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Burk, Kathleen (11/23/2008)
Old World, New World: Great Britain and America From the Beginning
Gioia, Ted (11/16/2008)
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
Lachman, Charles (11/9/2008)
The Last Lincolns: The Rise and Fall of a Great American Family
Thompson, Mary V. (11/2/2008)
In the Hands of a Good Providence: Religion in the Life of George Washington
Fischer, David Hackett (10/26/2008)
Champlain's Dream
McPherson, James M. (10/19/2008)
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Nicolson, Adam (10/12/2008)
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
Roberts, Russell (10/5/2008)
The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity
Buckley, Christopher (9/28/2008)
Supreme Courtship
West, Bing (9/21/2008)
The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the End Game in Iraq
Wilson (editors), Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. (9/14/2008)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Ferrell, Robert H. (9/7/2008)
Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House
Williams, Tony (8/31/2008)
Hurricane of Independence: The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution
Allen, W.B. (8/24/2008)
George Washington: America's First Progressive
Linklater, Andro (8/17/2008)
The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity
Cull, Nicholas J. (8/10/2008)
The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989
Stein, Mark (8/3/2008)
How the States Got Their Shapes
Lehrman, Lewis E. (7/27/2008)
Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point
Felzenberg, Alvin S. (7/20/2008)
The Leaders We Deserved (And a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
Peacock, Anthony A. (7/13/2008)
Deconstructing the Republic: Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Founders' Republicanism Reconsidered
Thomas, George (7/6/2008)
The Madisonian Constitution
Krannawitter, Thomas L. (6/29/2008)
Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President
Singh, Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. (6/22/2008)
After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy
Furst, Alan (6/15/2008)
The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel
West, John G. (6/8/2008)
Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
Gallagher, Gary W. (6/1/2008)
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
Tucker, David (5/25/2008)
Enlightened Republicanism: A Study of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
Brookhiser, Richard (5/18/2008)
George Washington on Leadership
Finn, Jr., Chester E. (5/11/2008)
Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik
Field (editors), Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. (5/4/2008)
The National Mall: Rethinking Washington's Monumental Core
Percoco, James A. (4/27/2008)
Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments
Bernstein, William J. (4/20/2008)
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Crystal, David (4/13/2008)
Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language
Buckley, William F. (4/6/2008)
Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater
Larson, Edward J. (3/30/2008)
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Zall (editor), Paul M. (3/23/2008)
Abe Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter: Humorous Stories by and about Abraham Lincoln
Pinker, Susan (3/16/2008)
Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap
Martin (editors), Douglas Ambrose and Robert (3/9/2008)
The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton: The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father
Goldberg, Jonah (3/2/2008)
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Myers, Peter C. (2/24/2008)
Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism
Howe, Daniel Walker (2/17/2008)
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Cheney, Lynne (2/10/2008)
Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family
Guelzo, Allen C. (2/3/2008)
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America
Steele, Shelby (1/27/2008)
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win
Faulkner, Robert (1/20/2008)
The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics
Vogel (eds.), John Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn (1/13/2008)
Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum
Linn, Brian McAllister (1/6/2008)
The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War
Suri, Jeremi (12/30/2007)
Henry Kissinger and the American Century
Flexner, James Thomas (12/23/2007)
Washington: The Indispensable Man
Sandoval-Strausz, Andrew K. (12/16/2007)
Hotel: An American History
Strassler (editor), Robert B. (12/9/2007)
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
Monroe, Dan (12/2/2007)
The Republican Vision of John Tyler
Pangle, Lorraine Smith (11/25/2007)
The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin
Bailey, Jeremy D. (11/18/2007)
Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power
Manent, Pierre (11/11/2007)
Democracy Without Nations?: The Fate of Self-Government in Europe
Tucker, Christopher J. Lamb and David (11/4/2007)
United States Special Operations Forces
Hayek, F.A. (10/28/2007)
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents -- The Definitive Edition
Meredith, Robyn (10/21/2007)
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means to All of Us
Piereson, James (10/14/2007)
Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
Thomas, Clarence (10/7/2007)
My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir
Novak, Robert D. (9/30/2007)
Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington
Swain (editor), Carol M. (9/23/2007)
Debating Immigration
Lincoln, W. Bruce (9/16/2007)
The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians
Craughwell, Thomas J. (7/15/2007)
Stealing Lincoln's Body
Barone, Michael (7/8/2007)
