Tom Brokaw labeled the World War II generation the "Greatest Generation," but he was wrong. That honor belongs to the Founders -- the men who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor for the cause of liberty and independence. This was a generation without equal, and it deserves to be rescued from the politically correct textbooks, teachers, and professors who want to dismiss the Founders as a cadre of dead, white, sexist, slave-holding males. Now, a clear-sighted conservative historian, Dr. Brion McClanahan, does just that. In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers, he profiles Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin and other important Founders; traces the key issues of the day and shows how they dealt with them; and in the process details the Founders’ deep faith, commitment to the cause of independence, impeccable character, and visionary political ideals.

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It's a belief so widely accepted as fact, it's even taught in American schools. Thomas Jefferson, so the story goes, had an affair and fathered a child (or children) with slave Sally Hemings -- and the DNA evidence proves it. But now, in In Defense of Thomas Jefferson, William G. Hyland Jr. demonstrates not only that the evidence for Jefferson's paternity is lacking, but that layer upon layer of evidence points to the president's wayward younger brother, Randolph, and his teenage sons, as the true candidates for a sexual relationship with Sally.

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There are over 100,000 "self-help" books available today, offering advice on everything from relationships to personal finance to staying healthy. And even if you read every one of them, you'll never find sounder or more succinct advice than "A penny saved is a penny earned," "Marry'd in haste, we oft repent at leisure," and "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Not to mention "Fish and visitors stink after three days." These and more than 900 other pithy proverbs coined by Benjamin Franklin -- and reflecting, he said, the "wisdom of the ages and nations" -- were published over the course of 25 years in Franklin's yearly Poor Richard's Almanack. Now, Skyhorse Publishing assembles them all in collector's- quality hardcover edition suitable for browsing, gift- giving, and keeping at your bedside nightstand.

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The politically correct history that dominates our schools and universities today insists that Jefferson Davis was another Hitler, Robert E. Lee was the equivalent of Rommel, and the Confederate States of America was our own little version of the Third Reich -- a blot on American history. But reality, as always, was different: the Old South, as H. W. Crocker III explains in The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War, had immense charm, grace and merit -- and a very strong Constitutional case. This book is a joyful myth-busting rebel yell that shatters today’s Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War -- and shows why, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, "America and the whole world is crying out for the spirit of the Old South."

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One man was the father of his country. The other's name has become synonymous with treason. But in fact, they lived remarkably parallel lives -- with one crucial difference. During Bill Clinton's depraved and hedonistic Presidency, the Leftist media establishment bleated daily that character didn't matter, and certainly wasn't essential for effective leadership. But conservatives always knew that wasn't true - and now comes a book that proves it in an unusual and provocative way: George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots by military historian and former Superintendent of West Point General Dave R. Palmer.

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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was the most famous American of his age -- a world-renowned inventor, essayist, philosopher, diplomat, wit, and the only Founding Father to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris, and the United States Constitution. His Autobiography, though considered the most popular and influential memoir ever written, ends abruptly in 1757, when he was just 51 years old; another 33 years of his life were still to be recorded when he died, including the most eventful years of his illustrious political career. Now, in honor of the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth, Mark Skousen has accomplished what the old philosopher could not. Drawing from Franklin's own papers, correspondence, and a detailed outline Franklin left behind, Skousen has completed the Autobiography -- using Franklin's own words.

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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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Many critics of American foreign policy claim the United States is intervening in the affairs of other nations without cause and becoming an "imperial power." But in How American Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy, acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander shows how, far from overreaching or bungling into situations in which we shouldn't be involved, the United States has properly embraced its role as world leader -- a role which evolved steadily through the course of our history. By analyzing this development over more than two centuries, Alexander answers those who suggest that America has gone off course. On the contrary, he argues, just as our government got it right in the past, so has it gotten it right today -- while America's critics have gotten it wrong, because what they are hoping for, peace without a price, will never come to pass.

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In 1989, Andrew Carroll, editor of the bestselling collection War Letters, lost everything he owned in a house fire --including all his personal correspondence. About the same time, he suffered a crisis of faith. Somehow, the two together would lead to his national "Legacy Project" in which he hoped to gather war-time letters of faith. The response was overwhelming: Letters poured in from all over the country from every major U.S. conflict, eventually totaling some 75,000. Now, in Grace Under Fire, Carroll has picked out the best of these to bring you the most intimate, dramatic, historic, and insightful letters and e-mails ever written about God, religion, and spirituality. Individually and together, they emphasize how extremely important faith has been -- and continues to be -- in the lives of U.S. troops and their families. read more

You don't have to be an American history expert to identify certain critical events in our past that shaped our country. Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion, 9/11, the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy, the Great Depression -- these are just a few of the milestones in our nation's history. But there are other, equally significant events that sparked deep and significant changes but are not necessarily obvious. Now, in Seven Events that Made America America: And Proved that the Founding Fathers were Right All Along, bestselling conservative historian Larry Schweikart takes an in-depth look at seven such episodes and reveals the profound ways they have influenced our history.

