When it comes to the conservative movement in America, Alfred S. Regnery has seen it all. He has watched conservatism go from a shining idea held by a few in response to an overwhelming liberal ascendancy to a mainstream ideology stoutly defended by millions of Americans -- and he has seen it up close and personal. Now, in Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism, he tells the story of that historic movement as no one else can.

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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," writes Russell Kirk in his Foreword to The Essential Calhoun, "it is now possible to apprehend Calhoun and to seriously examine his thought within the compass of a single volume. This is an important accomplishment, for Calhoun's political thought is more original and more closely reasoned than that of any other American statesman." read more

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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No one is better equipped to answer questions like those than R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., because no one has done more to unearth the truth about Clinton's character and carrer than Tyrrell and his magazine, The American Spectator. Tyrrell traces the formative influence on the young, fatherless Clinton of the hustlers and rogues who populated his real childhood hometown of Hot Springs (not Hope), Arkansas. He shows how the influence-peddlers who dominated Arkansas politics served as Clinton's real political mentors and role models. And he explains how these factors combined with Clinton's Sixties-era radicalism to create a new, more dangerous type of career politician. read more

Go ringside to 5 famous fights and the great intellectual battles of our time. Allen Ginsburg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer were all once central to Norman Podhoretz’s life. Now Podhoretz shows how the political and cultural struggles of the past 50 years helped destroy his friendships with these famous New York intellectuals. read more

As one of the most visible members of the Judiciary Committee that impeached Bill Clinton, Jim Rogan gained widespread attention -- and the enduring gratitude of conservatives -- for helping to spearhead the process. Though his liberal constituency responded by voting him out of office in 2000, Rogan remains a celebrated figure among conservatives. But this is just part of his amazing life story. Now, in Rough Edges, Rogan tells that story in what is certainly the funniest, most freewheeling -- and perhaps the most honest -- political memoir ever written.

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This wonderful book by Michael Reagan is for every conservative fed up with the compromising spirit and the lack of vision that characterizes today’s GOP Leadership. 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

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

This stunning documentary provides an in-depth analysis of the beliefs of the ultra-left . . . and a clear-headed conservative response.

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Waco in flames. Five-year-old Elian Gonzalez captured at gunpoint and returned to Communist tyranny. Chinese Communists funding the Democratic Party's campaign efforts. Whistle-blowers and investigators smeared, hounded, slandered, and politically destroyed. The use of lawsuits to hound enemies and advance political agendas. read more

They oppose everything America stands for. But they've penetrated deeply into the Bush White House, where their radical ideas threaten to subvert our nation from within and ultimately destroy it altogether. Now Claes G. Ryn exposes their sinister ideas and agenda in his shocking new book, America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire.

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Historian and Hungarian immigrant Balint Vazsonyi warns that America is slowly becoming a socialist state. A survivor of Nazi Germany and communism, Vazsonyi knows the threats to our political system and encourages readers to help save the greatest government ever created. read more

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

This book couldn't be more timely. With the conservative movement attracting new members as never before, the need for a balanced, readable and up-to-date anthology of the best that has been thought and said by the movement's leading figures is urgent. And with the question of what -- and who -- is a "true" conservative being vigorously (sometimes viciously) debated, it is helpful to be reminded that disagreement about the answer is nothing new.

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Ward Connerly has seen the nasty face of affirmative action up close. Scorning the role of victim, he worked his way up in the world, offering the best work at the lowest price. A successful businessman, he saw programs that awarded government contracts to minority-owned companies as annoying intrusions and bureaucratic problems. Then came an eye-opener. A white family presented the University of California board of regents with a discrimination complaint. Their son, who was accepted by Johns Hopkins, couldn't get into medical school in California because of quotas. read more

In the sort of paradigm-shifting book that comes along once every few years, Lansing Pollock gives us a lucid, airtight government. A libertarian, Pollock holds a rationalistic view of morality that most Club members don't share. But he's got a quiver full of arguments so stimulation and challenging that we couldn't pass them by. 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