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McCullough, David (9/11/2005)
1776
Steele, Shelby (1/27/2008)
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win
Deaver, Michael K. (7/2/2001)
A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan
Steele, Shelby (1/11/1999)
A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
Middendorf II, J. William (1/7/2007)
A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement
Roberts, J. M. (1/5/1998)
A History of Europe
Johnson, Paul (3/16/1998)
A History of the American People
Roberts, Andrew (3/25/2007)
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
Gilbert, Martin (4/12/1999)
A History of the Twentieth Century: (Vol. 2: 1933-1951)
Larson, Edward J. (3/30/2008)
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Jaffa, Harry V. (10/16/2000)
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War
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
Moyar, Mark (9/27/2009)
A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq
Shalit, Wendy (3/15/1999)
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
Ricks, Thomas E. (8/27/2001)
A Soldier's Duty: A Novel
Bernstein, William J. (4/20/2008)
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
Cheney, Lynne (12/25/2005)
A Time for Freedom: What Happened When in America
Kagan, Robert (10/13/1997)
A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990
Hanson, Victor Davis (10/2/2005)
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and the Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Weinberg, Gerhard L. (1/14/2007)
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Slotkin, Richard (5/1/2000)
Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln
Zall (editor), Paul M. (3/23/2008)
Abe Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter: Humorous Stories by and about Abraham Lincoln
Linton, Paul Benjamin (2/1/2009)
Abortion under State Constitutions: A State-by-State Analysis
Keneally, Thomas (1/12/2003)
Abraham Lincoln: A Penguin Lives Biography
Anastaplo, George (11/22/1999)
Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography
McPherson, James M. (1/18/2009)
Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life
Guelzo, Allen C. (2/14/2000)
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
Belz, Herman (9/20/1999)
Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
Goodson, Larry P. (12/16/2001)
Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban
Singh, Timothy J. Lynch and Robert S. (6/22/2008)
After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy
Chernow, Ron (5/9/2004)
Alexander Hamilton
Brookhiser, Richard (3/22/1999)
Alexander Hamilton: American
Knott, Stephen F. (2/2/2003)
Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth
Lawler, Peter Augustine (12/8/2002)
Aliens in America: The Strange Truth about Our Souls
Warren, Robert Penn (3/9/1998)
All the King's Men
Rehnquist, William H. (2/22/1999)
All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
Bruni, Frank (4/7/2002)
Ambling into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush
Weisberger, Bernard A. (11/20/2000)
America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800
Steyn, Mark (11/13/2005)
America Alone: Our Country's Future as a Lone Warrior
Bennett, William J. (6/18/2006)
America: The Last Best Hope: Volume I: From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
Rosen, Gary (2/21/2000)
American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding
Yarbrough, Jean M. (5/29/2000)
American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Hughes, Robert (4/13/1998)
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
Brookhiser, Richard (3/17/2002)
America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735 - 1918
Burnstein, Andrew (5/28/2001)
America's Jubilee: How in 1826 a Generation Remembered Fifty Years of Independence
Friedman, George (12/12/2004)
America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies
Longman, Jere (8/25/2002)
Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 & the Passengers & Crew Who Fought Back
Posner, Richard A. (11/1/1999)
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
Hanson, Victor Davis (9/8/2002)
An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism
Wiencek, Henry (5/30/2004)
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Decter, Midge (3/3/2002)
An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War
Chatters, James C. (7/16/2001)
Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans
Miller, Stephen G. (8/8/2004)
Ancient Greek Athletics
Brands, H.W. (11/6/2005)
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
Remini, Robert V. (9/10/2001)
Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars
Bobrick, Benson (2/2/1998)
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution
Sowell, Thomas (3/7/2004)
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
Shattan, Joseph (11/8/1999)
Architect's of Victory: Six Heroes of the Cold War
Greenberg, Allan (9/17/2006)
Architecture of Democracy
Chan, Michael D. (12/24/2006)
Aristotle and Hamilton on Commerce and Statesmanship
Pangle, Lorraine Smith (4/27/2003)
Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship
Mayhew, Robert (1/25/1999)
Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic
Johnson, Paul (1/4/2004)
Art: A New History
Machiavelli, Christopher Lynch (translator), Niccolo (8/31/2003)
Art of War
Knott (editors), Jeffrey Chidester and Stephen (10/18/2009)
At Reagan's Side: Insiders' Recollections from Sacramento to the White House
Rozelle, David (3/6/2005)
Back in Action: An American Soldier's Story of Courage, Faith and Fortitude
Zak, Michael (4/23/2001)
Back to Basics for the Republican Party
Korman, Rich Lowry and Keith (5/17/2009)
Banquo's Ghosts
Perlstein, Rick (6/25/2001)
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Isaacson, Walter (8/10/2003)