Our First Revolution: The Remarkable Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
Ferguson, Andrew (7/1/2007)
Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
Reagan, Ronald (6/24/2007)
The Reagan Diaries
Donaldson, Scott (6/17/2007)
Edward Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life
Edwards, Lee (6/10/2007)
Reading the Right Books: A Guide for the Intelligent Conservative
Shlaes, Amity (6/3/2007)
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Smith, Jean Edward (5/27/2007)
FDR
Nuttall, A.D. (5/20/2007)
Shakespeare the Thinker
Rampersad, Arnold (5/13/2007)
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Moyar, Mark (5/6/2007)
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
Harris, William C. (4/29/2007)
Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency
Murphy, Cait (4/22/2007)
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
Lloyd (editor), Gordon (4/15/2007)
The Two Faces of Liberalism: How the Hoover-Roosevelt Debate Shapes the 21st Century
Roberts, Andrew (3/25/2007)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
Agresto, John (3/18/2007)
Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions
Deneen, Patrick J. (3/11/2007)
Democracy's Literature: Politics and Fiction in America
Garsten, Bryan (3/4/2007)
Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment
Luce, Edward (2/25/2007)
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
Jacobs, Alan (2/18/2007)
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Kagan, Frederick (2/11/2007)
Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy
Kengor, Paul (2/4/2007)
The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
O'Sullivan, John (1/28/2007)
The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changes the World
Furst, Alan (1/21/2007)
The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel
Weinberg, Gerhard L. (1/14/2007)
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Middendorf II, J. William (1/7/2007)
A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement
Pressfield, Steven (12/31/2006)
The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
Chan, Michael D. (12/24/2006)
Aristotle and Hamilton on Commerce and Statesmanship
Williams, Juan (12/17/2006)
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
Boritt, Gabor (12/10/2006)
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
Wilson, Douglas L. (12/3/2006)
Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words
Noll, Mark A. (11/26/2006)
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
Weaver, Russell (11/19/2006)
Questioning Keats: An Introduction to Applied Hermeneutics
Wheeler, Tom (11/12/2006)
Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
Habeck, Mary (11/5/2006)
Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Idelogy and the War on Terror
Gati, Charles (10/29/2006)
Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, And the 1956 Hungarian Revolt
Korda, Michael (10/22/2006)
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Boot, Max (10/15/2006)
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today
Ferguson, Niall (10/8/2006)
The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Broadwater, Jeff (10/1/2006)
George Mason: Forgotten Founder
Pipes, Richard (9/24/2006)
Communism: A History
Greenberg, Allan (9/17/2006)
Architecture of Democracy
Strauss, Barry (9/10/2006)
The Trojan War: A New History
Goldsworthy, Adrian (9/3/2006)
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Gibson, Alan (8/27/2006)
Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates over the Origins and Foundations of the American Republic
Codevilla, Paul Seabury and Angelo (8/20/2006)
War: Ends and Means
Tennyson, Alfred Lord (8/13/2006)
The Lady of Shalott
Lendon, J.E. (8/6/2006)
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity
Cohen, Robert E. Wright and David J. (7/30/2006)
Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich
Feulner, Doug Wilson and Edward J. (7/23/2006)
Getting America Right: The True Conservative Values America Needs Today
Remini, Robert V. (7/16/2006)
The House: The History of the House of Representatives
Goodwin, Doris Kearns (7/9/2006)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
O'Shea, Stephen (7/2/2006)
Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World
Brookhiser, Richard (6/25/2006)
What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers
Bennett, William J. (6/18/2006)
America: The Last Best Hope: Volume I: From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
Antongiavanni, Nicholas (6/11/2006)
The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style
Steele, Shelby (6/4/2006)
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
Bowden, Mark (5/28/2006)
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
Johnson, Paul (5/21/2006)
Estados Unidos: La Historia
Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards (5/14/2006)
The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, And the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism
Johnson, Paul (5/7/2006)
Creators: From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney
Hewitt, Hugh (4/30/2006)
Painting the Map Red: The Fight to Create a Permanent Republican Majority
Milton, John (4/23/2006)
Paradise Lost
Ceaser, James W. (4/16/2006)
Nature and History in American Political Development: A Debate
Striner, Richard (4/9/2006)
Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery
Karsh, Efraim (4/2/2006)
Islamic Imperialism: A History
Critchlow, Donald T. (3/26/2006)
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade
Barnes, Fred (3/19/2006)
Rebel-in-Chief: How George W. Bush Is Redefining the Conservative Movement and Transforming America
Gilbert, Martin (3/12/2006)
Churchill and America
Mansfield, Harvey C. (3/5/2006)
Manliness
Chang, Jung (2/26/2006)
Mao: The Unknown Story
Ehrman, John (2/19/2006)
The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan
Zuckert (editors), Thomas S. Engeman & Michael P. (2/12/2006)
Protestantism and the American Founding
Gaddis, John Lewis (2/5/2006)
The Cold War: A New History
London, Joshua E. (1/29/2006)
Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation
Lawler, Peter Augustine (1/22/2006)
Stuck with Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future
Carwardine, Richard (1/15/2006)
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power
Gaffney, Frank J. (1/8/2006)
War Footing: 10 Steps America Must Take to Prevail in the War for the Free World
Nuland, Sherwin B. (1/1/2006)
Maimonides
Cheney, Lynne (12/25/2005)
A Time for Freedom: What Happened When in America
West, Bing (12/18/2005)
No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
Thomas, Andrew Peyton (12/11/2005)
The People v. Harvard Law: How America's Oldest Law School Turned Its Back on Free Speech
Fick, Nathaniel (12/4/2005)
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Morrison, Jeffrey H. (11/27/2005)
John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic
Busch, Andrew E. (11/20/2005)
Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right
Steyn, Mark (11/13/2005)
America Alone: Our Country's Future as a Lone Warrior
Brands, H.W. (11/6/2005)
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
Weinberger, Jerry (10/30/2005)
Benjamin Franklin Unmasked: On The Unity Of His Moral, Religious, And Political Thought
Bostom, Andrew G. (10/23/2005)
The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
Meredith, Martin (10/16/2005)
The Fate Of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to The Heart of Despair
Hayward, Steven F. (10/9/2005)
Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders
Hanson, Victor Davis (10/2/2005)
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and the Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Masugi (editors), John Marini and Ken (9/25/2005)
The Progressive Revolution in Politics and Political Science
Deutsch (editor), Kenneth L. (9/18/2005)
Lincoln's American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives
McCullough, David (9/11/2005)
1776
Eberstadt, Mary (9/4/2005)
Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes
Foskett, Ken (8/28/2005)
Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas
Behnegar, Nasser (8/21/2005)
Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics
Dent, Nicholas (8/14/2005)
Rousseau
Helprin, Mark (8/7/2005)
Freddy and Fredericka
Ostler, Nicholas (7/31/2005)
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Buckley, F.H. (7/24/2005)
The Morality of Laughter
Murphy, David E. (7/17/2005)
What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa
McCarry, Charles (7/10/2005)
Old Boys
Rabkin, Jeremy (7/3/2005)
Law Without Nations?: Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States
Johnson, Paul (6/26/2005)
George Washington: The Founding Father
Dalrymple, Theodore (6/19/2005)
Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
Vedder, Richard (6/12/2005)
Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much
Service, Robert (6/5/2005)
Stalin: A Biography
Dole, Bob (5/29/2005)
One Soldier's Story: A Memoir
Barone, Michael (5/22/2005)
Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future
Briggs, John Channing (5/15/2005)
Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered
Busch, James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. (5/8/2005)
Red Over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics
Anderson, Brian C. (5/1/2005)
South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias
Addison, Paul (4/24/2005)
Churchill: The Unexpected Hero
Schweikart, Michael Allen and Larry (4/17/2005)
A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror
Edwards, Lee (4/10/2005)
The Essential Ronald Reagan: A Profile in Courage, Justice, and Wisdom
Moser, John E. (4/3/2005)
Right Turn: John T. Flynn And The Transformation Of American Liberalism
Middlekauff, Robert (3/27/2005)
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763-1789
White, Jr., Ronald C. (3/20/2005)
The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words
Riley, Naomi Schaefer (3/13/2005)
God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America
Rozelle, David (3/6/2005)
Back in Action: An American Soldier's Story of Courage, Faith and Fortitude
Bennett, James C. (2/27/2005)
The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century
Pestritto, Ronald J. (2/20/2005)
Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
Levin, Mark R. (2/13/2005)
Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America
Shirley, Craig (2/6/2005)
Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All
Sharansky, Natan (1/30/2005)
The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
McCrum, Robert (1/23/2005)
Wodehouse: A Life
Rabkin, Jeremy (1/16/2005)
The Case for Sovereignty: Why the World Should Welcome American Independence
Herman, Arthur (1/9/2005)
To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
Wolfe, Tom (1/2/2005)
I Am Charlotte Simmons
Sienkiewicz, Henryk (12/26/2004)
Quo Vadis
Epstein, Daniel Mark (12/19/2004)
Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
Friedman, George (12/12/2004)
America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies
Furst, Alan (12/5/2004)
Dark Voyage: A Novel
Buckley, Jr., William J. (11/28/2004)
Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography
Helprin, Mark (11/21/2004)
The Pacific and Other Stories
Miller, Mark Molesky and John J. (11/14/2004)
Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disasterous Relationship with France
Skinner, Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson, Kiron K. (11/7/2004)
Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings
Webb, James (10/31/2004)
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
Fischer, David Hackett (10/24/2004)
Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas
Fund, John (10/17/2004)
Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
