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Dynamics of World History
by Christopher Dawson
Several major themes run through Dawson's work, including the interdependence of history and sociology; the need to go beyond nationalist history toward a history of the entire process of cultural development; the need to study not abstract Man but particular…
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Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge—A Reader
by John Lukacs
Among the most accomplished historians of his generation, John Lukacs has written more than twenty books and hundreds of essays and reviews. His scholarship encompasses the history of the modern age, focusing especially on the political, ideological, intellectual, and military…
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Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America
by Thomas G. West
Vindicating the Founders is a defense of the Founders' views and actions on slavery, women's rights, property rights, voting rights, and other controversial issues.
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The World of Marsilius of Padua
by Gerson Moreno-Riano
Perhaps no author of the Latin Middle Ages has been the subject of so much controversy and even vitriol than Marsilius of Padua (ca. 1275-1342/43). As author of the notorious heretical tract, the Defensor Pacis, Marsilius became an infamous figure…
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The Founders' Almanac : A Practical Guide to the Notable Events, Greatest Leaders and Most Eloquent Words of the American Founding
by Matthew Spalding
This easy-to-use reference features the people, ideas, and events that defined the birth of the American Republic. This book contains biographical essays on six of the Founding Fathers, such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, along with a calendar chronicling…
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Who Owns America?: A New Declaration of Independence
by Herbert Agar and Allen Tate
This volume is the classic sequel to I'll Take My Stand, the famous defense of the South's agrarian traditions. But whereas I'll Take My Stand was theoretical and sectional, Who Owns America? aimed to be concrete and national, and it…
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A Century of Horrors: Communism, Nazism, and the Uniqueness of the Shoah
by Alain Besançon, translated by Ralph C. Hancock and Nathaniel H. Hancock
The twentieth century bears the indelible imprint of both communism and Nazism. Today, it sometimes seems as if the former is all but forgotten, at least among Western elites, while our cultural memory of the latter is an inextinguishable fire.…
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Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson
by Bradley J. Birzer
English historian and Christian Humanist Christopher Dawson stood at the very center of the Catholic literary and intellectual revival in the four decades preceding Vatican II. One can find his influence throughout the Catholic Right of the 20th century. Poet…
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Critics of the Enlightenment: Readings in the French Counter-Revolutionary Tradition
by Christopher Olaf Blum, translated by Philippe Bénéton
For the Anglo-American world, Edmund Burke is the touchstone of counter-revolutionary thought, but in this volume, Christopher Olaf Blum shows that in attempting to vindicate the principles that had, at its best, animated the Old Regime, and in critiquing the…
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Freedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate
by George Carey
Ideas about the nature of liberty and a normative moral tradition lie at the heart of many contemporary political controversies. Because they are concerned with core principles, these debates can be vigorous and highly charged. Nowhere has this been more…
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Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies—And Why They Disappeared
by Allan C. Carlson
Freewheeling capitalism or collectivist communism: when it came to political-economic systems, did the twentieth century present any other choice? Does our century? In Third Ways, social historian Allan Carlson tells the story of how different thinkers from Bulgaria to Great…
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George Kennan: A Writing Life
by Lee Congdon
There were two George F. Kennans. The first was the well-known diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia-a tough political realist and man of the world who gained fame as the theorist of America's Cold War "containment" strategy.…
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The Enduring Edmund Burke: Bicentennial Essays
by Ian Crowe
This collection of essays commemorates the 200th anniversary of Burke's death by exploring his insights into political philosophy and human nature.
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The Superfluous Men: Conservative Critics of American Culture, 1900-1945
by Robert M. Crunden
The most neglected period in the history of American conservatism has been the first half of the twentieth century. Yet it was a period that laid the intellectual groundwork for many of the ideas central to political and social theory…
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Roots of Freedom: A Primer on Modern Liberty
by John W. Danford
Roots of Freedom is a primer on the thinkers and ideas that, over many centuries, have laid the foundations of free societies. Concepts such as the rule of law, independent judiciary, limited government, free markets, and individual autonomy are traced…
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The Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century: An Essay on Late Modernity
by Chantal Delsol
In The Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century, the sequel to Icarus Fallen, published by ISI Books in 2003, Chantal Delsol maintains that the age in which we live-late modernity-calls into question most of the truths and beliefs bequeathed to…
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Defending the Republic: Constitutional Morality in a Time of Crisis; Essays in Honor of George W. Carey
by Bruce Frohnen and Kenneth L. Grasso
From the earliest church covenants and compacts of the Puritans to the present day, Americans have seen their Constitution as a fundamental bulwark of liberty and limited government. This collection of essays, intended to honor and further understanding of the…
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The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to Be an Educated Human Being
by Richard M. Gamble
Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition-the Great Tradition-of education in the West is waiting…
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The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation
by Richard M. Gamble
"They died to save their country and they only saved the world." This line, the final one in G. K. Chesterton's poem, "The English Graves," serves for Richard M. Gamble as an interpretive key to a peculiarly important moment in…
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Vital Remnants: America's Founding and Western Tradition
by Gary L Gregg
This original collection is at once a work of impressive scholarship and a clarion call to those concerned about the future of the Republic. Vital Remnants revisits for a new generation the sources of America's greatness and suggests means to…
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Anamnesis: On the Theory of History and Politics (CW 6)
by Eric Voegelin
Volume 6 of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin offers the first translation of the full German text of Anamnesis published in 1966. The previous English edition, translated by Gerhart Niemeyer, focused largely on the sections of Anamnesis dealing directly…
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The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times