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Weinberger, Jerry (10/30/2005)
Benjamin Franklin Unmasked: On The Unity Of His Moral, Religious, And Political Thought
Gertz, Bill (7/19/1999)
Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security
Peters, Ralph (7/21/2002)
Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World
Thernstrom (Editors), Abigail and Stephan (3/24/2002)
Beyond the Color Line: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
Bowden, Mark (11/29/1999)
Black Hawk Down
Cheney, Lynne (2/10/2008)
Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family
Zinsmeister, Karl (11/23/2003)
Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq
Webb, James (10/31/2004)
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
Gertz, Bill (9/1/2002)
Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
Will, George F. (8/30/1999)
Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose and Other Reflections on Baseball
Podhoretz, John (2/22/2004)
Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane
Anastaplo, George (6/16/2002)
But Not Philosophy: Seven Introductions to Non-Western Thought
Goldsworthy, Adrian (9/3/2006)
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Piereson, James (10/14/2007)
Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
Hanson, Victor Davis (9/17/2001)
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
Gallagher, Gary W. (6/1/2008)
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
Fischer, David Hackett (10/26/2008)
Champlain's Dream
Crile, George (8/3/2003)
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
Lieven, Anatol (11/16/1998)
Chechnya: Thombstone of Russian Power
Viteritti, Joseph P. (3/27/2000)
Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society
Johnson, Paul (11/22/2009)
Churchill
Jenkins, Roy (2/17/2002)
Churchill: A Biography
Best, Geoffrey (3/31/2002)
Churchill: A Study in Greatness
Addison, Paul (4/24/2005)
Churchill: The Unexpected Hero
Sandys, Celia (5/8/2000)
Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive
Gilbert, Martin (3/12/2006)
Churchill and America
Langworth (editor), Richard (1/11/2009)
Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations
Hayward, Steven F. (8/11/1997)
Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity
Muller, James W. (3/13/2000)
Churchill's “Iron Curtain” Speech: Fifty Years Later
Larres, Klaus (1/5/2003)
Churchill's Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy
Valiunas, Algis (12/29/2002)
Churchill's Military Histories: A Rhetorical Study
Severgnini, Beppe (8/18/2002)
Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S.
McCarthy, Cormac (7/6/1998)
Cities of the Plain: (The Border Trilogy, Volume 3)
Lebedoff, David (4/27/1998)
Cleaning Up: The Story Behind the Biggest Legal Bonanza of Our Time
Simmons, Tracy Lee (12/14/2003)
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
Queenan, Joe (5/10/2009)
Closing Time: A Memoir
Ferguson, Niall (6/20/2004)
Colossus: The Price of America's Empire
Stoner, James R. (1/25/2004)
Common Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism
Pipes, Richard (9/24/2006)
Communism: A History
Shankman, Kimberly C. (4/10/2000)
Compromise and the Constitution: The Political Thought of Henry Clay
Perry, Mark (9/14/1998)
Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War
Sowell, Thomas (7/13/1998)
Conquests & Cultures
Sobel, Robert (7/20/1998)
Coolidge: An American Enigma
Murphy, Cait (4/22/2007)
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
McMurtry, Larry (3/1/1999)
Crazy Horse
Connerly, Ward (6/12/2000)
Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences
Johnson, Paul (5/7/2006)
Creators: From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney
Jaffa, Harry V. (3/29/2009)
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (50th Anniversary Edition)
McPherson, James M. (9/22/2002)
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
Remini, Robert (11/3/1997)
Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time
Furst, Alan (12/5/2004)
Dark Voyage: 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
Swain (editor), Carol M. (9/23/2007)
Debating Immigration
Peacock, Anthony A. (7/13/2008)
Deconstructing the Republic: Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Founders' Republicanism Reconsidered
Gioia, Ted (11/16/2008)
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
Masugi, Brian P. Janiskee & Ken (11/17/2002)
Democracy in California: Politics and Government in the Golden State
Manent, Pierre (11/11/2007)
Democracy Without Nations?: The Fate of Self-Government in Europe
Deneen, Patrick J. (3/11/2007)
Democracy's Literature: Politics and Fiction in America
Patterson, Robert (4/6/2003)
Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security
Kissinger, Henry (9/8/1997)
Diplomacy
Wood, Peter (3/23/2003)
Diversity: The Invention of a Concept
Alvis, John (8/18/1997)
Divine Purpose and Heroic Response in Homer and Virgil: The Political Plan of Zeus
Graglia, F. Carolyn (9/28/1998)
Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism
Wolters, Raymond (1/26/2003)
Du Bois and His Rivals
Morris, Edmund (11/15/1999)
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
Edwards, Lee (5/16/2004)
Educating for Liberty: The First Half-Century of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Donaldson, Scott (6/17/2007)
Edward Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life
Ostler, Nicholas (7/31/2005)
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Ritter, Scott (5/17/1999)
Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem -- Once and for All
Weaver, R. Kent (1/22/2001)
Ending Welfare As We Know It
Tucker, David (5/25/2008)
Enlightened Republicanism: A Study of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
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