Crystal, David (10/10/2004)
The Stories of English
Bolick, Clint (10/3/2004)
Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty
Pipes, Sally C. (9/26/2004)
Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health-Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer
Taranto (editors), Leonard Leo and James (9/19/2004)
Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House
Allen, Danielle S. (9/12/2004)
Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown V. Board of Education
Wood, Gordon S. (9/5/2004)
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
O'Neill, John E. (8/29/2004)
Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks,  (8/22/2004)
The 9/11 Commission Report
Buruma, Avishai Margalit and Ian (8/15/2004)
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies
Miller, Stephen G. (8/8/2004)
Ancient Greek Athletics
Hayes, Stephen F. (8/1/2004)
The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America
Farber, Daniel (7/25/2004)
Lincoln's Constitution
Harris, William C. (7/18/2004)
With Charity for All: Lincoln and the Restoration of the Union
Brann, Eva (7/11/2004)
The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings
Mandelbaum, Michael (7/4/2004)
The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball and What They See When They Do
Anonymous,  (6/27/2004)
Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America
Ferguson, Niall (6/20/2004)
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire
Barnett, Thomas P.M. (6/13/2004)
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
Kelly, Michael (6/6/2004)
Things Worth Fighting For: Collected Writings
Wiencek, Henry (5/30/2004)
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Montefiore, Simon Sebag (5/23/2004)
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Edwards, Lee (5/16/2004)
Educating for Liberty: The First Half-Century of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Chernow, Ron (5/9/2004)
Alexander Hamilton
Hayward, Steven F. (5/2/2004)
The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry
Perret, Geoffrey (4/25/2004)
Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief
Holzer, Harold (4/18/2004)
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
Edmondson, Henry T. (4/11/2004)
Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism
McDougall, Walter A. (4/4/2004)
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828
Podhoretz, Norman (3/28/2004)
The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings From the 1950s Through the 1990s
Graham, Jr., Otis L. (3/21/2004)
Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis
Fischer, David Hackett (3/14/2004)
Washington's Crossing
Sowell, Thomas (3/7/2004)
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
Morel (editor), Lucas (2/29/2004)
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man
Podhoretz, John (2/22/2004)
Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane
Gaddis, John Lewis (2/15/2004)
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Masugi (editors), Brian P. Janiskee & Ken (2/8/2004)
The California Republic: Institutions, Statesmanship, and Policies
Guelzo, Allen (2/1/2004)
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
Stoner, James R. (1/25/2004)
Common Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism
Decter, Midge (1/18/2004)
Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait
Powell, Jim (1/11/2004)
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
Johnson, Paul (1/4/2004)
Art: A New History
Murray, Charles (12/28/2003)
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950
Churchill, Winston S. (12/21/2003)
Never Give In: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
Simmons, Tracy Lee (12/14/2003)
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
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Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America
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Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham
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Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation
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Ingraham, Laura (10/26/2003)
Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America
Berman, Paul (10/19/2003)
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Posner, Gerald L. (10/12/2003)
Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11
Anderson (Editors), Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin (10/5/2003)
Reagan: A Life in Letters
Lowry, Rich (9/28/2003)
Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years
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The American Founding and the Social Compact
Miniter, Richard (9/14/2003)
Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror
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How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life
Machiavelli, Christopher Lynch (translator), Niccolo (8/31/2003)
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The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
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Habits of Mind: Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher Education
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Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
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Lewis, Bernard (5/4/2003)
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Taubman, William (4/13/2003)
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Patterson, Robert (4/6/2003)
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Berkowitz, Bruce (3/30/2003)
The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century
Wood, Peter (3/23/2003)
Diversity: The Invention of a Concept
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One Dream or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King Jr.
