Marvin Olasky, described by The New York Times as the godfather of compassionate conservatism, travels the country, showing how the new movement is unfolding. His tour shows compassionate conservatism to be not a radically new idea, but a rediscovery of long-lost wisdom. Here is the author's blueprint ... more »

This is the story of five conservative activists from the baby-boom generation -- Bill Kristol, Ralph Reed, Clint Bolick, Grover Norquist, and David McIntosh -- who arrived on campus in the 1970s in rebellion against everything sixties and went on to overturn the political dynamics of the country in ... more »

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's explosive account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, the most secretive White House of modern times. This vivid, unfolding narrative is like no other book that has been written about the Bush presidency -- or any that is likely to be written ... more »

President George W. Bush dubbed Karl Rove "The Architect" for his skill in creating an unprecedented campaign and fund-raising machine. But Rove's ambitions have always been far more sweeping--to build a right-wing dynasty that can dominate American politics for decades. Rove's master plan ... more »

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Spin -- intentional manipulation of the truth -- is everywhere. It's in the White House, in law, in journalism, and in advertising. Here, Bill Press investigates what spin is, who does it, why they do it, and its impact on American society. He turns the tables on the purveyors of spin -- spin doctors ... more »

Every crime is a mystery story with a motive at its heart. Through riveting profiles and a narrative that reads like the best mystery fiction, John Douglas, famed former chief of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, takes us into the dark corners of the minds of arsonists, hijackers, bombers, poisoners ... more »

This book, the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed, confronts head-on the great moral issues underlying the headline-making controversies of our times, showing how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice. The author insists we need to ... more »

For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: Southeast Asia. In fact, such countries as the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia have been crucial nodes in the al-Qaeda network since long before ... more »

The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories collects journalist Donald Katz's most fascinating profiles of people whose lives tell us something about business, adventure, sports, politics, culture, and in a brilliant, ancillary way, ourselves. Katz's opening story and the title piece of the ... more »

"We have to fight back." --Al Franken The Left is angry--angry at President George W. Bush, the war in Iraq, the "right-wing media," and more. And as National Review investigative writer Byron York reveals in this stunning, meticulously reported book, liberal activists have harnessed ... more »

Our Fathers is history at its bestas intimate as a diary, as immediate and epic as a novel. When, in early 2002, a team of Boston Globe reporters broke open the pedophilia scandal around Father John J. Geoghanand then Paul Shanley, Joseph Birmingham, and hundreds of other priests in Boston and across ... more »