Pitney, Jr., James W. Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch, and John J. (4/19/2009)
Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics
Jaffa, Harry V. (10/4/1999)
Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics
Pournelle, Larry Niven and Jerry (3/15/2009)
Escape from Hell
Johnson, Paul (5/21/2006)
Estados Unidos: La Historia
Gati, Charles (10/29/2006)
Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, And the 1956 Hungarian Revolt
Striner, Richard (4/9/2006)
Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery
Smith, Jean Edward (5/27/2007)
FDR
Powell, Jim (1/11/2004)
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
Bovard, James (8/6/2001)
Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years
Netanyahu, Benjamin (11/18/2001)
Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies can Defeat Terrorist Networks—2001 Edition
Cohen, Robert E. Wright and David J. (7/30/2006)
Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich
Kagan, Frederick (2/11/2007)
Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy
Pournelle, Jerry (5/24/2009)
Fires of Freedom
Gerber, Scott Douglas (5/10/1999)
First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas
Lukacs, John (12/27/1999)
Five Days in London: May 1940
Buckley, William F. (4/6/2008)
Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater
Ellis, Joseph J. (3/5/2001)
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Brookhiser, Richard (3/2/1998)
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington
Pestritto, Ronald J. (2/7/2000)
Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America
Helprin, Mark (8/7/2005)
Freddy and Fredericka
Myers, Peter C. (2/24/2008)
Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism
Bovard , James (3/29/1999)
Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
McDougall, Walter A. (4/4/2004)
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828
Barzun, Jacques (8/7/2000)
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (1500 to the Present)
Gress, David (12/7/1998)
From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents
Pressfield, Steven (1/18/1999)
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Broadwater, Jeff (10/1/2006)
George Mason: Forgotten Founder
Allen, W.B. (8/24/2008)
George Washington: America's First Progressive
Johnson, Paul (6/26/2005)
George Washington: The Founding Father
Brookhiser, Richard (5/18/2008)
George Washington on Leadership
Feulner, Doug Wilson and Edward J. (7/23/2006)
Getting America Right: The True Conservative Values America Needs Today
Buckley, Jr., William F. (3/9/2003)
Getting It Right
Munoz, Vincent Phillip (7/19/2009)
God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson
Riley, Naomi Schaefer (3/13/2005)
God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America
Nicolson, Adam (10/12/2008)
God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
Vedder, Richard (6/12/2005)
Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much
Ferrell, Robert H. (9/7/2008)
Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House
Hayward, Steven F. (10/9/2005)
Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders
Bowden, Mark (5/28/2006)
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
Allen, Carol M. Allen and William B. (7/27/2003)
Habits of Mind: Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher Education
Barone, Michael (5/22/2005)
Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future
Huber, Peter (8/14/2000)
Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto
Rowling, J.K. (12/13/1999)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Stewart, James B. (10/13/2002)
Heart of a Soldier: A Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11th
Muravchik, Joshua (5/19/2002)
Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
Mosher, Steven W. (4/16/2001)
Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World
Suri, Jeremi (12/30/2007)
Henry Kissinger and the American Century
Kaufman, Robert G. (11/6/2000)
Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics
Sikkenga, Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey (7/13/2003)
History of American Political Thought
Bergen, Peter L. (11/25/2001)
Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
Eberstadt, Mary (9/4/2005)
Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes
Mayer, Matt A. (10/25/2009)
Homeland Security ad Federalism: Protecting America from Outside the Beltway
Wilson, Douglas L. (12/6/1999)
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
Sandoval-Strausz, Andrew K. (12/16/2007)
Hotel: An American History
Howard, Hugh (12/21/2008)
Houses of the Founding Fathers
Wodehouse, P.G. (3/22/2009)
How Right You Are, Jeeves
Robinson, Peter (9/7/2003)
How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life
Stein, Mark (8/3/2008)
How the States Got Their Shapes
Murray, Charles (12/28/2003)
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950
Kass, Leon R. (2/9/2003)
Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics
Williams, Tony (8/31/2008)
Hurricane of Independence: The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution
Grant, Ruth Weissbourd (8/3/1998)
Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics
Wolfe, Tom (1/2/2005)
I Am Charlotte Simmons
Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Harvey (11/2/2003)
In Denial: Historians, Communism, and Espionage
Luce, Edward (2/25/2007)
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
Weinberger, Caspar W. (1/6/2002)
In the Arena: A Memoir of the 20th Century
Thompson, Mary V. (11/2/2008)
In the Hands of a Good Providence: Religion in the Life of George Washington
Das, Gurcharan (8/13/2001)
India Unbound
Brent, Jonathan (12/28/2008)
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
Troy, Tevi (6/9/2002)
Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians?
