Books from Encounter Books
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Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies that Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership
By Conrad Black... 63, 69, 87; and Bush agreement, 695; and East Pakistan, 608–9; independence movement, 405, 422; in Seven Years' War, 18–19, 32, 37 Indiana Territory, 130 Indians (Native Americans): Black Hawk War, 163; 721 FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE.
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Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity
By William P. MurchisonWilliam J. Bennett's Index of Leading Cultural Indicators informs us that whereas in 1960 there had been 73.5 marriages and 9.2 divorces for every married female, the mid-1990s brought corresponding rates of 55.7 and 21.
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Never Enough: America s Limitless Welfare State
By William Voegeli2D Arthur M. Schlesinger, jr., A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 191 7-1950 (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000), p. 124. m Arthur M. Schlesinger, ... Evan Thomas, "The Left Starts to Rethink Reagan," Newsweek, ...
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Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations : a William F. Buckley, Jr., Omnibus
By William F. Buckley, William Frank Buckley“However”—he might have gone on—“you cannot expect much help from the Establishment, because Jack Anderson is the kind of person who is not nowadays being ... That is the attitude today of people who should know better but don't.
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The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe
By Todd Huizinga2 Suzanne Daley and Nicholas Kulish, “Germany Fights Population Drop,” New York Times, August 13, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/ world/europe/germany-fights-population-drop.html?pagewanted=all&_ r=1. The German census of 2011 ...
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The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich, and Obama's America
By Bruce S. ThorntonAccording to former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, this distinction between national security and crim- inal intelligence gathering should not have caused any diffi- culties in the investigation of suspected terrorists, ...
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Neoconservatism: Why We Need It
By Douglas MurrayDouglas Murray takes a fresh look at the movement that replaced Great-Society liberalism, helped Ronald Reagan bring down the Wall, and provided the intellectual rationale for the Bush administration's War on Terror.
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The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe
By Heather Mac Donald... Bryant Jackson, Bob Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Phillip Jacobson, Michael P.: on deincarceration; on jail management; on misdemeanor enforcement jail; and California AB 109 (realignment); and California Prop.; health care in; ...
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The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order
By Donald J. Devine... Donald Kagan of Yale believes the United States to be weakened by an “unsubtle Christianity” with a strong strain of pacifism that “makes it hard for us to behave rationally when the rational thing is to be tough.
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The Fords: An American Epic
By Peter Collier, David HorowitzSoon after the Peace Ship fiasco, in fact, Liebold had hired a con artist named Stanley W. Finch to study the malign operations of “big money” in the United States. Formerly an aide to US. Attorney General George W. Wickersham during ...
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Who Needs the Fed?: What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish...
By John TamnyMichael D. Tanner, “War on Poverty at 50: Despite Trillions Spent, Poverty Won,” Cato Institute, January 8, 2014. Ibid. For more on TVA, see http://www.tva.com/abouttva/index.htm. Zachary A. Goldfarb, “Candidate Obama, Echoing Tea Party ...
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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
By Andrew C. McCarthyHe eventually acceded to Brennan's desire to be made the CIA's station chief in Saudi Arabia—an unusual move because Brennan's career had been spent in the intelligence analysis side of the agency's house, not its operations directorate ...
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The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America
By Andrew C McCarthyBrennan then went on to decry the “ignorant feelings” of Americans outraged at the jihadi attacks on American soil. And then he told Shahin and the audience of Muslim students that he “was very concerned after the attack in Fort Hood as ...
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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
By Andrew C. McCarthyThe real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
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Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
By Roger Lichtenberg SimonHe had read my work and was aware of my leftism, obviously, but I was still surprised that the first thing out of his mouth after saying hello was whether I knew who john Reed was. Sure, I quickly replied, mentioning Ten Days That Shook ...
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Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine: The Perils of Coming Out Conservative in Tinseltown
By Roger L. SimonHe had read my work and was aware of my leftism, obviously, but I was still surprised that the first thing out of his mouth after saying hello was whether I knew who john Reed was. Sure, I quickly replied, mentioning Ten Days That Shook ...
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Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick
By Peter CollierOne was with Neumann's friend Marcuse, who at that point was still working in the department's Central European section. She found him "very heavy-handed, very Germanic, very theoretical, very Marxist, and very pompous.
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Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?
By John FonteIn Towards a Feminist Theory of the State, MacKinnon wrote, "The rule of law and the rule of men are one thing, indivisible," because "State power, embodied in law, exists through society as male power." Therefore, "Male power is ...
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Dawn Over Baghdad: How the U.S. Military is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq
By Karl Zinsmeisterits steel plant. Because these are crucial industrial complexes and workplaces for thousands of men, 120 or so troopers from Bravo Company were stationed early last summer to live in their midst. By their mere armed daily presence they ...
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The People V. the Democratic Party
By Michael Walsh... leaving an estate valued at more than % million) and Charles F. Murphy – kept both the votes and the swag flowing. Murphy's private dining room upstairs at the ultra-fashionable Delmonico's restaurant was dubbed the Scar- let Room ...