In this fascinating work, historian John Julian Norwich examines how nine of Shakespeare’s plays merged actual fact and poetic license. Norwich’s entrancing conclusions will likely keep historians (and Shakespeare buffs) up late at night. As the Kirkus reviewer explains, Norwich “uses his immense knowledge of English and European history to illuminate the historical background of the plays and to offer an intriguing look at England in the years of Shakespeare’s writing. Norwich’s analysis of Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Richard III emphasizes factors Shakespeare added for dramatic effect and his equally strategic omissions.” read more

Few contemporary Americans know that James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), best known for his creation of Natty Bumppo and the Leatherstocking Tales, also wrote profound social criticism of the Jacksonian era. Yet, while his three political works -- Notions of the Americans, A Letter to His Countrymen, and The American Democrat -- come from a distinct era of American history, Cooper's thoughts on the Constitution, limited government, the nature and abuses of political power, and the importance of morality and religion to a democracy, remain as relevant today as they were in the 1820s and 1830s. This edition, the latest installment in the Club's Conservative Leadership Series, is the first to combine all three works -- the entirety of Letter and The American Democrat, and numerous excerpts from Notions. read more

As Islamic terrorists took advantage of lax immigration policies to embed themselves deeply into American society and operate beneath law-enforcement radar, what was the liberal press doing? Just what you'd expect: spiking negative stories about immigration and pooh-poohing the threat posed by America's all-but nonexistent border controls - in a relentless quest to promote multiculturalism and diversity. read more

Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the greatest literary figures of all time. Dostoevsky's intense struggle with the question of God is presented in the famous “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” in The Brothers Karamazov. In this unparalleled interpretation of the Grand Inquisitor, Ellis Sandoz combines literary criticism with political philosophy to place Dostoevsky squarely in the context of his day and culture as a religious thinker. Dostoevsky has often been regarded as a prophet foretelling the rise of totalitarian socialism in Russia, but his political vision had deep spiritual roots. His recognition that atheistic materialism had gripped the mind of modern man moved him to craft a fiction that resisted the secularization of existence. read more

From the acclaimed author of The Virginian comes this classic narrative about life in the post Civil-War South. Using Charleston, South Carolina (renamed Kings Port) as his backdrop, Owen Wister paints a compelling portrait of a southern culture seeking to move forward in the aftermath of debilitating warfare and reconcile with a vastly different northern elite read more

All across America, young warriors for liberty are springing up, unwilling to fall into lockstep with the liberal ideology pervading campuses throughout our land. With “fire in their bellies and quills in their hands,” these passionate, truth-seeking students are forming independent campus publications that have become the most important voice of our times -- the conservative counterculture taking on the left-wing orthodoxy in the battle of ideas. They are the Sam Adams and Patrick Henrys of our era, as student Morgan N. Knull of the Wabash Commentary points out in one of the book’s many inspiring essays: “In the years before the Liberty Bell sounded a call to arms, patriots flooded newspapers and town squares with pleas for independence, sparking debate and influencing public opinion. They planted the philosophical roots for the United States...Independent papers serve as the conscience of schools, the guardian of traditions, and the voice of reason amidst the rot of higher education.” read more

Orestes Brownson's 1865 book, The American Republic, ranks with The Federalist and Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America as an indispensable analysis of the American experiment in republican self-government. Reproduced here for the first time in a manner worthy of its importance, replete with its first comprehensive index, this neglected American classic is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the "constitution, tendencies and destiny" of the American regime.

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It's bad enough when celebrity fools like Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon use their public pulpits to inflict their fatuous, ignorant liberalism on the rest of us. But when they do, it's easy for sensible conservatives to tune them out. Not so easy to avoid is the insidious propaganda that is now pouring out of Hollywood: politically charged films, distorted documentaries, and skewed docudramas sugarcoat the bitter pill of liberalism so that Americans will swallow it more easily. Hollywood elites are doing their best to infect Americans with liberal ideas before they even notice what's going on. But in Hollywood Nation, bestselling author and media critic James Hirsen exposes their sinister game -- and helps you to be on your guard against this subtle and often not-so-subtle brainwashing.