Dembski, William A. (1/24/2000)
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology
Gibson, Alan (8/27/2006)
Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates over the Origins and Foundations of the American Republic
Karsh, Efraim (4/2/2006)
Islamic Imperialism: A History
Rampersad, Arnold (2/16/1998)
Jackie Robinson: A Biography
Sheehan, Colleen A. (2/22/2009)
James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government
Harman, Claire (5/31/2009)
Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World
Onuf, Peter S. (3/12/2001)
Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood
McCullough, David (7/23/2001)
John Adams
Thompson, C. Bradley (3/1/1999)
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
Smith, Jean Edward (6/15/1998)
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
Morrison, Jeffrey H. (11/27/2005)
John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic
Herman, Arthur (8/21/2000)
Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator
Korda, Michael (10/22/2006)
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Foskett, Ken (8/28/2005)
Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas
Ellison, Ralph (8/16/1999)
Juneteenth: A Novel
Whalen, Thomas J. (6/11/2001)
Kennedy Versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race
Taubman, William (4/13/2003)
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Jones, Gerard (8/4/2002)
Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence
Bowden, Mark (10/21/2001)
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Shirley, Edward (11/17/1997)
Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran
Habeck, Mary (11/5/2006)
Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Idelogy and the War on Terror
Ferguson, Andrew (7/1/2007)
Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
Uhlmann, Michael M. (4/3/2000)
Last Rights?: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debated
Rabkin, Jeremy (7/3/2005)
Law Without Nations?: Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign States
Alschuler, Albert W. (7/9/2001)
Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes
Ravitch, Diane (10/9/2000)
Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms
Lowry, Rich (9/28/2003)
Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years
Behnegar, Nasser (8/21/2005)
Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics
Hannity, Sean (10/27/2002)
Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism
McDougall, Walter A. (10/6/1997)
Let the Sea Make A Noise: A History of the North A History of the North to MacArthur
Bolick, Clint (10/3/2004)
Leviathan: The Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty
Goldberg, Jonah (3/2/2008)
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Sleeper, Jim (11/9/1998)
Liberal Racism
Krause, Sharon R. (2/23/2003)
Liberalism With Honor
Chubb, Terry M. Moe and John E. (7/12/2009)
Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education
Fischer, David Hackett (10/24/2004)
Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas
Carwardine, Richard (1/15/2006)
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power
Guelzo, Allen C. (1/25/2009)
Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
Guelzo, Allen C. (2/3/2008)
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America
Epstein, Daniel Mark (12/19/2004)
Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
Holzer, Harold (4/18/2004)
Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President
Lehrman, Lewis E. (7/27/2008)
Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point
Vogel (eds.), John Simon, Harold Holzer, and Dawn (1/13/2008)
Lincoln Revisited: New Insights from the Lincoln Forum
Deutsch (editor), Kenneth L. (9/18/2005)
Lincoln's American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives
Farber, Daniel (7/25/2004)
Lincoln's Constitution
Guelzo, Allen (2/1/2004)
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America
White, Jr., Ronald C. (2/24/2002)
Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural
Harris, William C. (4/29/2007)
Lincoln's Rise to the Presidency
Morel, Lucas E. (5/22/2000)
Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government
Briggs, John Channing (5/15/2005)
Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered
Wilson, Douglas L. (12/3/2006)
Lincoln's Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words
Miller, William Lee (2/10/2002)
Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography
Perret, Geoffrey (4/25/2004)
Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief
McLean, Duncan (11/15/1999)
Lone Star Swing: On the Trail of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Miniter, Richard (9/14/2003)
Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror
Stotsky, Sandra (9/27/1999)
Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write, and Re
McWhorter, John (9/11/2000)
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
Webb, James (9/24/2001)
Lost Soldiers
Price, David (11/9/2003)
Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation
Rakove, Jack (1/10/2000)
Madison: Writings
Nuland, Sherwin B. (1/1/2006)
Maimonides
Berns, Walter (5/14/2001)
Making Patriots
Mansfield, Harvey C. (3/5/2006)
Manliness
Chang, Jung (2/26/2006)
Mao: The Unknown Story
Blundell, John (5/3/2009)
Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait of the Iron Lady
Churchill, Winston (12/1/2002)
Marlborough: Volume I
Levin, Mark R. (2/13/2005)
Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America
Hanson, Victor Davis (6/29/2003)
Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
Buckley, Jr., William J. (11/28/2004)
Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography
Pipes, Sally C. (9/26/2004)
Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health-Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer
Robinson, Matthew (3/10/2002)
Mobocracy: How the Media's Obsession with Polling Twists the News, Alters Elections, and Undermines Democracy
Lott, Jr., John R. (6/22/1998)
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
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
Agresto, John (3/18/2007)
Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions
Churchill, Winston (2/9/1998)
My Early Life: 1874-1904
Thomas, Clarence (10/7/2007)
My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir
Podhoretz, Norman (9/4/2000)
My Love Affair With America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative
Johnson, Paul (8/11/2002)
Napolean
Forte, David F. (9/13/1999)
Natural Law and Contemporary Public Policy:
Zuckert, Michael P. (2/23/1998)
Natural Rights and the New Republicanism
Arkes, Hadley (5/25/2003)
Natural Rights and the Right to Choose:
Ceaser, James W. (4/16/2006)
Nature and History in American Political Development: A Debate
Denton, Michael J. (10/11/1999)
Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe
Churchill, Winston S. (12/21/2003)
Never Give In: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
Viroli, Maurizio (6/4/2001)
Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli
Thernstrom, Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail (11/16/2003)
No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
Lowenthal, David (12/21/1998)
No Liberty for License: The Forgotten Logic of the First Amendment
West, Bing (12/18/2005)
No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
Powers, Richard Gid (9/7/1998)
Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism
Buruma, Avishai Margalit and Ian (8/15/2004)
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies
Kagan, Robert (5/11/2003)
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
Cannon, Lou (5/4/1998)
Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD
McCarry, Charles (7/10/2005)
Old Boys
Burk, Kathleen (11/23/2008)
Old World, New World: Great Britain and America From the Beginning
Lambakis, Steven (10/8/2001)
On the Edge of Earth: The Future of American Space Power
Fick, Nathaniel (12/4/2005)
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Schlueter, Nathan (3/16/2003)
One Dream or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King Jr.
Wilkinson, III, J. Harvie (4/6/1998)
One Nation Indivisible: How Ethnic Separatism Threatens America
Himmelfarb, Gertrude (2/28/2000)
One Nation, Two Cultures
Dole, Bob (5/29/2005)
One Soldier's Story: A Memoir
Dalrymple, Theodore (6/19/2005)
Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
Barone, Michael (7/8/2007)
Our First Revolution: The Remarkable Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
McWhorter, John (4/12/2009)
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English
Miller, Mark Molesky and John J. (11/14/2004)
Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disasterous Relationship with France
Fukuyama, Francis (4/21/2002)
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Bennett, William J. (10/27/1997)
Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems, and Speeches
Hewitt, Hugh (4/30/2006)
Painting the Map Red: The Fight to Create a Permanent Republican Majority
Milton, John (4/23/2006)
Paradise Lost
Allgor, Catherine (2/26/2001)
Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
Langguth, A.J. (7/14/1997)
Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution
Fischer, David Hackett (10/12/1998)
Paul Revere's Ride
Critchlow, Donald T. (3/26/2006)
Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade
Zuckert, Catherine H. (11/15/2009)
Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
Zvesper, John (3/1/2009)
Political Philosophy and Rhetoric: A Study of the Origins of American Party Politics
Pangle, Thomas L. (11/30/2003)
Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham
Read, James H. (3/19/2001)
Power Versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson
Timmerman, Kenneth R. (12/7/2003)
Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America
Taranto (editors), Leonard Leo and James (9/19/2004)
Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House
Novak, Robert D. (9/30/2007)
Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington
McDougall, Walter A. (8/25/1997)
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776
Pipes, Richard (6/14/1999)
Property and Freedom
Zuckert (editors), Thomas S. Engeman & Michael P. (2/12/2006)
Protestantism and the American Founding
Weaver, Russell (11/19/2006)
Questioning Keats: An Introduction to Applied Hermeneutics
Sienkiewicz, Henryk (12/26/2004)
Quo Vadis
Blight, David W. (9/29/2002)
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
Rampersad, Arnold (5/13/2007)
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Morel (editor), Lucas (2/29/2004)
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man
Edwards, Lee (6/10/2007)
Reading the Right Books: A Guide for the Intelligent Conservative
Anderson (Editors), Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin (10/5/2003)
Reagan: A Life in Letters
Skinner, Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson, Kiron K. (11/7/2004)
Reagan's Path to Victory: The Shaping of Ronald Reagan's Vision: Selected Writings
Shirley, Craig (2/6/2005)
Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All
Busch, Andrew E. (11/20/2005)
Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right
Schweizer, Peter (12/15/2002)
Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism
Barnes, Fred (3/19/2006)
Rebel-in-Chief: How George W. Bush Is Redefining the Conservative Movement and Transforming America
Ceasar, James W. (12/29/1997)
Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought
Nichols, Mary P. (2/8/1999)
Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen
Busch, James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. (5/8/2005)
Red Over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics
Caldwell, Christopher (8/2/2009)
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
Walling, Karl-Friedrich (10/25/1999)
Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government
McKenzie, ed., Richard (6/26/2000)
Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century
Allen, William B. (2/15/2009)
Rethinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Edmondson, Henry T. (4/11/2004)
Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism
Brookhiser, Richard (7/5/2009)
Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement
Moser, John E. (4/3/2005)
Right Turn: John T. Flynn And The Transformation Of American Liberalism
Crooker III, H.W. (7/26/1999)
Robert E. Lee On Leadership: Executive Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision
Moravec, Hans (2/1/1999)
Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
D'Souza, Dinesh (12/22/1997)
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader
Busch, Andrew E. (10/28/2001)
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom
Stafford, David (5/7/2001)
Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets
Dent, Nicholas (8/14/2005)
Rousseau
Decter, Midge (1/18/2004)
Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait
Malia, Martin (6/7/1999)
Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
Leavy, Jane (10/20/2002)
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
Garsten, Bryan (3/4/2007)
Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment
O'Shea, Stephen (7/2/2006)
Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World
Schippers, David P. (9/25/2000)
Sell Out: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment
Hamburger, Philip (7/20/2003)
Separation of Church and State
Ferling, John (10/23/2000)
Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution
Pinker, Susan (3/16/2008)
Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap
Nuttall, A.D. (5/20/2007)
Shakespeare the Thinker
Crawford, Matthew B. (6/14/2009)
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Ingraham, Laura (10/26/2003)
Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America
Noonan, Peggy (5/11/1998)
Simply Speaking: How to Communicate Your Ideas with Style, Substance, and Clarity
Oren, Michael B. (6/30/2002)
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Tucker, David (11/10/1997)
Skirmishes at the Edge of Empire: The United States and International Terrorism
