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Why We Hate Us
American Discontent in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Americans are as safe, well fed, securely sheltered, long-lived, free, and healthy as any human beings who have ever lived on the planet. But we are down on America. So why do we hate us? According to Dick Meyer, the following items on this (much abbreviated) list are some of the contributors to our...
Intellectual Morons
How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Why do well-educated antiwar activists call the president of the United States “the new Hitler” and argue that the U.S. government orchestrated the September 11 attacks?
Why does Al Gore believe that cars pose “a mortal threat to the security of every nation”?
Why does the Princeton...
By the People
Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.
American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of...
The Enduring Revolution
How the Contract with America Continues to Shape the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
To most observers—including many conservatives—the so-called Republican Revolution of 1994 was anything but revolutionary, and the Contract with America that propelled the GOP into power was just a gimmick.
But in The Enduring Revolution, Fox News national reporter Major Garrett turns this...
by Tom Bevan, Carl M. Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Real Clear Politics’ in-depth account of the 2012 primary battles of the Republican Party and the look ahead to the race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama
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With intimate access to the White House, GOP candidates, and their campaign staffs, Real Clear Politics is the latest in a series of...
Grand Theft Jesus
The Hijacking of Religion in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
“Jesus never wrote a book, but I recognize his handwriting in Grand Theft Jesus. Like Jesus, McElvaine uses lively illustrations and a serious sense of humor to cleanse the temple of exclusive and exploitative religion.”
–The Reverend Alan Storey,Calvary Methodist Church, South Africa
“We’re...
Piety & Politics
The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
The Reverend Barry Lynn explains why the Religious Right has it all wrong.
In the wake of the 2004 presidential election, the Religious Right insisted that George Bush had been handed a mandate for an ideology-based social agenda, including the passage of a “marriage amendment” to ban same-sex...
King Con
The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age's Greatest Impostor
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante—the king of Jazz Age con artists—who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game.
Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling with...
Watergate
The Corruption of American Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Here is the definitive history of the Watergate scandal—based on the most recently released tapes, in-depth interviews with many of the participants, and hundreds of official and unofficial documents, including notes Haldeman omitted from his own published diaries. Emery's comprehensive coverage...
Crunchy Cons
The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
When a National Review colleague teased writer Rod Dreher one day about his visit to the local food co-op to pick up a week’s supply of organic vegetables (“Ewww, that’s so lefty”), he started thinking about the ways he and his conservative family lived that put them outside the bounds of...
Why the Left Hates America
Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
"The American flag stands for hatred, warmongering, and imperialism."
"Our free-market system is responsible for killing and oppressing millions of people."
"This country breeds racists and sexists."
Is America really that bad? It is if you accept the lies and propaganda...
The Tyranny of Good Intentions
How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined...
The Times Were a Changin'
The Sixties Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This is a must-have anthology of the milestone speeches, manifestos, court decisions, and groundbreaking journalism of the Sixties. No other period in American history has been more liberating, more confusing, more unforgettable, and had a more direct impact on the way we navigated the profound changes...
On a Farther Shore
The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement
She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it...