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Allen, Danielle S.
The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens

Allen, W.B.
The Federalist Papers: A Commentary

Allgor, Catherine
Parlor Politics : In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government

Alschuler, Albert W.
Law Without Values: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes

Anastaplo, George
Abraham Lincoln: A Constitutional Biography

Alvis, John
Divine Purpose and Heroic Response in Homer and Virgil: The Political Plan of Zeus

Alvis, John and Thomas West
Shakespeare as Political Thinker

Bailey, Ronald
The True State of the Planet

Banning, Lance
The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic

Barzun, Jacques
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life (1500 to the Present)

Belz, Herman
Abraham Lincoln, Constitutionalism, and Equal Rights in the Civil War Era

Bennett, William J.,
Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems, and Speeches

Bennett, William J.,
The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories

Bennett, William J.,
The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals

Berns, Walter
Making Patriots

Bernstein, Richard and Ross H. Munro
The Coming Conflict with China

Bobrick, Benson
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution

Bowden, Mark
Black Hawk Down

Bovard, James
Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Breinel, Eric
The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage & America's Traitors

Brookhiser, Richard
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington

Brookhiser, Richard
Alexander Hamilton, American

Burstein, Andrew
America's Jubilee: How in 1826 a Generation Remembered Fifty Years of Independence

Buckley, Jr. William F.
The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy

Cannon, Lou
Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD

Caplow, Hicks, & Wattenberg
The First Measured Century; An Illustrated Guide To Trends In America, 1900-2000

Ceaser, James W.
Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought

Ceaser, James W. and Andrew E. Busch
The Perfect Tie: The True Story of the 2000 Presidential Election

Chambers, Wittaker
Witness

Chatters, James C.
Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans

Churchill, Winston
My Early Life

Clark, William A. V.
The California Cauldron: Immigration and the Fortunes of Local Communities

Codevilla, Angelo M.
The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility

Connerly, Ward
Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences

Cowley, Robert
What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

Crittenden, Danielle
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman

Crocker, H.W. III
Robert E. Lee On Leadership: Executive Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision

D'Souza, Dinesh
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader

D'Souza, Dinesh
The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence

Dallek, Matthew
The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point

Dalzell, Robert F. and Lee Baldwin
George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America

Das, Gurcharan
India Unbound

De Alvarez, Leo Paul
The Machiavellian Enterprise: A Commentary on The Prince

Deaver, Michael K.
A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan

Dembski, William
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology

Denton, Michael J.
Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology reveal Purpose in the Universe

Dionne Jr., E.J. and Kristol, William
Bush V Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary

Edwards, Lee
The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America, from Robert Taft to Newt Gingrich

Ellis, Joseph J.
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Ellis, Joseph J. (Editor)
Thomas Jefferson : Genius of Liberty

Ellison, Ralph
Juneteenth: A Novel

Emmert, Kirk
Winston S. Churchill on Empire

Engeman, Thomas
Thomas Jefferson and the Politics of Nature

Etcoff, Nancy
Survival of the Prettiest

Ferguson, Niall
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000

Ferling, John
Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution

Ferrell, Robert H.
The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Fischer, David Hackett
Paul Revere's Ride

Ford, Michael Curtis
The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece

Forte, David F.
Natural Law and Contemporary Public Policy

French, Blaire
The Ticking Tenure Clock: An Academic Novel

Fromkin, David
The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century

Furet, François
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century

Garrity, Patrick J. and Matthew Spalding
A Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington's Farewell Address and the American Character

Gerber, Scott Douglas
First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas

Gertz, Bill
Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security

Gilbert, Martin
A History of the Twentieth Century (Vol. 2: 1933-1951)

Gilder, George
Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World

Gibbon, Edward
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Graglia, F. Carolyn
Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism

Grant, Ruth Weissbourd
Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics

Gregg, Gary L. II and Matthew SpaldingDavid
Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition

Gress, David
From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents

Gross, Martin
The End of Sanity: Social and Cultural Madness in America

Guelzo, Allen C.
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

Hanson, Victor David
Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

Hanson, Victor David
The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny

Harmon, Christopher
Terrorism Today

Haynes John Earl; Klehr, Harvey; Anderson, Kyrill M.
The Soviet World of American Communism

Haynes John Earl and Klehr, Harvey
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America

Hayward, Steven F.
Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity

Herman, Arthur
Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator

Hicks, Caplow & Wattenberg
The First Measured Century; An Illustrated Guide To Trends In America, 1900-2000

Himmelfarb, Gertrude
One Nation, Two Cultures

Hirsch, Jr. E. D.
The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them

Huber, Peter
Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists — A Conservative Manifesto

Hughes, Robert
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

Jacoby, Tamar
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration

Jaffa, Harry V.
Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics

Jaffa, Harry V.
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

Johnson, Paul
A History of the American People

Kagan, Robert
A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990

Kagan, Robert and Kristol, William
Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy

Kass, Amy A. & Leon R.
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying

Kaufman, Robert G.
Henry Jackson: A Life in Politics

Kesler, Charles
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay with New Introduction and Notes by Charles R. Kesler

Keegan, John
The First World War

Kissinger, Henry
Diplomacy

Kors, Alan Charles and Silvergate, Harvey A.
The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses

Kristol, William and Dionne Jr., E.J.
Bush V Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary

Kristol, William and Kagan, Robert
Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy

Langguth, A.J.
Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution

Lebedoff, David
Cleaning Up: The Story Behind the Biggest Legal Bonanza of Our Time

Lieberman, Myron
The Teachers' Unions: How the NEA and AFT Sabotage Reform and Hold Students, Parents, Teachers, and Taxpayers Hostage to Bureaucracy

Lieven, Anatol
Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power

Lott, John R.
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws

Lowenthal, David
No Liberty for License: The Forgotten Logic of the First Amendment

Lukacs, John
Five Days in London: May 1940

Lynch, Frederick R.
The Diversity Machine: The Drive to Change the "White Male Workplace"

Mac Donald, Heather
The Burden of Bad Ideas; How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society

Malia, Martin
Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum

Manent, Pierre
The City of Man

Mansfield, Harvey C.
Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power

Mayer, David N.
The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson

Mayhew, Robert
Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic

McCarthy, Cormac
Cities of the Plain

McCullough, David
John Adams

McDougall, Walter A.
Let the Sea Make a Noise...