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People weren't accustomed to books like this in 1951. Our great universities were treated like national monuments. How dare a recent graduate charge Yale -- then celebrating its 250th birthday -- with hostility to Christianity and free enterprise? read more

"As I survey the political, economic, moral and social landscape of America," says conservative radio talk-show host Jerry Doyle, "I'm left wondering where my country, the country I knew, has gone." Many of our biggest private companies, he points out, are now owned by the federal government. Our banking system has been for the most part nationalized. Our government is inflating the currency, running up unsustainable deficits, and taxing us at record rates. Our military heroes have been torn down with accusations of murder, torture and abuse, while bottom- feeders are held up as champions. Meanwhile, our celebrity- obsessed media is asleep at the wheel. "Have you seen my country lately?" asks Doyle. "If you have, please let me know where it is -- I'd like to go there." Now, in Have You Seen My Country Lately?, Doyle shows us how America lost her way -- and how we can find our way back.

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They did it to Dan Quayle, they did it to George W. Bush, and they've done it to numerous other conservative politicians: liberal media talking heads and late-night comedians chortle repeatedly and relentlessly over their flubs, their gaffes, their errors -- and their alleged scandals, incompetence, and stupidity. The plan is to get the whole country laughing at the victim of this tactic, so that his effectiveness on the national stage is ended, and his political career in ruins. It worked with Quayle, and severely damaged Bush. But every now and then a conservative politician emerges who is courageous and intelligent enough to defeat this nasty and brutal assault: one of them was Ronald Reagan, who trounced the liberal media in 1980 and 1984, and whose memory has long since transcended the "amiable dunce" he was portrayed as in elite media myth.

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Robert Nisbet, a conservative sociologist who lived from 1913 to 1996, anticipated by almost 50 years what is currently being said by academics and politicians who bemoan the demise of community. Now Brad Lowell Stone, a leading authority on Nisbet’s life and work, offers a close and clear exposition of his worldview, as well as a systematic survey of his contributions to the conservative movement. Nisbet’s writings, says Stone, “are an excellent place to start when persons are serious about the truths of our social world and when they seek guidance as to how they might better it.”

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They did it to Dan Quayle, they did it to George W. Bush, and they've done it to numerous other conservative politicians: liberal media talking heads and late-night comedians chortle repeatedly and relentlessly over their flubs, their gaffes, their errors -- and their alleged scandals, incompetence, and stupidity. The plan is to get the whole country laughing at the victim of this tactic, so that his effectiveness on the national stage is ended, and his political career in ruins. It worked with Quayle, and severely damaged Bush. But every now and then a conservative politician emerges who is courageous and intelligent enough to defeat this nasty and brutal assault: one of them was Ronald Reagan, who trounced the liberal media in 1980 and 1984, and whose memory has long since transcended the "amiable dunce" he was portrayed as in elite media myth.

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"Never in my memory," says veteran journalist Bernard Goldberg, "were so many journalists so intent on effecting change as they were during the campaign of 2008." Sure, mainstream journalists always root for the Democrat -- Richard Nixon complained of media bias as long ago as his presidential campaign against John F. Kennedy in 1960. But in 2008 it went beyond that. In A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media, Goldberg shows that this time journalists were not satisfied merely being partisan witnesses to history.

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More than a crime, murder has become big business. An entire industry depends on the steady drumbeat of horror that starts up at the first signs that a pretty white girl is missing. Suddenly, law enforcement's difficult task is made worse by media carnival barkers who cavalierly tamper with witnesses, throw up false leads, and corrupt justice in pursuit of the "story."

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As the first decade of the 21st century nears its end, there is ever more evidence to suggest that, thanks to global warming, the world may be heading towards an unprecedented catastrophe. But it is not the one which has been so widely and noisily predicted by the likes of Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. The real disaster to be brought about by global warming, writes Christopher Booker, is not the technicolor apocalypse promised by Gore and his many allies -- melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, hurricanes, droughts, mass-extinctions. It will be the result of all those measures being proposed by the world's politicians in the hope that they can avert a nightmare scenario which, as many experts now believe, was never going to materialize anyway.

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For the first time in over a century, the essential political writings of one of the nineteenth century's greatest orators -- and one of America's most impressive conservatives -- are now available in a collector's-quality hardcover edition. read more

Popularly known as “The Federalist Papers,” The Federalist (as originally titled) is a collection of anonymous essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, meant to drum up popular support for the proposed Constitution. The text in this edition is taken from the 1864 version edited by John Church Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton’s fourth son. read more

No book has done more to instruct, enlighten, and inform conservatives about economics that Adam Smith’s undisputed classic, The Wealth of Nations. Published in 1776, it was the intellectual counterpart of the volleys fired at Lexington and Concord – a stirring cry for economic freedom that resonates to this day. It is the very basis for the thoughts of contemporary conservative economists like Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell. read more

In this masterful, classic exposition of the original principles of American government, James Burnham takes a look at Congress in the American political tradition and the Congress of the 20th century. read more