Encounter Books: 253 books
by Leoluca Orlando
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Growing up in an aristocratic family that seems almost to have stepped out of the pages of The Leopard, Leoluca Orlando entered law and politics in the late 1970s as one of the young idealists identified with the Catholic Church who were challenging the Mafia’s control of Sicilian life. At about the...
The Black Book of the American Left
The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
David Horowitz spent the first part of his life in the world of the Communist-progressive left, a politics he inherited from his mother and father, and later in the New Left as one of its founders. When the wreckage he and his comrades had created became clear to him in the mid-1970s, he left. Three...
Please Stop Helping Us
How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people...
Thanksgiving
The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
We all know the story of Thanksgiving. Or do we? This uniquely American holiday has a rich and little known history beyond the famous feast of 1621.
In Thanksgiving, award-winning author Melanie Kirkpatrick journeys through four centuries of history, giving us a vivid portrait of our nation's...
The War on Cops
How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline. Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the “Ferguson effect”:...
The Persian Night
Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Who really rules Iran today? Are the men in official positions merely puppets activated by hidden hands? How are decisions made in a system that appears so chaotic at first glance? Is the current political structure doomed to conflict? These are some of the questions that Amir Taheri addresses in this...
A New Shoah
The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Every day in Israel, memorials are being held for the victims of Islamic fundamentalism. Since the Second Intifada” began ten years ago, Palestinian terrorists have claimed 1,700 Israeli civilians. This equates to a staggering 70,000 victims, when adjusted to the United States population for scale.
In...
by Mark Krikorian
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
President Obama and his allies have made no secret about their immigration goals: easy amnesty, loose enforcement, and ever-higher levels of legal immigration. One prominent labor leader has boasted that continued mass immigration "will solidify and expand the progressive coalition for the future."In...
by Stephen Moore
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
What happens when a leading conservative economist goes mano a mano with today’s most influential exponent of left-liberal economics, over free markets versus government interventionism? Here are highlights of that showdown between Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation and Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate.Moore...
Dancing with the Devil
The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The world has seldom been as dangerous as it is now. Rogue regimes-governments and groups that eschew diplomatic normality, sponsor terrorism, and proliferate nuclear weapons-threaten the United States around the globe. Because sanctions and military action are so costly, the American strategy of first...
Iran's Deadly Ambition
The Islamic Republic's Quest for Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Are we on the cusp of détente with Iran? Conventional wisdom certainly seems to believe so. Since the start of diplomacy between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 powers (the United States, France, England, Russia, China, Germany) in November 2013, hopes have been running high for a historic reconciliation...
Peace, They Say
A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
In this book, Jay Nordlinger gives a history of what the subtitle calls the most famous and controversial prize in the world.” The Nobel Peace Prize, like the other Nobel prizes, began in 1901. So we have a neat, sweeping history of the 20th century, and about a decade beyond. The Nobel prize...
Empire of Lies
The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2009
Before the totalitarian reign of Mao Zedong and his immediate successors, never in human history had an entire nation been under such intense surveillance. The Chinese not only had to speak alike; they had to think alike. Traveling to China regularly since 1967, and spending all of 2005 and 2006 there,...
by Daniel Hannan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Daniel Hannan, a British Conservative Member of the European Parliament, calls on Americans to avoid Europe's future. He traces the common roots of British and American liberty, and describes how both countries are losing their inheritance as government crowds out the private sphere. He calls for a renewed...