by Jeffrey Hart
National Review has been the leading conservative national magazine since it was founded in 1955, and in that capacity it has played a decisive role in shaping the conservative movement in the United States. In The Making of the American…
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From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States
by Paul Hollander
As a global phenomenon, the scale and character of communism is only now coming into focus. The opening of formerly inaccessible archives and landmark books such as The Black Book of Communism have helped to establish empirically the extent and…
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Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin
by Bill Kauffman
The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us-if he is known at all-as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris…
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Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists
by Bill Kauffman
In Look Homeward, America, Bill Kauffman introduces us to the reactionary radicals, front-porch anarchists, and traditionalist rebels who give American culture and politics its pith, vim, and life. Blending history, memoir, digressive literariness, and polemic, Kauffman provides fresh portaiture of…
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James Burnham and the Struggle for the World: A Life
by Daniel Kelly
James Burnham (1905-1987) was one of the most influential anticommunist figures of the Cold War era, as Daniel Kelly's fascinating biography makes clear. But like many anticommunists, Burnham first started on the other side. Beginning his career in 1929 as…
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Growing Up Guggenheim: A Personal History of a Family Enterprise
by Peter Lawson-Johnston
In Growing Up Guggenheim, Peter Lawson-Johnston-a Guggenheim himself, and the board president who oversaw the transformation of the renowned museum from a local New York institution to a global art venture-shares a personal memoir that includes intimate portraits of the…
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A Student's Guide to the Study of History
by John Lukacs
To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past-to remain ignorant of the deeds and writing of previous generations-is to bind oneself by the passions and prejudices of the age into…
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A Student's Guide to U.S. History
by Wilfred M. McClay
No nation in modern history has had a more powerful sense of its own distinctiveness than the United States. Yet few Americans understand the immensely varied sources of that sense and the fascinating debates that have always swirled around our…
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A Path Remembered: The Lives of Gerhart & Lucie Niemeyer
by Paul Niemeyer
Gerhart Niemeyer, who taught government at the University of Notre Dame for several decades, was one of the foremost conservative political theorists of the twentieth century. He was the author of seminal books and articles exploring the nature of Communist…
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Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement
by Justin Raimondo
In recent years a number of conservatives have wondered where the Right went wrong. One persuasive answer is provided by Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement. Justin Raimondo's captivating narrative is the story of…
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The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
by Philip Rieff
Since its publication in 1966, The Triumph of the Therapeutic has been hailed as a work of genuine brilliance, one of those books whose insights uncannily anticipate cultural developments and whose richness of argumentation reorients entire fields of inquiry. This…
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A Theory of Architecture
by Nikos A. Salingaros
More than a decade in the making, this is a textbook of architecture rich with design techniques and useful for every architect whether a first-year students or experienced practicing architects. The book teaches the reader how to design by adapting…
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Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America
by Craig Shirley
In his previous, widely praised book, Reagan's Revolution, Craig Shirley told the story of Ronald Reagan's insurgent campaign to wrest the GOP nomination from Gerald Ford in 1976. Now, in Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That…
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Steps Toward Restoration: The Consequences of Richard Weaver's Ideas
by Ted J. Smith
An appreciation of the modern philosopher and University of Chicago English professor, Richard M. Weaver, and an analysis of the continuing relevance of his best known work, Ideas Have Consequences. This 50th Anniversary essay collection is edited by Weaver's authorized…
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The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This reader, compiled by renowned Solzhenitsyn scholars Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney in collaboration with the Solzhenitsyn family, provides in one volume a rich and representative selection of Solzhenitsyn's voluminous works. Reproduced in their entirety are early…
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A Student's Guide to Music History
by R. J. Stove
R. J. Stove's A Student's Guide to Music History is a concise account, written for the intelligent lay reader, of classical music's development from the early Middle Ages onwards. Beginning with a discussion of Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century German…
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Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul
by Patrick A. Swan
In 1952, Random House published Whittaker Chambers's Witness. Not only did it immediately become a bestseller; it was recognized by many as one of the great spiritual autobiographies of the twentieth century. In Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism…
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Equality, Decadence, and Modernity: The Collected Essays of Stephen J. Tonsor
by Stephen Tonsor
Over the course of the past four decades Stephen J. Tonsor, professor emeritus of European intellectual history at the University of Michigan, has made a reputation within the conservative intellectual movement as a trenchant thinker, forceful writer, and witty-sometimes…
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Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence
by Bradley C. S. Watson
In Living Constitution, Dying Faith, political scientist and legal historian Bradley Watson examines how the contemporary embrace of the "living" Constitution has arisen from the radical transformation of American political thought. This transformation, brought about in the late nineteenth century…
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Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time
by Richard M. Weaver
This classic work by the author of Ideas Have Consequences boldly examines the intellectual roots of our current cultural crisis.
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Darwin Day In America: How Our Politics and Culture have been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
by John G. West
At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science-especially Darwinian biology-would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment. Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized…
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Family and Civilization
by Carle C. Zimmerman
Family and Civilization is the magnum opus of Carle Zimmerman, a distinguished sociologist who taught for many years at Harvard University. In this unjustly forgotten work Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall of different…