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Methuselah's Children

by Robert A. Heinlein · 1958

What it's about

The book is set in a United States where liberty and justice for all has finally been achieved.

Its society rests on a rule that no one may seize or harm another person's property or privacy.

The description suggests that only the promise of immortality could make these proud Americans give up their hard-won liberties.

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The publisher's description

Rear Cover Synopsis

"After the fall of the American Ayatollahs as foretold in

'Stranger in a Strange Land' and chronicled in 'Revolt in 2100',

the United States of America at last fulfills the promise inherent

in its first Revolution; for the first time in human history there

is a nation with Liberty and Justice for all.

No one may seize or harm the person or property of another,

or invade his privacy, or force him to do his bidding. Americans

are fiercely proud of their re-won liberties and the blood it cost

them; NOTHING could make them foreswear those truths they hold

self-evident. Nothing except the promise of immortality..."

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