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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She's the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Slander, Treason, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors. She's the most high-profile and controversial conservative intellectual on the scene today. Yet most publications find her too hot to handle. Her syndicated column, although brimming with her trademark wit and incisive political observations, appears in only a handful of papers. But now, in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), Coulter collects the best of those columns, including some that no one dared to print before.

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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

Even before the presidential election of 2000 was resolved, numerous intellectuals, politicians, and journalists were calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. But is it really an outmoded and undemocratic institution? The writers assembled for this volume show why it would be folly to abolish the Electoral College by explaining its role in providing a measure of stability and sanity to our electoral and party systems: read more

Fighting dirty is nothing new for liberals. But recently, writes conservative commentator Ann Coulter, things have gotten worse. Now, it seems, there's no limit to what leading liberals in politics and the media will say to discredit -- even destroy -- their conservative opponents. Result? "The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech."

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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

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

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

If you hear about John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) at all nowadays, it's from liberals who try to tar him as a Southern-partisan relic whose thought was antiquated even in his own day. But conservatives who don't know Calhoun are depriving themselves of one of the most formidable defenses of liberty and republican government ever crafted. In Calhoun: Selected Writings and Speeches, Volume XII in the Club's own Conservative Leadership Series, you will find complete texts of his two major treatises, The Disquisition and The Discourse, plus a comprehensive collection of other important writings.

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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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Modern conservatism begins with Edmund Burke and so does the Conservative Leadership Series, the Club’s exclusive library of the founding works of the Movement. Compiled, in this collector’s quality hardcover edition, is a collection of his most important writings and speeches – a must for every conservative library. read more

Russell Kirk lays the foundation for a conservative understanding of the Constitution in a classic study of the social, cultural, and political inheritance of the American Founding. read more

“A president’s religious views or sexual practices have no relation to his public policy.” Finally, here’s the book that cuts the heart out of that argument. You know that what the president does in private affects his leadership. But can you explain why? Could you defend your position publicly? read more

Finally, a history of the conservative movement that gets our story RIGHT! Lee Edwards follows the movement from its inception to the rise to power of Reagan and Gingrich. A must read for every conservative. read more

Beginning with the Greeks, Tom Bethell summons the whole march of Western civilization to show that the institution of property is inextricably tied to traditional ideas of justice and liberty. read more

Historian Charles Adams examines the five “tax tyrannies” in America and observes that they have all produced a violent revolt. read more

Modern historians accuse our nation’s Founders of “racism,” “sexism,” and “elitism.” Professor Thomas West debunks these views and demonstrates why the Founders were sincere in the belief in universal human rights, and in their commitment to democracy. 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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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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