Intercollegiate Studies Institute Ord: 88 books
America's Way Back
Reclaiming Freedom, Tradition, and Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“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...
Growing Up Guggenheim
A Personal History of a Family Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
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...
The Office of Assertion
An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, “That’s just rhetoric!” But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The ability to employ rhetoric successfully can enable the student,...
The Closing of the Muslim Mind
How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisis—and the threat to us all
Robert R. Reilly’s eye-opening book masterfully explains the frightening behavior coming out of the Islamic world. Terrorism, he shows, is only one manifestation of the spiritual pathology of Islamism.
Reilly...
Did Muhammad Exist?
An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Are jihadists dying for a fiction? Everything you thought you knew about Islam is about to change.
Did Muhammad exist?
It is a question that few have thought—or dared—to ask. Virtually everyone, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, takes for granted that the prophet of Islam lived and led...
Cult City
Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
In recounting the fascinating, intersecting stories of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong.
November 1978. Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a...
William F. Buckley Jr.
The Maker of a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The modern-day Renaissance man who forged the conservative movement
Noted conservative historian Lee Edwards, who knew William F. Buckley Jr. for more than forty years, delivers a much-needed intellectual biography of the man has been called “arguably the most important public intellectual...
J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth
Understanding Middle-earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Since the appearance of The Lord of the Rings in 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien’s works have always sold briskly, appealing to a wide and diverse audience of intellectuals, religious believers, fantasy enthusiasts, and science fiction aficionados. Now, Peter Jackson’s film version of Tolkien’s trilogy—with...
by Russell Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this classic title, Kirk outlines ten principles of conservative thought, summarizes ten vital conservative books, and offers brief accounts of ten eminent, internationally important conservatives. This book, written by the founder of modern conservatism in America, reflects several decades of learning, travel, and practical politics.
by Lawrence W Reed
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Character is indispensable to a successful career and a happy life. It’s also essential to our liberty, because if a society can’t govern itself, then government must step in to police our decisions and actions.
Sounds pretty heavy, right? Well, the good news is that character is nothing more...
American Cicero
The Life of Charles Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Aristocrat. Catholic. Patriot. Founder.
Before his death in 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton—the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence—was widely regarded as one of the most important Founders. Today, Carroll’s signal contributions to the American Founding are overlooked,...
by Gary L Gregg II, Mark David Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Even as Americans devour books about our Founding Fathers, the focus seldom extends past a half dozen or so icons—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton. Many of the men (and women) who made prodigious contributions to the American founding have been all but forgotten.
America’s...
If Not Us, Who?
William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
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...
Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet
The Life of Martin Luther
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us—if he is known at all—as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation...