at stake in the outcome of the civil society debate is not only our collective self-understanding but, indeed, our well-being as citizens.

Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Laura Spelman Rockeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; author of Just War Against Terror

No one who cares about the future of America's civil institutions, no one who has a head and a heart for the plight of our most truly needy fellow citizens and young people, can afford to miss Don Eberly's masterful new book, America's Promise.....

John DiIulio, Princeton University

America's Promise is jam-packed with generosity and wisdom-a valuable piece of work on what civil society is, why it matters and what we can do to renew our culture.

David Blankenhorn, president, Institute for American Values

If you want to know what civil society means, and why the concept is so important, by all means read this book. Wise, lucid and extremely informative, it is an indispensable guide to the civil society debate.

David Popenoe, Rutgers University