Buckley, Jr., William F. (3/9/2003)
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Liberalism With Honor
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Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics
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Abraham Lincoln: A Penguin Lives Biography
Larres, Klaus (1/5/2003)
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Valiunas, Algis (12/29/2002)
Churchill's Military Histories: A Rhetorical Study
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The Fifty-Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory
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Aliens in America: The Strange Truth about Our Souls
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Marlborough: Volume I
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Winston Churchill: A Penguin Lives Biography
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Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism
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Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
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Gertz, Bill (9/1/2002)
Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
Longman, Jere (8/25/2002)
Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 & the Passengers & Crew Who Fought Back
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Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S.
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Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence
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Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
Peters, Ralph (7/21/2002)
Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World
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Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism
D'Souza, Dinesh (7/7/2002)
What's So Great About America
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
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Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
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Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush
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Churchill: A Study in Greatness
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Beyond the Color Line: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
Brookhiser, Richard (3/17/2002)
America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735 - 1918
Robinson, Matthew (3/10/2002)
Mobocracy: How the Media's Obsession with Polling Twists the News, Alters Elections, and Undermines Democracy
Decter, Midge (3/3/2002)
An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War
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Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural
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Churchill: A Biography
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Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography
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Lilla, Mark (1/20/2002)
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
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The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War
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In the Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century
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The CEO of the Sofa
Lomborg, Bjørn (12/23/2001)
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
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Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban
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The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
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When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan
Bergen, Peter L. (11/25/2001)
Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
Netanyahu, Benjamin (11/18/2001)
Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies can Defeat Terrorist Networks—2001 Edition
Bennett, William J. (11/11/2001)
The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family
Mylroie, Laurie (11/4/2001)
Study of Revenge: The First World Trade Center Attack and Saddam Hussein's War against America
Busch, Andrew E. (10/28/2001)
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
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Studies in Islamic Law: Classical and Contemporary Application
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On the Edge of Earth: The Future of American Space Power
Rashid, Ahmed (9/30/2001)
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Webb, James (9/24/2001)
Lost Soldiers
Hanson, Victor Davis (9/17/2001)
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
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Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars
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The Mystery of Courage
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A Soldier's Duty: A Novel
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The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Liberal Order, 1964-1980
Das, Gurcharan (8/13/2001)
India Unbound
Bovard, James (8/6/2001)
Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years
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The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again
McCullough, David (7/23/2001)
John Adams
Chatters, James C. (7/16/2001)
Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans
Alschuler, Albert W. (7/9/2001)
Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
Deaver, Michael K. (7/2/2001)
A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan
Perlstein, Rick (6/25/2001)
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
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The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election
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Kennedy Versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race
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Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli
Burnstein, Andrew (5/28/2001)
America's Jubilee: How in 1826 a Generation Remembered Fifty Years of Independence
Thompson, ed., C. Bradley (5/21/2001)
The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams
Berns, Walter (5/14/2001)
Making Patriots
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Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets
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Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform
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Power Versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson
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Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Allgor, Catherine (2/26/2001)
Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
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The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
Wattenberg, Caplow, Hicks & (2/12/2001)
The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide To Trends In America, 1900-2000
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Ending Welfare As We Know It
Pitney, Jr., John J. (1/16/2001)
The Art of Political Warfare
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The Federalist Papers: A Commentary
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The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence
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Terrorism Today
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America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800
Gilder, George (11/13/2000)
Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
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Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics
Wilford, John Noble (10/30/2000)
The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography—from Antiquity to the Space Age
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Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms
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Sell Out: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment
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Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
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My Love Affair With America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative
Herman, Arthur (8/21/2000)
Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator
Huber, Peter (8/14/2000)
Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto
Barzun, Jacques (8/7/2000)
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (1500 to the Present)
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Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865
Newell, ed., Waller R. (7/24/2000)
What Is A Man?: 3,000 Years of Wisdom on the Art of Manly Virtue
Newell, ed., Waller R. (7/24/2000)
What Is A Man?: 3,000 Years of Wisdom on the Art of Manly Virtue
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Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War
Connerly, Ward (6/12/2000)
Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences
Yarbrough, Jean M. (5/29/2000)
American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Morel, Lucas E. (5/22/2000)
Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government
Sandys, Celia (5/8/2000)
Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive
Slotkin, Richard (5/1/2000)
Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln
Allen, Danielle S. (4/17/2000)
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Shankman, Kimberly C. (4/10/2000)
Compromise and the Constitution: The Political Thought of Henry Clay
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Last Rights?: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debated
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Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society
Odom, William E. (3/20/2000)
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Churchill's “Iron Curtain” Speech: Fifty Years Later
Wills, Gary (3/6/2000)
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Himmelfarb, Gertrude (2/28/2000)
One Nation, Two Cultures
Rosen, Gary (2/21/2000)
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Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
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Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America
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Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology
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Five Days in London: May 1940
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Wilson, Douglas L. (12/6/1999)
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Bowden, Mark (11/29/1999)
Black Hawk Down
Anastaplo, George (11/22/1999)
Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography
McLean, Duncan (11/15/1999)
Lone Star Swing: On the Trail of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Hanson, Victor Davis (11/15/1999)
The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny
Morris, Edmund (11/15/1999)
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Shattan, Joseph (11/8/1999)
Architect's of Victory: Six Heroes of the Cold War
Posner, Richard A. (11/1/1999)
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Walling, Karl-Friedrich (10/25/1999)
Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government
Cowley, Robert (10/18/1999)
What If: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
Denton, Michael J. (10/11/1999)
Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe
Jaffa, Harry V. (10/4/1999)
Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
Stotsky, Sandra (9/27/1999)
Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write, and Re
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The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic
Ellison, Ralph (8/16/1999)
Juneteenth: A Novel
Buckley Jr., William F. (8/9/1999)
The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy
Crooker III, H.W. (7/26/1999)
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Gertz, Bill (7/19/1999)
Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security
Hirsch, Jr., E. D. (7/12/1999)
The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them
Webb, James (7/5/1999)
The Emperor's General
Furet, François (6/28/1999)
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Pipes, Richard (6/14/1999)
Property and Freedom
Malia, Martin (6/7/1999)
Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
Wurmser, David (5/31/1999)
Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein
Crittenden, Danielle (5/24/1999)
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
Ritter, Scott (5/17/1999)
Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem -- Once and for All
Gerber, Scott Douglas (5/10/1999)
First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas
Edwards, Lee (5/3/1999)
The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America, from Robert Taft to Newt Gingrich
Clark, William A. V. (4/26/1999)
The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities
French, Blaire (4/19/1999)
The Ticking Tenure Clock: An Academic Novel
Gilbert, Martin (4/12/1999)
A History of the Twentieth Century: (Vol. 2: 1933-1951)
