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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
DescriptionFor decades, American foreign policy has been based on the seductive belief this there exists a logical relationship between power of states and the physics of modify. And yet today policies intended to do us safer instead do the world extra perilous. History's grandest war against terrorism creates extra terrorists. Global capitalism, designed ...
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The 48 Laws of Power
DescriptionAmoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, ...
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Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
Description"If you think it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all -- then I ask you to read this book...."

In any era, excellent Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They recognize together with conviction what they think inside themselves. They comprehend this all actions have ...

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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
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An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed ...
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
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For the first four months of 1942, American, Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought America's first key land battle of World War II: the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended together with the single largest defeat in American military history. This was only the beginning. Until the Japanese surrendered ...

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Great Ideas: The Prince
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
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“Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?

Liberal Fascism proposes a startling new ...

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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
DescriptionControversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts this endure for generations or centuries show a amazingly consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions this form our debates concerning the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human ...
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Intellectuals and Society
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The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but in addition takes a very different shape from this envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power this modern intellectuals have much ...
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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When scholars put in writing the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the much crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events this allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become ...
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