Coulter, Ann (7/28/2002)
Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
Lendon, J.E. (8/6/2006)
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity
Jacoby, Tamar (11/23/1998)
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration
Anderson, Brian C. (5/1/2005)
South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias
Wills, Gary (3/6/2000)
St. Augustine
Service, Robert (6/5/2005)
Stalin: A Biography
Montefiore, Simon Sebag (5/23/2004)
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Brent, Vladimir Naumov and Jonathon (6/1/2003)
Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
Suro, Robert (10/5/1998)
Stangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration is Transforming America
Fund, John (10/17/2004)
Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
Craughwell, Thomas J. (7/15/2007)
Stealing Lincoln's Body
Lawler, Peter Augustine (1/22/2006)
Stuck with Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future
Forte, David F. (10/15/2001)
Studies in Islamic Law: Classical and Contemporary Application
Mylroie, Laurie (11/4/2001)
Study of Revenge: The First World Trade Center Attack and Saddam Hussein's War against America
Percoco, James A. (4/27/2008)
Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments
Cohen, Eliot A. (6/23/2002)
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
Buckley, Christopher (9/28/2008)
Supreme Courtship
Gaddis, John Lewis (2/15/2004)
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
Etcoff, Nancy (3/8/1999)
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
Reeb, Jr., Richard H. (12/20/1999)
Taking Journalism Seriously: “Objectivity” as a Partisan Cause
Rashid, Ahmed (9/30/2001)
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Allen, Danielle S. (9/12/2004)
Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown V. Board of Education
Goodwin, Doris Kearns (7/9/2006)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Gilder, George (11/13/2000)
Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
Berman, Paul (10/19/2003)
Terror and Liberalism
Harmon, Christopher C. (11/27/2000)
Terrorism Today
Anonymous,  (6/27/2004)
Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks,  (8/22/2004)
The 9/11 Commission Report
Kilcullen, David (4/26/2009)
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
Hayward, Steven F. (8/23/2009)
The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989
Hayward, Steven (8/19/2001)
The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Liberal Order, 1964-1980
Pestritto (editors), Thomas G. West and Ronald J. (9/21/2003)
The American Founding and the Social Compact
Wood, Gordon S. (9/5/2004)
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Bennett, James C. (2/27/2005)
The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century
Pitney, Jr., John J. (1/16/2001)
The Art of Political Warfare
Ferguson, Niall (12/14/2008)
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Kass, Leon R. (6/8/2003)
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
Bennett, William J. (7/21/1997)
The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
Bennett, William J. (11/11/2001)
The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family
MacDonald, Heather (2/19/2001)
The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society
Clark, William A. V. (4/26/1999)
The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities
Masugi (editors), Brian P. Janiskee & Ken (2/8/2004)
The California Republic: Institutions, Statesmanship, and Policies
Noonan, Peggy (10/2/2000)
The Case Against Hillary Clinton
Sharansky, Natan (1/30/2005)
The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
Faulkner, Robert (1/20/2008)
The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics
Rabkin, Jeremy (1/16/2005)
The Case for Sovereignty: Why the World Should Welcome American Independence
Ferguson, Niall (4/30/2001)
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
O'Rourke, P.J. (12/30/2001)
The CEO of the Sofa
Codevilla, Angelo M. (12/8/1997)
The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility
Manent, Pierre (12/14/1998)
The City of Man
Noll, Mark A. (11/26/2006)
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
Carrese, Paul O. (8/17/2003)
The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism
Gaddis, John Lewis (2/5/2006)
The Cold War: A New History
Cull, Nicholas J. (8/10/2008)
The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989
Odom, William E. (3/20/2000)
The Collapse of the Soviet Military
Hayes, Stephen F. (8/1/2004)
The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America
Lincoln, W. Bruce (9/16/2007)
The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians
Schneider, Gregory (4/5/2009)
The Conservative Century: From Reaction to Revolution
Edwards, Lee (5/3/1999)
The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America, from Robert Taft to Newt Gingrich
Allitt, Patrick (8/30/2009)
The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History
Tulis (editors), Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. (10/11/2009)
The Constitutional Presidency
Mayer, David N. (12/21/1998)
The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson
Lewis, Bernard (5/4/2003)
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
Kengor, Paul (2/4/2007)
The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
Bennett, William J. (9/21/1998)
The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals
Kleinerman, Benjamin A. (9/20/2009)
The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power
Lynch, Frederick R. (12/1/1997)
The Diversity Machine: The Drive to Change the "White Male Workplace"
Linn, Brian McAllister (1/6/2008)
The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War
Howell, Paul E. Peterson and William G. (6/2/2002)
The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools
Ehrman, John (2/19/2006)
The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan
Meredith, Robyn (10/21/2007)
