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  • CONSERVATIVE HEROES
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    CONSERVATIVE HEROES
    GARLAND S TUCKER
    Conservatism in America, as one early twentieth-century politician said, is “as old as the Republic itself.” But what are its foundational principles, and how did they form the modern conservative movement? Author Garland S. Tucker III tells the story in this lively look at fourteen champions of conservative thought—some well known, others hardly remembered at all. Taking reade...

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  • ATHENS, ROME, AND ENGLAND
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    ATHENS, ROME, AND ENGLAND
    MATTHEW A PAULEY
    Uncovering the roots of the U.S. Constitution The U.S. Constitution influences nearly every aspect of our lives. But for all the fierce disputes about what the Constitution means, the historical foundations of America's legal and political institutions pass almost unnoticed today.   This is a glaring oversight, one that clouds our understanding of the Constitution and American ...

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  • THE DEVIL KNOWS LATIN
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    THE DEVIL KNOWS LATIN
    E. CHRISTIAN KOPFF
    The Devil Knows Latin is a provocative and illuminating examination of contemporary American culture. Its range is broad and fascinating. Whether discussing the importance of Greek and Latin syntax to our society, examining current trends in literary theory, education, and politics, or applying a classical perspective to contemporary films, Christian Kopff (Professor of Classic...

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  • BONFIRE OF THE HUMANITIES
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    BONFIRE OF THE HUMANITIES
    BRUCE S. THORNTON / VICTOR DAVIS HANSON / JOHN HEATH
    With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of  Who Killed Homer? and  Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scho...

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  • AMERICAN CONSERVATISM
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    AMERICAN CONSERVATISM
    BRUCE FROHNEN / JEREMY BEER / NELSON O. JEFFREY
    "A must-own title." — National Review Online American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference volume to cover what is surely the most influential political and intellectual movement of the past half century. More than fifteen years in the making—and more than half a million words in length—this informative and entertaining encyclopedia contains substa...

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  • DYNAMICS OF WORLD HISTORY
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    DYNAMICS OF WORLD HISTORY
    CHRISTOPHER DAWSON
    In scope and in vision Christopher Dawson's historiography ranks with the work of men like Spengler, Northrop, and Toynbee. Several major themes run through Dawson's work, but perhaps his most unique contribution was his insistence on the importance of religion in shaping and sustaining civilizations. Religion, Dawson believed, is the great creative force in any culture, and th...

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  • GROWING UP GUGGENHEIM
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    GROWING UP GUGGENHEIM
    PETER LAWSON-JOHNSTON
    In  Growing Up Guggenheim, Peter Lawson-Johnston—a Guggenheim himself, and the board president who oversaw the transformation of the renowned museum from a local New York institution to a global art venture—shares a personal memoir that includes intimate portraits of the five people principally responsible for the entire Guggenheim art legacy. In addition to first-hand biograph...

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  • JOHN DEWEY AND THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN EDUCATION
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    JOHN DEWEY AND THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN EDUCATION
    HENRY EDMONDSON
    The influence of John Dewey's undeniably pervasive ideas on the course of American education during the last half-century has been celebrated in some quarters and decried in others. But Dewey's writings themselves have not often been analyzed in a sustained way. In  John Dewey and the Decline of American Education, Hank Edmondson takes up that task. He begins with an account of...

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  • ROOTS OF FREEDOM
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    ROOTS OF FREEDOM
    JOHN W. DANFORD
    Roots of Freedom is a primer on the thinkers and ideas that, over many centuries, have laid the foundations of free societies. Concepts such as the rule of law, independent judiciary, limited government, free markets, and individual autonomy are traced in the writings of (among others) Luther, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, the American founders, Ale...

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  • THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MIND
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    THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MIND
    JEFFREY HART
    National Review has been the leading conservative national magazine since it was founded in 1955, and in that capacity it has played a decisive role in shaping the conservative movement in the United States. In  The Making of the American Conservative Mind, Jeffrey Hart provides an authoritative and high-spirited history of how the magazine has come to define and defend conserv...

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  • WEALTH, POVERTY, AND HUMAN DESTINY
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    WEALTH, POVERTY, AND HUMAN DESTINY
    DOUG BANDOW / DAVID SCHINDLER
    The rapid spread of the liberal market order across the globe poses a host of new and complex questions for religious believers—indeed, for anyone concerned with the intersection of ethics and economics. Is the market economy, particularly as it affects the poor, fundamentally compatible with Christian moral and social teaching? Or is it in substantial tension with that traditi...

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  • TAKEOVER
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    TAKEOVER
    DONALD CRITCHLOW / W.J. RORABAUGH
    "How did liberals get to be the way they are today?" That's the question many Americans are asking as they witness the efforts of the most left-wing president in American history. At last, historians Donald T. Critchlow and W. J. Rorabaugh supply the answer.   As the authors show, it is a mistake to see the Obama administration's agenda as a single man's vision. Equally flawed,...

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  • THE TYRANNY OF LIBERALISM
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    THE TYRANNY OF LIBERALISM
    JAMES KALB
    When it comes to liberalism, the usual story in postwar America is one of decline, accompanied by the subplot of conservatism's ascendance. But take a longer view—look beyond and below politics—and it is the unchallenged triumph of liberalism and its philosophical assumptions that ought to command our attention. The triumph of liberalism means the tyranny of liberalism, explain...

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  • THE HUMANE VISION OF WENDELL BERRY
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    THE HUMANE VISION OF WENDELL BERRY
    MARK MITCHELL / NATHAN SCHLUETER
      A striking contribution to the conversation that is conservatism Wendell Berry—poet, novelist, essayist, critic, farmer—has won the admiration of Americans from all walks of life and from across the political spectrum. His writings treat an extraordinary range of subjects, including politics, economics, ecology, farming, work, marriage, religion, and education. But as this en...

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  • RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY
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    RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY
    CRAIG SHIRLEY
    "A first-rate work of insider his­tory . . . A monumental accomplishment." — National Review   The election that changed everything: Craig Shirley's masterful account of the 1980 presidential campaign reveals how a race judged "too close to call" as late as Election Day became a Reagan landslide—and altered the course of history.   To write  Rendezvous with Destiny , Shirley ga...

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  • HISTORY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
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    HISTORY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
    JOHN LUKACS
    In a career spanning more than sixty-five years, John Lukacs has established himself as one of our most accomplished historians. Now, in the stimulating book  History and the Human Condition , Lukacs offers his profound reflections on the very nature of history, the role of the historian, the limits of knowledge, and more. Guiding us on a quest for knowledge, Lukacs ranges far ...

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  • AMERICA'S WAY BACK
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    AMERICA'S WAY BACK
    DONALD DEVINE
    "The solution for the modern GOP . . . Intellectual ammunition for the modern conservative movement." —SENATOR RAND PAUL How can America recover from economic stagnation, moral exhaustion, and looming bankruptcy? Donald J. Devine shows the way. Devine, a longtime adviser to Ronald Reagan, lays out a powerful case for the philosophical synthesis of freedom and tradition that Rea...

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  • A HUMANE ECONOMY
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    A HUMANE ECONOMY
    WILHELM RÖPKE
    " A Humane Economy is like a seminar on integral freedom conducted by a professor of uncommon brilliance." — Wall Street Journal "If any person in our contemporary world is entitled to a hearing it is Wilhelm Röpke." — New York Times A Humane Economy offers one of the most accessible and compelling explanations of how economies operate ever written. The masterwork of the great ...

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  • THE FUTURE OF CONSERVATISM
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    THE FUTURE OF CONSERVATISM
    CHARLES DUNN
    Once on the wings of the American political stage, conservatism now plays a leading role in public life, thanks largely to the dynamic legacy of Ronald Reagan. But despite conservatism's emergence as a powerful political force in the last several decades, misunderstandings abound about its meaning and nature—economically, internationally, philosophically, politically, religious...

