In this fascinating work, historian John Julian Norwich examines how nine of Shakespeare’s plays merged actual fact and poetic license. Norwich’s entrancing conclusions will likely keep historians (and Shakespeare buffs) up late at night. As the Kirkus reviewer explains, Norwich “uses his immense knowledge of English and European history to illuminate the historical background of the plays and to offer an intriguing look at England in the years of Shakespeare’s writing. Norwich’s analysis of Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, and Richard III emphasizes factors Shakespeare added for dramatic effect and his equally strategic omissions.” read more

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

Amuse your conservative friends and annoy your liberal neighbors with the Ann Coulter Talking Action Figure. This incredibly lifelike action figure looks just like the beautiful Ann Coulter, and best of all . . . it sounds like Ann, too! Ann recorded these classic Coulter sayings especially for this action figure.

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As Islamic terrorists took advantage of lax immigration policies to embed themselves deeply into American society and operate beneath law-enforcement radar, what was the liberal press doing? Just what you'd expect: spiking negative stories about immigration and pooh-poohing the threat posed by America's all-but nonexistent border controls - in a relentless quest to promote multiculturalism and diversity. read more

From the acclaimed author of The Virginian comes this classic narrative about life in the post Civil-War South. Using Charleston, South Carolina (renamed Kings Port) as his backdrop, Owen Wister paints a compelling portrait of a southern culture seeking to move forward in the aftermath of debilitating warfare and reconcile with a vastly different northern elite read more

Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the greatest literary figures of all time. Dostoevsky's intense struggle with the question of God is presented in the famous “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” in The Brothers Karamazov. In this unparalleled interpretation of the Grand Inquisitor, Ellis Sandoz combines literary criticism with political philosophy to place Dostoevsky squarely in the context of his day and culture as a religious thinker. Dostoevsky has often been regarded as a prophet foretelling the rise of totalitarian socialism in Russia, but his political vision had deep spiritual roots. His recognition that atheistic materialism had gripped the mind of modern man moved him to craft a fiction that resisted the secularization of existence. read more

All across America, young warriors for liberty are springing up, unwilling to fall into lockstep with the liberal ideology pervading campuses throughout our land. With “fire in their bellies and quills in their hands,” these passionate, truth-seeking students are forming independent campus publications that have become the most important voice of our times -- the conservative counterculture taking on the left-wing orthodoxy in the battle of ideas. They are the Sam Adams and Patrick Henrys of our era, as student Morgan N. Knull of the Wabash Commentary points out in one of the book’s many inspiring essays: “In the years before the Liberty Bell sounded a call to arms, patriots flooded newspapers and town squares with pleas for independence, sparking debate and influencing public opinion. They planted the philosophical roots for the United States...Independent papers serve as the conscience of schools, the guardian of traditions, and the voice of reason amidst the rot of higher education.” read more

From 1999 to 2003, Ari Fleischer was one of George W. Bush's most trusted advisers -- first as a top campaign aide, then as White House press secretary. As such, Fleischer had an insider's view of the most dramatic events of the President's first term -- including the disputed 2000 election results, 9/11 and its aftermath, and the pressure-filled buildup to the war in Iraq. Through it all, Fleischer had the unenviable task of putting out the President's message through a mostly Bush-hating White House press corps, which habitually took out their disdain for the President on Fleischer himself. Now, in this revealing memoir, Fleischer takes readers behind-the-scenes in the Oval Office during a time of almost continual crisis -- and tells what it was like to "take heat" from a hostile media bent on destroying the Bush presidency.

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"The last few decades have seen a welcome revival of scholarly interest in how we should live. But in an age of relativism that asks us not to be judgmental, the idea that laughter signals inferiority will seem very old-fashioned. And so it is." With that unapologetic salvo, F. H. Buckley, in this entirely entertaining book on the serious subject of laughter, takes the side of the guardians of moral and aesthetic standards in the battle against the soulless forces of modernism.

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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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David beat Goliath because technology extended his reach and amplified his power. Today, thanks to amazing developments in technology, Davids are beating Goliaths everywhere -- from small business out-competing big corporations to the bloggers who brought down Dan Rather and Trent Lott, from the private cyberwarriors who stalk Al Qaeda websites to the revolutions in media consumption, entertainment, and political activism. Now, Glenn Reynolds tells this amazing story in An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and other Goliaths.

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The "Hottest Book in the Country"!
Even if you've suspected your nightly news is slanted to the left, it's far worse than you think. In this jaw-dropping exposé, Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist Bernard Goldberg reveals a corporate news culture in which the close-mindedness is breathtaking, and journalistic integrity has been pawned to liberal opinion. read more

In this masterpiece by one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed poets and literary critics, Allen Tate touches on the broad sweep of fiction, poetry, poets, imagination, literature, and culture of the pre- and post-Christian West in 48 spacious essays. 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

It's bad enough when celebrity fools like Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon use their public pulpits to inflict their fatuous, ignorant liberalism on the rest of us. But when they do, it's easy for sensible conservatives to tune them out. Not so easy to avoid is the insidious propaganda that is now pouring out of Hollywood: politically charged films, distorted documentaries, and skewed docudramas sugarcoat the bitter pill of liberalism so that Americans will swallow it more easily. Hollywood elites are doing their best to infect Americans with liberal ideas before they even notice what's going on. But in Hollywood Nation, bestselling author and media critic James Hirsen exposes their sinister game -- and helps you to be on your guard against this subtle and often not-so-subtle brainwashing.

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For decades, America's most "trusted" new sources -- The New York Times, the Associated Press, the major television networks -- have filtered, edited, and spun "news" until it's nothing more than liberal propaganda. Now, in Stop the Presses!, Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily.com, takes you inside the New Media revolution that is shaking the very foundations of the liberal mainstream media, eroding its ability to control the flow of information, and with it the power to control the lives of millions around the world. read more

This volume ranks as a publishing feat, with 3,677 famous lines and short selections covering the whole sweep of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, arranged by subject for easy reference. Shakespeare had something to say, invariably something fresh and unexpected, on just about everything. read more

The works of Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid and Dante used to form an instantly recognizable cultural background for educated people. No longer. Their absence from modern sensibility means in turn that we miss a great deal in writers closer to our time and language – such as Milton, Racine, Goethe, and even Chaucer and Shakespeare. We miss, even, a great deal of ourselves – although we may not realize it, our own minds are stocked with themes and attitudes rooted in the Greek, Roman and medieval classics. Now, in The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature, Professor Anthony O'Hear of the University of Buckingham helps familiarize us with our classic literary heritage -- and shows how it shaped our distinctively Western way of thinking and feeling.

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When John Henry Newman delivered these lectures 150 years ago, it was the heart of the Victorian era. Times have changed, and Cardinal Newman's insights on the purposes and advantages of a university education are needed even more today. First spoken when Newman assumed the position of first rector of the newly founded Catholic University in Ireland, these messages form an orderly, logical treatment of what a true education entails. Some of the topics: read more

"Never in my memory," says veteran journalist Bernard Goldberg, "were so many journalists so intent on effecting change as they were during the campaign of 2008." Sure, mainstream journalists always root for the Democrat -- Richard Nixon complained of media bias as long ago as his presidential campaign against John F. Kennedy in 1960. But in 2008 it went beyond that. In A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media, Goldberg shows that this time journalists were not satisfied merely being partisan witnesses to history.

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