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means to All of Us
White, Jr., Ronald C. (3/20/2005)
The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words
Webb, James (7/5/1999)
The Emperor's General
Gross, Martin L. (5/18/1998)
The End of Sanity: Social and Cultural Madness in America
Wheatcroft, Andrew (6/7/2009)
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
Edwards, Lee (4/10/2005)
The Essential Ronald Reagan: A Profile in Courage, Justice, and Wisdom
Linklater, Andro (8/17/2008)
The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity
Meredith, Martin (10/16/2005)
The Fate Of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to The Heart of Despair
Allen, W.B. (1/15/2001)
The Federalist Papers: A Commentary
Leebaert, Derek (12/22/2002)
The Fifty-Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory
Olson, Barbara (2/3/2002)
The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
Spalding, Elizabeth Edwards (5/14/2006)
The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, And the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism
Wattenberg, Caplow, Hicks & (2/12/2001)
The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide To Trends In America, 1900-2000
Keegan, John (6/21/1999)
The First World War
Furst, Alan (1/21/2007)
The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel
Shlaes, Amity (6/3/2007)
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
Kaminski, John P. (12/7/2008)
The Founders on the Founders: Word Portraits from the American Revolutionary Era
Zakaria, Fareed (4/20/2003)
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
Boritt, Gabor (12/10/2006)
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
Middlekauff, Robert (3/27/2005)
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763-1789
Tomlin, Caleb S. Cage and Gregory M. (8/9/2009)
The Gods of Diyala: Transfer of Command in Iraq
Rhodehamel, John (8/23/1999)
The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic
Weinstein, Allen (3/1/1999)
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America-The Stalin Era
Remini, Robert V. (7/16/2006)
The House: The History of the House of Representatives
Tennyson, Alfred Lord (8/13/2006)
The Lady of Shalott
Strassler (editor), Robert B. (12/9/2007)
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
Ravitch, Diane (5/18/2003)
The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
Lachman, Charles (11/9/2008)
The Last Lincolns: The Rise and Fall of a Great American Family
Felzenberg, Alvin S. (7/20/2008)
The Leaders We Deserved (And a Few We Didn't): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
Bostom, Andrew G. (10/23/2005)
The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
Fehrenbacher (editors), Harold Holzer and Don E. (2/8/2009)
The Lincoln Bicentennial Collection: 3 Volume Box Set
Wilson (editors), Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. (9/14/2008)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Gilmour, David (6/15/2003)
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
Eicher, David J. (1/13/2002)
The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War
de Alvarez , Leo Paul (1/17/1999)
The Machiavellian Enterprise: A Commentary on The Prince
Thomas, George (7/6/2008)
The Madisonian Constitution
Bearden, James Risen and Milton (7/6/2003)
The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown With the KGB
Hirsch, Jr., E.D. (11/8/2009)
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools
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
Wilford, John Noble (10/30/2000)
The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography—from Antiquity to the Space Age
Wilson, James Q. (5/26/2002)
The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families
Mandelbaum, Michael (7/4/2004)
The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball and What They See When They Do
Lord, Carnes (8/24/2003)
The Modern Prince: What Leaders Need to Know Now
Buckley, F.H. (7/24/2005)
The Morality of Laughter
Brann, Eva (7/11/2004)
The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings
Miller, William Ian (9/3/2001)
The Mystery of Courage
Jacobs, Alan (2/18/2007)
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Field (editors), Nathan Glazer and Cynthia R. (5/4/2008)
The National Mall: Rethinking Washington's Monumental Core
Zuckert, Michael P. (11/30/1998)
The Natural Rights Republic: Studies in the Foundation of the American Political Tradition
Barone, Michael (7/30/2001)
The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again
Berkowitz, Bruce (3/30/2003)
The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century
Friedman, George (3/8/2009)
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
Podhoretz, Norman (3/28/2004)
The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings From the 1950s Through the 1990s
Helprin, Mark (11/21/2004)
The Pacific and Other Stories
Furet, François (6/28/1999)
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
Storozynski, Alex (8/16/2009)
The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
Kagan, Donald (6/22/2003)
The Peloponnesian War
Barnett, Thomas P.M. (6/13/2004)
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas, Andrew Peyton (12/11/2005)
The People v. Harvard Law: How America's Oldest Law School Turned Its Back on Free Speech
Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch and James W. (6/17/2001)
The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election
Petigny, Alan (9/6/2009)
The Permissive Society: America, 1941-1965
Pangle, Lorraine Smith (11/25/2007)
The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin
Morrison, Jeffry H. (7/26/2009)
The Political Philosophy of George Washington
West, Jr., John G. (1/12/1998)
The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation
McWhorter, John (4/14/2002)
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
Ferrell, Robert H. (7/13/1998)
The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge
O'Sullivan, John (1/28/2007)
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