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  • AFTER TOCQUEVILLE
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    AFTER TOCQUEVILLE
    CHILTON WILLIAMSON
    The End of Democracy?  The fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Iron Curtain. The Orange Revolution. The Arab Spring. The rush of events in recent decades seems to confirm that Alexis de Tocqueville was right: the future belongs to democracy. But take a closer look. The history of democracy since the 1830s, when Tocqueville wrote  Democracy in America, reveals a far mor...

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  • BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
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    BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
    GREGORY WOLFE
    Culture, Not Politics We live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor Gregory Wolfe, we should seek to enrich the language of civil discourse. And the best way to do th...

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  • LIVING ON FIRE
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    LIVING ON FIRE
    DANIEL KELLY
    "A triumph . . . A moving, beautifully written biography." — National Review From the beginning, L. Brent Bozell seemed destined for great things.   An extraordinary orator, the young man with fiery red hair won a national debate competition in high school and later was elected president of Yale's storied Political Union, where his debating partner was his close friend William ...

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  • IF NOT US, WHO?
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    IF NOT US, WHO?
    DAVID B. FRISK
    If Not Us, Who? is both the story of an architect of the modern conservative movement and a colorful journey through a half century of high-level politics.   Best known as the longtime publisher of  National Review, William Rusher (1923–2011) was more than just a crucial figure in the history of the Right's leading magazine. He was a political intellectual, tactician, and strat...

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  • LIVING CONSTITUTION, DYING FAITH
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    LIVING CONSTITUTION, DYING FAITH
    BRADLEY C. S. WATSON
    A “living” constitution. Runaway courts. Legislating from the bench.   These phrases come up a lot in the national political debate. They raise the ire of many Americans.   But where did the ideas come from? Why do courts play a role so alien to the one the American Founders outlined? And how did unelected judges gain so much power in our democratic republic?   Political scient...

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  • COOPERATION & COERCION
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    COOPERATION & COERCION
    ANTONY DAVIES / JAMES R HARRIGAN
    There are only two ways that humans work together: they cooperate with one another, or they coerce one another.   And once you realize this fundamental fact, it will change how you see the world.   In this myth-busting book, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan display the wisdom and talent for explaining complex topics that have attracted a devoted audience to their weekly podc...

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  • UNBELIEVABLE
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    UNBELIEVABLE
    MICHAEL NEWTON KEAS
    Unbelievable explodes seven of the most popular and pernicious myths about science and religion. Michael Newton Keas, a historian of science, lays out the facts to show how far the conventional wisdom departs from reality. He also shows how these myths have proliferated over the past four centuries and exert so much influence today, infiltrating science textbooks and popular cu...

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  • A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO U.S. HISTORY
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    A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO U.S. HISTORY
    WILFRED M. MCCLAY
    A lively, concise guide to the events and ideas that have shaped America over the centuries. No nation in modern history has had a more powerful sense of its own distinctiveness than the United States. Yet few Americans understand the immensely varied sources of that sense and the fascinating debates that have always swirled around our attempts to define “America” with greater ...

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  • A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY
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    A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF HISTORY
    JOHN LUKACS
    A thoughtful look at the value of learning from the past: “Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form” (Antony Beevor, Toronto Globe & Mail). To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past—to remain ignorant of the deeds and writing of previous generations—is to bind oneself by the passions ...

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  • A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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    A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
    HARVEY C. MANSFIELD
    A primer on the bedrock principles of politics from “Harvard’s most controversial conservative professor” and the author of Democracy in America (Boston magazine). Behind the daily headlines on presidential races and local elections is the theory of the polity—or what the end of our politics should be. Harvard’s Harvey C. Mansfield, one of America’s leading political theorists,...

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  • A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE CORE CURRICULUM
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    A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE CORE CURRICULUM
    MARK C HENRIE
    “This slender volume explains the merits of getting an old-fashioned liberal arts education” (The American Spectator). College students today have tremendous freedom to choose the courses they will take. With such freedom, however, students face a pressing dilemma: How can they choose well? Which courses convey the core of an authentic liberal arts education, transmitting our c...

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