McDougall, Walter A.
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776

McKenzie, Richard
Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century

McLean, Duncan
Lone Star Swing: On the Trail of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

McMurtry, Larry
Crazy Horse

McWhorter, John H.
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

Miller, John J.
The Unmaking of Americans: How Multiculturalism Has Undermined America's Assimilation Ethic

Moravec, Hans
Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind

Morel, Lucas E.
Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-Government

Morris, Edmund
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Muller, James
Churchill's “Iron Curtain” Speech: Fifty Years Later

Newell, Waller R.
What Is A Man?: 3,000 Years of Wisdom on the Art of Manly Virtue

Nichols, Mary P.
Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen

Noonan, Peggy
Simply Speaking: How to Communicate Your Ideas with Style, Substance, and Clarity

Noonan, Peggy
The Case Against Hillary Clinton

Odom, William
The Collapse of the Soviet Military

Onuf, Peter S.
Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood

Pangle, Thomas & Ahrensdorf, Peter
Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace

Perlstein, Rick
Before the Storm : Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Perry, Mark
Conceived in Liberty: Joshua Chamberlain, William Oates, and the American Civil War

Pestritto, Ronald J.
Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America

Pipes, Richard
Property and Freedom

Pitney, John J., Jr.
The Art of Political Warfare

Podhoretz, Norman
My Love Affair with America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative

Posner, Richard
An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton

Pournelle, Jerry; Niven, Larry
The Mote in God's Eye

Pournelle, Jerry; Niven, Larry
The Burning City

Powers, Richard Gid
Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism

Pressfield, Steven
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

Pressfield, Steven
Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War

Rampersad, Arnold
Jackie Robinson: A Biography

Rakove, Jack
Madison: Writings

Ravitch, Diane
Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms

Read, James
Power Versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson

Reeb, Richard
Taking Journalism Seriously: “Objectivity” as a Partisan Cause

Rehnquist, William H.
All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime

Remini, Robert
Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time

Rhodehamel, John
The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic

Ritter, Scott
Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem -- Once and for All

Roberts, J.M.
A History of Europe

Romerstein, Herbert
The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage & America's Traitors

Rosen, Gary
American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding

Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Sandys, Celia
Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive

Schippers, David
Sell Out: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment

Shalit, Wendy
A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

Shankman, Kimberly
Compromise and the Constitution: The Political Thought of Henry Clay

Shattan, Joseph
Architect's of Victory: Six Heroes of the Cold War

Shirley, Edward
Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran

Silvergate, Harvey A. and Kors, Alan Charles
The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses

Simpson, Brooks D.
Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865

Skinner, Anderson, & Anderson
Reagan, In His Own hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America

Sleeper, Jim
Liberal Racism

Slotkin, Richard
Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln

Sobel, Robert
Coolidge: An American Enigma

Sommers, Christina Hoff
The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men

Sowell, Thomas
Conquests & Cultures

Smith, Bradley A.
Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform

Smith, Jean Edward
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

Stafford, David
Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets

Steele, Shelby
A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America

Stotsky, Sandra
Losing Our Language: How Multicultural Classroom Instruction Is Undermining Our Children's Ability to Read, Write, and Reason

Suro, Robert
Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration is Transforming America

Tanenhaus, Sam
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

Teixeira, Ruy and Joel Rogers
America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters

Thernstrom, Abilgail and Stephen
America in Black and White

Thomas, Hugh
The Slave Trade

Thompson, C. Bradley
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty

Thompson, C. Bradley
The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams

de Tocqueville, Alexis
Democracy in America

Tucker, David
Skirmishes at the Edge of Empire:The United States and International Terrorism

Uhlmann, Michael
Last Rights?: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debated

Viroli, Maurizio
Niccolo's Smile; A Biography of Machiavelli

Viteritti, Joseph
Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society

Walling, Karl-Friedrich
Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government

Warren, Robert Penn
All the King's Men

Wattenberg, Hicks & Caplow
The First Measured Century; An Illustrated Guide To Trends In America, 1900-2000

Weaver, R. Kent
Ending Welfare As We Know It

Webb, James
The Emperor's General

Weinstein, Allen
The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America-The Stalin Era

Weisberger, Bernard A.
America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the Revolutionary Election of 1800

West, John G., Jr.
The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation

West, Thomas G.
Vindicating the Founders

Whalen, Thomas J.
Kenndey Versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race

Wilford, John Noble
The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography—from Antiquity to the Space Age

Wilkinson, J. Harvie
One Nation Indivisible: How Ethnic Separatism Threatens America

Will, George F.
Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose and Other Reflections on Baseball

Wills, Gary
St. Augustine

Wilson, Douglas L.
Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln

Woodson, Robert L.
The Triumphs of Joseph: How Today's Community Healers Are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods

Wurmser, David
Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein

Yarbough, Jean M.
American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People

Zak, Michael
Back to Basics for the Republican Party

Zuckert, Michael P.
The Natural Rights Republic

Zuckert, Michael P.
Natural Rights and the New Republicanism


 


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