Fromkin, David (4/5/1999)
The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
Bovard , James (3/29/1999)
Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
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Alexander Hamilton: American
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A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
Etcoff, Nancy (3/8/1999)
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
Thompson, C. Bradley (3/1/1999)
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
Weinstein, Allen (3/1/1999)
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America-The Stalin Era
McMurtry, Larry (3/1/1999)
Crazy Horse
Rehnquist, William H. (2/22/1999)
All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
Nichols, Mary P. (2/8/1999)
Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen
Moravec, Hans (2/1/1999)
Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
Mayhew, Robert (1/25/1999)
Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic
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Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
de Alvarez , Leo Paul (1/17/1999)
The Machiavellian Enterprise: A Commentary on The Prince
Steele, Shelby (1/11/1999)
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Mayer, David N. (12/21/1998)
The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson
Lowenthal, David (12/21/1998)
No Liberty for License: The Forgotten Logic of the First Amendment
Manent, Pierre (12/14/1998)
The City of Man
Gress, David (12/7/1998)
From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents
Zuckert, Michael P. (11/30/1998)
The Natural Rights Republic: Studies in the Foundation of the American Political Tradition
Jacoby, Tamar (11/23/1998)
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration
Lieven, Anatol (11/16/1998)
Chechnya: Thombstone of Russian Power
Sleeper, Jim (11/9/1998)
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Woodson, Sr., Robert L. (11/2/1998)
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Fischer, David Hackett (10/12/1998)
Paul Revere's Ride
Suro, Robert (10/5/1998)
Stangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration is Transforming America
Graglia, F. Carolyn (9/28/1998)
Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism
Bennett, William J. (9/21/1998)
The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals
Perry, Mark (9/14/1998)
Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War
Powers, Richard Gid (9/7/1998)
Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism
Grant, Ruth Weissbourd (8/3/1998)
Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics
Sobel, Robert (7/20/1998)
Coolidge: An American Enigma
Ferrell, Robert H. (7/13/1998)
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Sowell, Thomas (7/13/1998)
Conquests & Cultures
McCarthy, Cormac (7/6/1998)
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More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
Smith, Jean Edward (6/15/1998)
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
Miller, John J. (6/8/1998)
The Unmaking of Americans: How Multiculturalism Has Undermined America's Assimilation Ethic
Bailey ed., Ronald (5/25/1998)
The True State of the Planet: Ten of the World's Premier Environmental Researchers in a Major Challenge to the Environmental Movem
Gross, Martin L. (5/18/1998)
The End of Sanity: Social and Cultural Madness in America
Noonan, Peggy (5/11/1998)
Simply Speaking: How to Communicate Your Ideas with Style, Substance, and Clarity
Cannon, Lou (5/4/1998)
Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD
Lebedoff, David (4/27/1998)
Cleaning Up: The Story Behind the Biggest Legal Bonanza of Our Time
Hanson, Victor Davis (4/20/1998)
Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and The Recovery of Greek Wisdom
Hughes, Robert (4/13/1998)
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
Wilkinson, III, J. Harvie (4/6/1998)
One Nation Indivisible: How Ethnic Separatism Threatens America
Banning, Lance (3/23/1998)
The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic
Johnson, Paul (3/16/1998)
A History of the American People
Warren, Robert Penn (3/9/1998)
All the King's Men
Brookhiser, Richard (3/2/1998)
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington
Zuckert, Michael P. (2/23/1998)
Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
Rampersad, Arnold (2/16/1998)
Jackie Robinson: A Biography
Churchill, Winston (2/9/1998)
My Early Life: 1874-1904
Bobrick, Benson (2/2/1998)
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution
Morris, Edmund (1/26/1998)
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
West, Jr., John G. (1/12/1998)
The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation
Roberts, J. M. (1/5/1998)
A History of Europe
Ceasar, James W. (12/29/1997)
Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought
D'Souza, Dinesh (12/22/1997)
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader
Thomas, Hugh (12/15/1997)
The Slave Trade
Codevilla, Angelo M. (12/8/1997)
The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility
Lynch, Frederick R. (12/1/1997)
The Diversity Machine: The Drive to Change the "White Male Workplace"
Lieberman, Myron (11/24/1997)
The Teachers' Unions: How the NEA and AFT Sabotage Reform and Hold Students, Parents, Teachers, and Taxpayers Hostage to B
Shirley, Edward (11/17/1997)
Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran
Tucker, David (11/10/1997)
Skirmishes at the Edge of Empire: The United States and International Terrorism
Remini, Robert (11/3/1997)
Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time
Bennett, William J. (10/27/1997)
Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems, and Speeches
Tanenhaus, Sam (10/20/1997)
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography
Kagan, Robert (10/13/1997)
A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990
McDougall, Walter A. (10/6/1997)
Let the Sea Make A Noise: A History of the North A History of the North to MacArthur
West, Thomas G. (9/29/1997)
Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
Kissinger, Henry (9/8/1997)
Diplomacy
McDougall, Walter A. (8/25/1997)
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776
Alvis, John (8/18/1997)
Divine Purpose and Heroic Response in Homer and Virgil: The Political Plan of Zeus
Hayward, Steven F. (8/11/1997)
Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity
Emmert, Kirk (7/28/1997)
Winston S. Churchill on Empire
Bennett, William J. (7/21/1997)
The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
Langguth, A.J. (7/14/1997)
Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution

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