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Remoter Stars in the Church Sky

By: George Gilfillan

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Remoter Stars in the Church Sky

By: George Gilfillan

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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3752573651

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9783752573657

Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law

By: Bruce P. Frohnen,George W. Carey

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Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law

By: Bruce P. Frohnen,George W. Carey

Americans are ruled by an unwritten constitution consisting of executive orders, signing statements, and other quasi-laws designed to reform society, Bruce Frohnen and George Carey argue. Consequently, the Constitution no longer means what it says to the people it is supposed to govern and the government no longer acts according to the rule of law.

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304

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Harvard University Press

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0674088875

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9780674088870

Blood of the Liberals

By: George Packer

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Blood of the Liberals

By: George Packer

An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active history George Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian liberal in the Jacksonian mold who opposed the New Deal. Packer's father was a Kennedy-era liberal, a law professor and dean at Stanford whose convictions were sorely--and ultimately fatally--tested in the campus upheavals of the 1960s. The inheritor of two sometimes conflicting strains of the great American liberal tradition, Packer discusses the testing of ideals in the lives of his father and grandfather and his own struggle to understand the place of the progressive tradition in our currently polarized political climate. Searching, engrossing, and persuasive, Blood of the Liberals is an original, intimate examination of the meaning of politics in American lives.

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420

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1466890134

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The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism

By: George McKenna

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The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism

By: George McKenna

In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of American patriotism. That patriotism—shaped by Reformation Protestantism and imbued with the American Puritan belief in a providential “errand”—has evolved over 350 years and influenced American political culture in both positive and negative ways, McKenna shows. The germ of the patriotism, an activist theology that stressed collective rather than individual salvation, began in the late 1630s in New England and traveled across the continent, eventually becoming a national phenomenon. Today, American patriotism still reflects its origins in the seventeenth century. By encouraging cohesion in a nation of diverse peoples and inspiring social reform, American patriotism has sometimes been a force for good. But the book also uncovers a darker side of the nation’s patriotism—a prejudice against the South in the nineteenth century, for example, and a tendency toward nativism and anti-Catholicism. Ironically, a great reversal has occurred, and today the most fervent believers in the Puritan narrative are the former “outsiders”—Catholics and Southerners. McKenna offers an interesting new perspective on patriotism’s role throughout American history, and he concludes with trenchant thoughts on its role in the post-9/11 era.

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Yale University Press

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0300137672

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9780300137675

The Madisonian Constitution

By: George Thomas

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The Madisonian Constitution

By: George Thomas

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JHU Press

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0801888522

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9780801888526

The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition

By: Willmoore Kendall,George W. Carey

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The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition

By: Willmoore Kendall,George W. Carey

This reprinted classic on political theory challenges core tenets of our political views derived from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

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197

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CUA Press

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0813208262

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9780813208268

The Conservative Sensibility

By: George F. Will

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The Conservative Sensibility

By: George F. Will

The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's "astonishing" and "enthralling" New York Times bestseller and Notable Book about how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition (Booklist) -- "easily one of the best books on American Conservatism ever written" (Jonah Goldberg). For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America. The Founders' vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government, religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two centuries of American prosperity. Now, as Will shows, conservatism is under threat -- both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party. America has become an administrative state, while destructive trends have overtaken family life and higher education. Semi-autonomous executive agencies wield essentially unaccountable power. Congress has failed in its duty to exercise its legislative powers. And the executive branch has slipped the Constitution's leash. In the intellectual battle between the vision of Founding Fathers like James Madison, who advanced the notion of natural rights that pre-exist government, and the progressivism advanced by Woodrow Wilson, the Founders have been losing. It's time to reverse America's political fortunes. Expansive, intellectually thrilling, and written with the erudite wit that has made Will beloved by millions of readers, The Conservative Sensibility is an extraordinary new book from one of America's most celebrated political writers.

