Encounter Books imprint: 252 books

How Obama is Transforming America's Military from Superpower to Paper Tiger

The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century

by Jed Babbin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010

Barack Obama has made it clear that he thinks the world would be a better and more peaceful place if the United States were too weak to affect the course of events. Obama, along with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, has slashed missile defense, dramatically reduced investment in future military technologies,...

The New Leviathan

The State Versus the Individual in the 21st Century

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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

The ideas and policies that are percolating down from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill-increased government intervention, calls to “spread the wealth around,” onerous regulations, and bailouts for all-are not new. We’ve been down this road before. We know where it leads. It is that forlorn...

The Grand Jihad

How Islam and the Left Sabotage America

by Andrew C McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012

The real threat to the United States is not terrorism. The real threat is the sophisticated forces of Islamism, which have collaborated with the American Left not only to undermine U.S. national security, but to shred the fabric of American constitutional democracy-freedom and individual liberty....

Land of Hope

An Invitation to the Great American Story

by Wilfred M. McClay
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019

We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country. Such an account can shape and...

In Defense of Faith

The Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity

by David Brog
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

Religious faith is under assault. In books and movies and on television, militant secular critics attack religion with a renewed vigor. These “new atheists” repeat a two-part mantra: that religious faith is hopelessly irrational and that those possessed of such faith are responsible for the hatred...

Three Felonies A Day

How the Feds Target the Innocent

by Harvey Silverglate
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011

The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in...

The Nixon Effect

How Richard Nixon’s Presidency Fundamentally Changed American Politics

by Douglas E. Schoen
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016

The Nixon Effect examines the 37th president’s political legacy in broad-ranging ways that make clear, for the first time, the breadth and duration of his influence on American political life. The book argues that Nixon is the key political figure in postwar American politics in multiple ways, some...

Hidden in Plain Sight

What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis-and Why It Could Happen Again

by Peter J. Wallison
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016

The 2008 financial crisis-like the Great Depression-was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced...

Invisible Wealth

The Hidden Story of How Markets Work

by Arnold Kling, Nick Schulz
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011

The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete...

What Is Marriage?

Man and Woman: A Defense

by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T Anderson, Robert P George
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

Until yesterday, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage is unnecessary, unreasonable, and contrary to the common good. Originally...

Men on Strike

Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters

by Helen Smith, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014

American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going “on strike.” They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been...

America in the Age of Trump

A Bipartisan Guide

by Douglas E. Schoen, Jessica Tarlov
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018

*America in the Age of Trump is a bracing, essential look at the failure of a great nation to meet the needs of its people and the challenges of the age—and the resulting collapse of public trust in government, as well as a pervasive crisis of national values, from broken families to a loss of faith...

When Reason Goes on Holiday

Philosophers in Politics

by Neven Sesardic
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

Philosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues they will usually inject a dose of rationality in these discussions, right? Wrong. This book gives a lot of examples showing the unexpected level of political irrationality...

The Lives of the Constitution

Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America’s Supreme Law

by Joseph Tartakovsky
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals—some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Tartakovsky...
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