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Colonel Oliver North's bestselling War Stories series has brought you riveting, eyewitness accounts of American heroism during the second war in Iraq and World War II in the Pacific. Now he does it again in War Stories III: The Heroes Who Defeated Hitler, a thrilling compendium of the chief events of World War II in Europe, filled with never-before-published reminiscences of the men and women who were there - including Bob Dole, George McGovern, and Chuck Yeager.

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No one can fully appreciate the great good fortune we have to be Americans without knowing the events that brought us to where we are today. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer children are leaving school knowing the basic chronology of American history. One study, for instance, found that two thirds of seventeen-year-olds could not identify the half century in which the Civil War occurred. Now, bestselling children's author and historian Lynne Cheney (wife of Vice President Dick Cheney), provides a remedy: in A Time for Freedom: What Happened When in America, Mrs. Cheney takes young readers through a fascinating, illustrated timeline of key events in our history -- along with historic quotations by great Americans and little-known facts about our country.

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Joseph Story, was a child of the American Revolution who became not only a professor of law at Harvard but a Supreme Court Justice -- the youngest ever appointed. As a witness to, and participant in, the early years of constitutional interpretation, Justice Story opens a brilliant window into the thinking of the Founders in A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States. He reminds us that a strict construction of -- and adherence to -- the Constitution was what the Founders intended. This exclusive Conservative Book Club edition of Joseph Story's masterpiece introduces a new generation to an unsurpassed work of American constitutional interpretation. With calm reason and in clear, unpretentious language, Justice Story explains every part, passage and provision of the Constitution, from Preamble to Amendments. read more

Margaret Thatcher was one of the most vigorous, determined, and successful enemies of socialism the world has ever known. As Britain's Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, she took a sledgehammer to the nation's postwar socialist consensus -- privatizing state-owned industries, curbing the power of labor unions, reducing welfare, and instituted other free-market reforms that transformed a financially weak and ungovernable Great Britain into a rich and influential global powerhouse. In so doing, she proved to the world that socialism could be reversed and, along with her friend and ally Ronald Reagan, helped to inspire a global free-market revolution. Now, in There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters, Claire Berlinski explains what Thatcher did, why it matters, and how she she pulled it off -- producing a vivid and immensely readable portrait of one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.

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On October 7, 1571, on the gulf between mainland Greece and the Peloponnese, the fleets of the Ottoman Empire and the Christian Holy League met in a battle that would prove the crux of that century's war between Christianity and Islam. Now, in Victory of the West: The Great Christian Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto, acclaimed historian Niccolo Capponi describes the clash of cultures that led to this crucial confrontation - and recounts in gripping detail the last great showdown between oared fighting galleys which halted the progress of seemingly unstoppable Islamic conquerors. read more

Forty years after his death, it is impossible to escape the iconic image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. From T- shirts to posters to Hollywood movies like The Motorcycle Diaries, he is still celebrated as a selfless, fearless martyr to the cause of "the people". But as Cuban exile Humberto Fontova reveals in this myth-shattering book, the real Che Guevara was a cold-blooded murderer who thought nothing of firing a gun into the stomach of a woman six months pregnant, whose only crime was that her family opposed him. He was also, Fontova proves, a sadistic torturer, a coward in battle, a hypocrite who lusted after material luxuries while carefully cultivating his image as a lover of the poor and oppressed. Exposing the Real Che Guevara is based on scores of interviews with the few people still alive who interacted with Che and can tell the truth about him -- including survivors of Ché's atrocities, and the CIA agent who interrogated Che just hours before the Bolivian government executed him. read more

Coming of age during China's Cultural Revolution, Kang Zhengguo personified everything the Communists sought to destroy. The son of a professional family, Kang was a free spirit, drawn to literature, who kept secret diaries and disdained the political sloganeering at his university. When he made the fatal mistake of requesting the suspect novel Doctor Zhivago, he was expelled from the university and, at the age of twenty, sentenced to a four-year term of hard labor in Xian's Number Two Brickyard. So begins this dramatic memoir of life under Mao's brutal Communist regime -- a story not only of hardship, but of courage and even humor in the face of cruelty. read more

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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For a half a century, the interpretation of America's story has drifted steadily leftward. Some of this has been the result of deliberate distortions of the New Left, seeking to 'redress' the crimes in the American past by excessive criticism and clever slant. Some has come from the leftist influences that shape many academics who write American history, with their obsession with race, class, 'gender,' and other 'oppressed/oppressor' constructs. Now, in A Patriot's History of the United States, Michael Allen and Larry Schweikhart take on what they call more than 50 years of bad scholarship read more

When 1787 began, our young country was in turmoil. The central government was unable to pay off debts, there was armed insurrection in Massachusetts, and foreign governments were taking advantage of our weakness. The question of the hour, James Madison wrote, was "whether the American experiment was to be a blessing to the world or to blast forever the hopes which the republican cause had inspired." So in May of that year, delegates from across America -- including George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin -- gathered in Philadelphia. There they debated and struggled until finally they created a new framework for governing: the Constitution of the United States. Now, in We the People: The Story of Our Constitution, bestselling author Lynne Cheney (wife of the Vice President) and master illustrator Greg Harlin team up to recreate this momentous time in American history -- a time when, in Mrs. Cheney's words, "a document was written that created our nation and offered a vision of ordered liberty to all the world."

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