Encounter Books: 253 books
This Time We Win
Revisiting the Tet Offensive
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Most of what Americans have heard about the Tet Offensive is wrong. The brief battles in early 1968 during the Vietnam conflict marked the dividing line between gradual progress toward possible victory and slow descent to a humiliating defeat. That the enemy was handily defeated on the ground was...
Escape from North Korea
The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
From the world’s most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia...
Blood of Tyrants
George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Blood of Tyrants reveals the surprising details of our Founding Fathers’ approach to government and this history’s impact on today. Delving into forgotten-and often lurid-facts of the Revolutionary War, Logan Beirne focuses on the nation’s first commander in chief, George Washington, as he shaped...
by Sol Stern
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an international campaign to achieve recognition by the United Nations for an independent Palestinian state. Abbas and his international supporters claim that only Israel (with the United States) stands in the way of this act of historical justice, which...
The Road to Fatima Gate
The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The Road to Fatima Gate is a first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history’s violent return to Lebanon after fifteen years of quiet. Michael J. Totten’s version of events in one of the most volatile countries in the world’s most volatile region is one part war...
Common Sense Nation
Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
This sentence is perfectly familiar. We know it as a core principle of our founding....
Saturday People, Sunday People
Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
Saturday People, Sunday People is a unique portrait of Israel as seen through the eyes of a Christian who came for a visit and has stayed on for more than six years. Long fascinated by a land that has become an abstraction centering on international conflicts of epic proportions, Lela Gilbert arrived...
by Michael Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Since the day Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers, the Democratic Party has been at war with America. With a history that includes murder, treason, slavery, segregation, sedition, bribery, and systemic vote theft,...
Heaven on Earth
The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in “science.” Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to “the New Man” inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy,...
Flight of the Eagle
The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington,...
I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican
A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
With biting wit and amusing personal anecdotes, Harry Stein’s I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican chronicles the everyday travails and triumphs of the plucky conservatives marooned in the liberal bastions that loathe them, from Manhattan to Hollywood, to all the noxious places in between....
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
John V. Lindsay was elected mayor of New York City in 1965. But that year’s mayoral campaign will forever be known as the Buckley campaign. As a candidate,” Joseph Alsop conceded, Buckley was cleverer and livelier than either of his rivals.” And Murray Kempton concluded that The process which...
Why Coolidge Matters
Leadership Lessons from Americas Most Underrated President
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Imagine a country in which strikes by public-sector unions occupied the public square; where foreign policy wandered aimlessly as America disentangled itself from wars abroad and a potential civil war on its southern border; where racial and ethnic groups jostled for political influence; where a war...
The Long March
How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the "cultural revolution" of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed...