Will America Fail?: The Case for Hope

Will America fail?

That question has surged to the forefront of our nation’s escalating culture war. The fear of “American decline” has emerged as the recurring hot topic on primetime cable news programs and daytime talk radio shows. Public opinion polls routinely report that once-devoutly hopeful Americans are now more pessimistic than optimistic about our country’s future. Gradually, the fear of American decline has begun to reshape our political DNA.

While authors on both ends of the political spectrum have addressed the question of American decline with honesty and depth, even the most thorough and engaging of these works tend to be too academic, too impersonal or too narrowly focused on a single Presidency. Their Baby Boom or Gen-X authors, while often credentialed, hail from conventional political backgrounds with predictable cultural outlooks, rooted in the experiences of Watergate, Vietnam or the Reagan Revolution.

Written by Ryan Houck, the narrator, producer and writer of If I Wanted America to Fail―a groundbreaking viral video that quickly earned millions of hits on YouTube―Will America Fail? is a genuinely understandable and relatable book on America’s long-term political future from a fresh, persuasive young source.

In the space of only a few days, millions of Americans watched If I Wanted America to Fail.