Subject: Politics

Catch the Burning Flag: Speeches and Random Observations By Henry J. Hyde
216 pages | ISBN 978-0-975899-8-16
Retail Price: $22.95



Catch the Burning Flag: Speeches and Random Observations

A giant in stature and influence, the late Henry Hyde’s defense of freedom, justice, and the sanctity of innocent human life left a powerful legacy on Capitol Hill and around the world. Catch the Burning Flag: Speeches and Random Observations is a handsome hardcover collection that captures the most important thoughts and deepest reflections by the great conservative, renowned for decades as the House of Representative’s most persuasive orator. A must for your library, Catch the Burning Flag includes Hyde’s most powerful speeches (with his own insightful commentary) on a range of topics, from the Clinton impeachment trials, term limits, and abortion to flag burning, the Iran-Contra affair, and the fate of Democracy.

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Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest By John G. West
160 pages | ISBN 978-0-979014-10-9
Retail Price: $14.95



Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest

While conservatives are presumed to be critical of Darwin’s theory, many on the right, such as George Will, James Q. Wilson, and Larry Arnhart, have mounted a vigorous defense of Darwinism. As Discovery Institute’s John West explains in his book, Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest, their attempts to reconcile conservatism [...]

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Educating for Liberty: The Best of Imprimis, 1972-2002 By
330 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-55-1
Retail Price: $25.00



Educating for Liberty: The Best of Imprimis, 1972-2002

This volume includes thirty speeches from the first three decades of Imprimis, the national speech digest of Hillsdale College. Authors include Larry P. Arnn, Russell Kirk, Lynne V. Cheney, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Edwin Meese III, Mark Helprin, Ronald Reagan, George Gilder, John Stossel, Malcolm Muggeridge, Michael Novak, Michael Medved, [...]

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Global Greens: Inside the International Environmental Establishment By James M. Sheehan
212 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-00-0
Retail Price: $25.00



Global Greens: Inside the International Environmental Establishment

Published in 1998, Global Greens narrates the story of international environmental groups in world affairs. It examines how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) work with the United Nations and other international organizations to promote environmentalist policies and treaties. To understand many of the current foreign policy controversies it is increasingly important to [...]

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Government Is the Problem: Memoirs of Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Reformer By Robert B. Carleson
186 pages | ISBN 978-0-978650-23-0
Retail Price: $25.00



Government Is the Problem: Memoirs of Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Reformer

When Barack Obama with great fanfare signed the 2009 stimulus bill, he quietly gutted America’s most successful domestic policy achievement—the 1996 welfare reform. This revolutionary policy had freed millions of Americans from the shackles of dependency. There was no legitimate reason to undo what had succeeded, and the moral and [...]

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Guide to Nonprofit Advocacy By James Dellinger
178 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-13-0


Guide to Nonprofit Advocacy

Published in 2008, the Capital Research Center’s Guide to Nonprofit Advocacy is a directory of over one hundred of the most prominent nonprofit public interest and political advocacy groups in America, both liberal and conservative. Each entry contains contact information, annual revenues, and bullet points of politically noteworthy activities. While [...]

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Here, There, & Everywhere By Jay Nordlinger
523 pages | ISBN 978-0-975899-82-3
Retail Price: $24.95



Here, There, & Everywhere

As the author says in his preface, Here, There, & Everywhere is a “grab bag of a book,” containing almost 100 pieces on a multiplicity of subjects. Paul Johnson calls Jay Nordingler “one of the most versatile and pungent writers in America. And Mark Steyn says that this collection is “a virtuoso display.”

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Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education By Larry P. Arnn
117 pages | ISBN 978-0-916308-00-1
Retail Price: $19.95



Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education

Larry P. Arnn, the President of Hillsdale College, traces the history of education from the founding of the U.S. Office of Education (based on the Prussian system) in 1869 to the Higher Education Act of 1965 and its subsequent reauthorizations, to contemporary legislation. He connects these changes to fundamental shifts [...]

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Mustard Seeds: A Conservative Becomes a Catholic By L. Brent Bozell
414 pages | ISBN 978-0-931888-73-1
Retail Price: $16.00



Mustard Seeds: A Conservative Becomes a Catholic

Mustard Seeds is the journal of a remarkable spiritual odyssey, the origin and destination points of which are identified in the volume’s subtitle. By the mid-1960s, Brent Bozell had contributed as much any individual to the conservative movement’s capture of the Republican Party. But long before that movement’s apogee in [...]

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Return to Charity?: Philanthropy and the Welfare State By Martin Morse Wooster
63 pages | ISBN 978-1-892934-05-5
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Return to Charity?: Philanthropy and the Welfare State

Return to Charity?: Philanthropy and the Welfare State, by Martin Morse Wooster, clearly explains how the Victorian idea of charity for the poor was replaced by twentieth century social concepts of poverty and social welfare, which culminated in the “Great Society” welfare entitlement programs of the 196os. Wooster also identifies [...]

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