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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Fighting to send arms to Saddam, resisting post-9/11 attempts to toughen visa requirements, struggling to keep American parents from rescuing their kidnapped kids in foreign countries, doing everything it can to shut down the Iraqi democracy movement -- amazingly enough, this is the record of the U.S. State Department, an often out-of-control organization that acts at odds with our nation's best interests more often than most Americans realize.

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So says Peter Hitchens, who in the last three decades has seen the England of his youth vanish without a trace — only to be replaced by Tony Blair’s “Cool Britannia,” an internationalist welfare state brimming with ignorance and contempt for the glories of British civilization. In Abolition of Britain,details how it happened; in doing so, he reveals the Left’s full agenda for the United States.

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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

That's the assessment of Robert Jervis, a past president of the American Political Science Association, on J. Bowyer Bell's Murders on the Nile: The World Trade Center and Global Terror. Bell here lays bare the root causes of the Islamic discontent. His sweeping and fascinating account shows how the fires of modern Islamic terrorism were kindled in Egypt over one hundred years ago, and since then have been stoked by a series of wild-eyed sheiks and imams. read more

Since leaving Zimbabwe in 1984, Peter Godwin has returned many times to visit his parents in their adopted country. When his father suffered a massive heart attack, Godwin's visits grew even more frequent - and he couldn't help noticing that his birthplace, Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story, had descended into a vortex of violence and racial hatred incited by its embattled dictator, Robert Mugabe. Now, in When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, Godwin describes the terrible conditions in his native land - and reveals how things have gotten so bad that that white and black people alike are united in their hatred and fear of the dictator who made it happen.

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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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Democrats like John Kerry want to give Kofi Annan and the United Nations authority over American foreign policy. In this appalling new expose, Dore Gold (who served as Israel's UN ambassador from 1997 through 1999) shows why that's one of the worst -- and most dangerous -- ever advanced by an American presidential candidate. Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos provides conclusive proof that it is absurd to look to the UN to fight aggression, combat terrorism, and preserve global order.

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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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Last year Americans watched with revulsion as French President Jacques Chirac sought to rally an international coalition to oppose the U.S.-led war in Iraq. At the same time, a French public opinion poll showed that fully one quarter of the French population actually supported Saddam Hussein at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Since then, new stories have emerged almost daily of how the government of French President Chirac has sought to undermine the U.S. war on terror -- publicly sniping at America and inciting other countries to do the same.

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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

"America has never been an empire," declares President George W. Bush. "We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused -- preferring greatness to power, and justice to glory." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld echoes this view: "We don't seek empires. . . . We're not imperialistic."

Nonsense, says Niall Ferguson. In Colossus: The Price of America's Empire he argues that in both military and economic terms America is nothing less than the most powerful empire the world has ever seen. But unlike others who have remarked on this development, Ferguson believes it is, on balance, a good thing -- that many parts of the world would benefit from a period of American rule. The question is: are we up to the task?

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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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His case has been championed by Jesse Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Asner, Mike Farrell and others. While on death row, he has published several books, delivered radio commentaries on NPR, given college commencement speeches via audiotape, found himself named an Honorary Citizen of France, and had his defense coffers enhanced by ticket sales from a sold out (16,000-person) concert featuring the popular rock group Rage Against the Machine. He’s a darling of the Left, championed around the world as a "political prisoner" of the "racist" U.S. regime.

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali first captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her bestselling memoir of her childhood in Africa and Saudi Arabia, and of her escape to Holland en route to a forced marriage in Canada. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells the story of her subsequent search for a new life in America as she tries to reconcile her Islamic past with her passionate adherence to democracy and Western values. But Nomad is a memoir with a mission: to inform the West of the extent of the threat from Islam, both from outside and from within our open societies.

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