Where we gather the landmark books of our time. (Updates will be signaled by posts on our blog.)
The must read for anyone who truly wants to understand the life and achievements of the most influential public figure of our time. A remarkable life story from a modest childhood in the Alaskan frontier to national and international fame.
In her own powerful words, Sarah Palin takes us on a journey into her most vibrant convictions, and delivers the poignant tale of a true American patriot abused by the political establishment and the Liberal Media Elite.
Discover the truth behind the scenes of the 2008 presidential campaign. The cynical attitude of the McCain campaign, the mischievousness of Katie Couric, the lies about her wardrobe and countless other humiliations that were inflicted on her.
Having suffered defeat through no fault of her own, she goes into a retreat to gather her thoughts and evaluate what is best for her family, her state and her country. Having graciously resigned from her office as Governor of Alaska to better serve her country, she brilliantly overcomes her grief to deliver what Rush Limbaugh called “one of the best policy books I’ve ever read”.
Matthew Continetti: The Persecution of Sarah Palin
An insightful and powerfully written book which sets new standards of excellence in investigative journalism.
Discover the network of powerful political and media interests who coalesced to stop, temporarily, the ascent of the former Alaskan Governor to the highest office in the land.
Fully referenced and documented (names are named), this investigation account is a page turner. Once you’ve opened it, you won’t be able to put it down before the final page.
The extent of Matthew Continetti’s talent and work ethic leap from every page of this fascinating account of the Liberal Media Elite’s conspiracy to try to take down the most influential public figure of our time.
Few writers could have pulled off the feat of publishing a remake of Thomas Paine’s eponymous masterpiece. Glenn Beck succeeds brilliantly, revealing himself as being a raw literary talent. The insight and creativity of his writing matches that of his TV shows.
Unhindered by the politically correct and the shackles a higher education would have put on his imagination and observation skills, he delivers an inspiring manifesto on individual freedom whose insight matches that of our glorious Founding Fathers.
Not since the 18th century has someone been able to synthesize in a clear and accessible way the desire of the populace for freedom and liberty. He captures with vivid accuracy the sad state our institutions have grown into, and provides everyday tips to reconquer our individual rights from an out-of-control government.
David Horowitz: Unholy Alliance, Radical Islam and the American Left
First published in 2004 this book is ever more mandatory reading given that the left has stolen the White House. It gives a frightening look at Radical Islam and the way the American Left courts them. The obvious conclusion: the left hates America more than the terrorists do.
David Horowitz writes and speaks with a passion and an urgency that hearkens back to his days as a propagandist for the left. He is no less a passionate advocate today on the right. Having made an Augustinian conversion, he is a credible witness to the insidious evil that drives the left’s ambitions and steers it against America’s interests. This book exposes the Susan Sontags and Barbara Kingsolvers for their anti-American agenda, but, more substantially, demonstrates clearly and patiently just how the American left openly advocates for the enemy. Horowitz can and should be forgiven for his passion and urgency. The premise of this book is explosive and will enrage the left, but Horowitz has the passion of the converted and of those who have witnessed evil in the trenches, and he is fearless in presenting the truth. This book joins his oeuvre as a call to arms for thoughtful conservative thinkers who rightly fear, in the words of Paul Johnson, “the total breakdown of order, the eclipse of democracy, and the defeat of the rule of law”.
A limited preview is available online here.
Jonah Goldberg: Liberal Fascism
“Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?
“Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning” offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler’s National Socialism and Mussolini’s Fascism.
Fascism was an international movement that appeared in different forms in different countries, depending on the vagaries of national culture and temperament. In Germany, fascism appeared as genocidal racist nationalism. In America, it took a “friendlier,” more liberal form. The modern heirs of this “friendly fascist” tradition include the New York Times, the Democratic Party, the Ivy League professoriate, and the liberals of Hollywood. The quintessential Liberal Fascist isn’t an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore.
These assertions may sound strange to modern ears, but that is because we have forgotten what fascism is. In this angry, funny, smart, contentious book, Jonah Goldberg turns our preconceptions inside out and shows us the true meaning of Liberal Fascism.
Lyle Rossiter: The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness
Just when liberal-leftists thought it was finally “their time” to lead center-right America into a stifling socialist utopia, a veteran psychiatrist is making a powerful case that the “hope-and-change” ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.
The Liberal Mind is the first systematic analysis of the political madness that now threatens to destroy the West’s greatest achievement: the American dream of civilized liberty. In his penetrating analysis, Dr. Rossiter reveals modern liberalism’s assaults on: The freedom of adults to make good lives for themselves by cooperating with others, The ability of families to raise children to be self-reliant and mutual, and The morals, rights and laws that protect our freedoms. Modern liberalism’s irrationality can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche. The Liberal Mind reveals the madness of the modern liberal for what it is: a massive transference neurosis acted out in the world’s political arenas, with devastating effects on the institutions of liberty.
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