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598

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Hachette Books

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0316480916

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9780316480918

The Every-Day Book of Modern Literature

By: George H. Townsend

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The Every-Day Book of Modern Literature

By: George H. Townsend

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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338523462X

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9783385234628

Galleries of Literary Portraits

Vol. I

By: George Gilfillan

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Galleries of Literary Portraits

Vol. I

By: George Gilfillan

Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

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3375175507

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9783375175504

Edmund Wilson's America

By: George H. Douglas

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Edmund Wilson's America

By: George H. Douglas

When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning half a century, Wilson commented on nearly every aspect of the American experience, and he produced a body of work on the subject that rivals those of Tocqueville and Henry Adams. In this book, George H. Douglas has distilled the essence from Wilson's many writings on America. An active reporter and journalist as much as a scholar, Wilson ranged from Harding to Nixon, from bathtub gin to marijuana. Douglas here surveys Wilson's mordant observations on the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, income tax, suburbia, sex, populist politics, the Vietnam War, the Great Society, the failure of American scholarship, pollution of the landscape, and the breakdown of traditional American values. The Wilson who emerges from this survey is a historical writer with deep and unshakable roots in Jeffersonian democracy. Among his most far-seeing and poignant books are studies of the literature of the American Civil War and of the treatment of the American Indian. Pained by the crumbling moral order, Wilson was never completely at home in the twentieth century. In politics he was neither a liberal nor a conservative as those terms are understood today. He endured those ideologies and their adherents, but his genius was that he could bring them into hard focus from the perspective of the traditional American individualist who was too pained to accept the standardized commercial world that had grown up around him. Edmund Wilson's America offers a distinctive overview of the nation's life and culture as seen and judged by its leading man of letters.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813187745

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9780813187747

The Woven Figure

Conservatism and America's Fabric

By: George F. Will

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The Woven Figure

Conservatism and America's Fabric

By: George F. Will

Swatches From The Century's End ...I cannot deny my past to which my self is wed, the woven figure cannot undo its thread. Louis MacNeice, "Valediction" These words express a truth of conservatism that has discomfited conservatives in the years covered by this volume. This collection of columns shows how, in the mid-1990s, conservatives fancied themselves poised to conduct a revolution, a radical reorientation of politics and governance. But in the late 1990s, they have discovered how resistant a complex nation is to being undone and rewoven. In this volume, George F. Will, distinguished political columnist and cultural critic, examines many episodes of the conservative tribulations and the liberal accommodations to the new political landscape. These writings present a map of the landscape, a guide for people perplexed by the gap between contemporary political theories and practices. With his customary linguistic flair and acerbic wit, Mr. Will tackles a wide range of subjects, including political correctness on college campuses; extreme fighting; the 1996 presidential campaign; judicial activism; ESPN; and Corvettes. These writings are history written on deadline, and together they constitute a richly woven tapestry of our era.

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385

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Simon and Schuster

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0684864584

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9780684864587

The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White

By: George Hutchinson

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The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White

By: George Hutchinson

By restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissance--or blamed for corrupting it--George Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations, and twentieth-century cultural nationalism in the United States.

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Harvard University Press

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067437262X

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9780674372627

Beyond Disruption

Technology's Challenge to Governance

By: George P. Shultz,Jim Hoagland,James Timbie

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Beyond Disruption

Technology's Challenge to Governance

By: George P. Shultz,Jim Hoagland,James Timbie

In Beyond Disruption: Technology's Challenge to Governance, George P. Shultz, Jim Hoagland, and James Timbie present views from some of the country's top experts in the sciences, humanities, and military that scrutinize the rise of post-millennium technologies in today's global society. They contemplate both the benefits and peril carried by the unprecedented speed of these innovations—from genetic editing, which enables us new ways to control infectious diseases, to social media, whose ubiquitous global connections threaten the function of democracies across the world. Some techniques, like the advent of machine learning, have enabled engineers to create systems that will make us more productive. For example, self-driving vehicles promise to make trucking safer, faster, and cheaper. However, using big data and artificial intelligence to automate complex tasks also ends up threatening to disrupt both routine professions like taxi driving and cognitive work by accountants, radiologists, lawyers, and even computer programmers themselves.

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Hoover Press

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081792146X

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9780817921460

Book's by George Croly

Remoter Stars in the Church Sky

Remoter Stars in the Church Sky

Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law

Constitutional Morality and the Rise of Quasi-Law

Blood of the Liberals

Blood of the Liberals

The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism

The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism

The Madisonian Constitution

The Madisonian Constitution

The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition

The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition

The Conservative Sensibility

The Conservative Sensibility

The Every-Day Book of Modern Literature

The Every-Day Book of Modern Literature

Galleries of Literary Portraits

Galleries of Literary Portraits

Edmund Wilson's America

Edmund Wilson's America

The Woven Figure

The Woven Figure

The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White

The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White

Beyond Disruption

Beyond Disruption

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