Masters of the dream

by Alan L. Keyes

Written by a nationally known, respected commentator, Masters of the Dream is an insightful and passionate call for self-empowerment as well as a controversial look at black American experience and power. Insisting on the existence and importance of strong, positive identity, Alan L. Keyes urgently grapples with the moral identity crisis of the nation's cities. He evaluates the problems of crime, violence, and other self-destructive behavior as a result of a deterioration of the values that contributed to earlier black survival and the success of the civil rights movement and believes that adopting an ideology of victimization is disastrous. Observing that today's black leadership has particularly ignored the central importance of the black church and religious faith as the basis for self-government and moral discipline, he sees this result: programs that have weakened the fabric of the community, leading to an unprecedented degree of family disintegration, black-on-black violence, and