He was the most controversial American general in World War II—and also one of the most successful, courageous, and audacious. As a post-war administrator of defeated Germany, he sounded alarm bells about the dangers of Soviet encroachment into Europe. Politically, he was a lightning rod—an outspoken conservative who continually embarrassed his superiors with his uncensored, undiplomatic, and unrestrained comments to the press. He was General George S. Patton Jr., "Old Blood and Guts."

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By most accounts, the year 1964 was a disastrous one for conservatives. After a series of liberal legislative victories, Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater by the biggest margin since FDR's 1936 landslide, and the Democratic Party gained its biggest majorities since the glory days of the New Deal. Yet this seemingly decisive shift in public opinion was illusory -- and the triumphant liberals would soon overplay their hand. Meanwhile, the conservative movement was quietly gaining strength, aligning itself behind an inspiring new leader who, only sixteen years later, would bring it to national dominance. read more

In 1966, Ronald Reagan’s astounding million-vote victory in the California gubernatorial race against incumbent Pat Brown caught the liberal establishment by surprise. The entrenched Democratic party, which viewed Reagan with disdain, had mistakenly considered him more an annoyance than a political threat. Just how did conservatism deliver such a crushing blow to liberalism?

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Richard Brookhiser takes a hard look at our nation's first treasury secretary -- and thumbs his nose at the historical revisionists. He rescues Hamilton from Jefferson's shadow to rival him as the most crucial figure of our time.

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Fifty years after its original publication, Witness retains all of its searing impact. Whittaker Chambers’s harrowing account of his journey to hell and back – through espionage, treason, and terror – is, ultimately, a story of faith. read more

We are still caught in the lie that Darwinism is the only respectable scientific position -- and much of this pseudoscientific dogmatism rests on myths surrounding the enigmatic figure of Charles Darwin himself. Darwin would change the world with his theory -- but the popular perception of him as a disinterested scientist who arrived at this theory after painstaking and meticulous examination of the natural world is dead wrong. As Benjamin Wiker proves in The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin, Darwin did not originate the theory of evolution. Darwin's singular achievement was to dress it up with enough scientific trappings to make it plausible -- a goal which he pursued out of a fanatical desire to strike a blow at Christianity and eradicate the idea that human beings were created in the image of God. Wiker shows that Darwinism, despite the shrill denials of many of its supporters, does indeed lead to atheism -- because Darwin designed it to do so.

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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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Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, many attempts at explanation have been made -- but few if any have matched the analytical depth and original displayed by English philosopher and cultural commentator Roger Scruton. In The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat, Scruton argues that to comprehend and combat Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization. Some highlights of his argument: read more

Thus warned Hilaire Belloc in 1936 -- long before the Christian West permitted millions of Moslems to immigrate and proliferate, building thousands of new mosques in the United State and Europe, including a huge one in Rome itself a few years ago. Belloc's essay on Moslems, together with five important and meaty Catholic Encyclopedia articles by scholar Gabriel Oussani in 1908, comprise this valuable new book. read more

Born a congenital amputee -- missing his limbs below the elbows and knees -- 19-year-old college student Kyle Maynard has excelled at nearly everything he has attempted in life: from playing middle school football, to becoming a high school wrestling champion, to breaking world records in weightlifting. Now, in No Excuses: The Inspiring True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling and in Life, he tells how a devoted family, a strong religious faith, and a "No Excuses" attitude toward his handicaps helped him accomplish so much so early in his young life.

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As one of the most visible members of the Judiciary Committee that impeached Bill Clinton, Jim Rogan gained widespread attention -- and the enduring gratitude of conservatives -- for helping to spearhead the process. Though his liberal constituency responded by voting him out of office in 2000, Rogan remains a celebrated figure among conservatives. But this is just part of his amazing life story. Now, in Rough Edges, Rogan tells that story in what is certainly the funniest, most freewheeling -- and perhaps the most honest -- political memoir ever written.

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Distinguished historian Edward Larson deconstructs the popular historical myths surrounding the “Scopes Monkey Trial.” Learn what really happened in the summer of 1925 when the forces of creationism and evolutionism collided in the rural south. read more

Americans tend to lack a basic understanding of military matters, and no wonder: For nearly half a century, military history has become increasingly unfashionable on campus. "This state of neglect in our schools is profoundly troubling," writes classics professor and conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson. "Democratic citizenship requires knowledge of war -- and now, in the age of weapons of mass annihilation, more than ever." In The Father Of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern, Hanson helps to fill that gap in our knowledge with 13 of his finest recent essays on the subject. Revised and combined into a well- articulated whole, the chapters in this book explore such topics as how technology shapes warfare, what constitutes the "American way of war," and why even those who abhor war need to study military history. "War is the father and king of us all," Heraclitus wrote in ancient Greece -- and Hanson shows why it that is no less so today.

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One of the first things Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other totalitarians did was rewrite the histories of their nations, remaking the past to foster their control of the present. The American Left has done the same thing in our country: most American history books - both for students and adults -- are riddled with PC nonsense that makes the Founding Fathers over into racist slaveholders, the settlers of the West into genocidal land-stealers, and the welfare state into the harbinger of the ultimate triumph of liberalism.

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No war in American history is so shrouded in obfuscation and myth than the Vietnam War: "Vietnam" has entered into our national memory as a byword for disaster, usually accompanied by the word "quagmire," and the specter of the war has haunted our foreign policy discussions ever since. Left-leaning historians with a political agenda, aided and abetted by the liberal media, have convinced the world that for America, the Vietnam War was a tragic and dismal failure. Liberal pundits and leftist professors have been telling lies and getting away with it -- despite the fact that the war was televised at the time and has been the subject of innumerable books and studies.

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When he was tapped to accompany President Clinton and carry the nuclear "football" that contains the top-secret codes the President needs in case of nuclear war, Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson was proud and grateful. He had already put his life on the line for his country many times as he flew combat missions over the Persian Gulf and Bosnia, and he was honored to take on this new and awesome responsibility. read more

After winning an unlikely run for the California governor's office, stealing the show at the 2004 GOP Convention, and successfully challenging the entrenched powers that have brought the state of California to the brink of fiscal collapse, Arnold Schwarzenegger has already established himself as one of the notable political figures of the 21st century. This feat followed accomplishments just as impressive: a native of Austria with a heavy accent, he became the most successful bodybuilder in history, and (for a time) the biggest movie star in the world. Now, in Fantastic, bestselling author Laurence Leamer has produced the definitive biography of Arnold Schwarzenegger, telling the story of an immigrant of meager beginnings who seized the American dream beyond anyone's wildest expectations.

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Americans are so hungry to understand the real Bill Clinton that his autobiography sold more than a million copies in its first weeks. But for all its 957 pages, My Life is little more than an exercise in deception, distortion, and spin. Now, in Because He Could, former Clinton adviser and confidant Dick Morris reexamines, rebuts, and corrects every highlight of the former President's massive, exhausting, self-indulgent autobiography -- filling in the parts of the story that Clinton left unmentioned. Just as he did with Hillary Clinton in this year's bestselling Rewriting History, Morris shows why, four years out of office, Bill Clinton still can't be trusted.

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Teach your children about God’s plan for America during its early years of independence. read more

Jam-packed with firsthand narratives, diary entries, personal letters, and patriotic songs and poems, the "Source-Readers in American History" series truly lives up to its ambitious title. Originally published at the turn of the century as a 4-volume set, here, back in print and available to Club members ONLY are volumes 3 & 4: How Our Grandfathers Lived and The Romance of the Civil War.

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