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America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
by Mark Steyn
In this, his first major book, Mark Steyn--probably the most widely read, and wittiest, columnist in the English-speaking world--takes on the great poison of the twenty-first century: the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win. |
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Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power
by David Aikman
Within the next thirty years, one-third of China's population could be Christian, making China one of the largest Christian nations in the world. These Christians could also be China's leaders, guiding the largest economy in the world.
What is happening in China is what happened to the Roman Empire nearly two millennia ago-a great power transforming itself. The results could be astonishing.
Veteran reporter David Aikman, former Beijing bureau chief for Time magazine, takes you inside this revolution to reveal some shocking facts. In Jesus in Beijing, you'll learn: 1. Why China might be America's next ally against radical Islam 2. Why the Chinese believe that Christianity is crucial to the rise of the West-and of China 3. Why fierce anti-Christian persecution and covert government encouragement exist side by side in China 4. Why Chinese Christians see themselves as allies of the United States-and of Israel 5. How the Christian underground has spread-and won over key members of the Chinese Communist Party 6. The impact of a Christianizing China on global Christendom at large. |
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How America Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy
by Bevin Alexander
Many critics of American foreign policy claim the United States is intervening in the affairs of other nations without cause and becoming an "imperial power." But in How American Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy, acclaimed military historian Bevin Alexander shows how, far from overreaching or bungling into situations in which we shouldn't be involved, the United States has properly embraced its role as world leader -- a role which evolved steadily through the course of our history. By analyzing this development over more than two centuries, Alexander answers those who suggest that America has gone off course. On the contrary, he argues, just as our government got it right in the past, so has it gotten it right today -- while America's critics have gotten it wrong, because what they are hoping for, peace without a price, will never come to pass. |
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The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas P.M. Barnett
A groundbreaking reexamination of U.S. and global security, certain to be one of the most talked about books of the year. A senior military analyst with the U.S. Naval War College, Barnett has given a constant stream of briefings over the past few years, and particularly since 9/11, to the highest of high-level civilian and military policymakers-and now he gives it to you. The Pentagon's New Map is a cutting-edge approach to globalization that combines security, economic, political, and cultural factors to do no less than predict and explain the nature of war and peace in the twenty-first century. |
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Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First
by Mona Charen
Syndicated columnist and CNN commentator Charen offers a moral indictment of those public figures-politicians, entertainers and professors-who, she says, stubbornly refused to see communism for what it was: a brutal, dictatorial death machine. The author highlights the kind of historical revisionism and self-hatred that marked some of America's most noted public figures and warns that the lessons learned from communism are just as relevant today. The tragedy of September 11, Charen says, has produced a cadre of left-leaning pundits who wasted no time in blaming America for the violence perpetrated by terrorism. According to The Wall Street Journal, it is a "riveting chronicle of the lies and evasions among Western journalists, politicians and intellectuals". |
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Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders
by Jerome R. Corsi and Jim Gilchrist
Called "vigilantes" by President Bush—but cheered on by millions of Americans concerned over decades of uncontrolled illegal immigration—the all-volunteer Minuteman Project was founded in 2004 by decorated Marine veteran Jim Gilchrist. Armed with only binoculars and cell phones, Gilchrist and his fellow patriots proved that America's porous borders could be successfully guarded, and in the process set off a national debate on an issue the Federal government had long ignored. Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders is a first-hand account from the frontlines, and what it says will shock you. Jim Gilchrist teams up with Jerome Corsi, the co-author of Unfit for Command — the book that derailed John Kerry's presidential campaign — to describe in vivid detail how the nation's southern border has disintegrated into a Wild West of human trafficking, drug smuggling, and violent gangs. |
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Treason
by Ann Coulter
In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller Slander, leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on every foreign policy issue, from the fight against Communism at home and abroad, the Nixon and the Clinton presidencies, and the struggle with the Soviet empire right up to today's war on terrorism. Reexamining the sixty-year history of the Cold War and beyond—including the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Whittaker Chambers–Alger Hiss affair, Ronald Reagan’s challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” the Gulf War, and our present war on terrorism—Coulter reveals how liberals have been horribly wrong and actually aided the enemy in all their political analyses and policy prescriptions. She also examines how history, especially in the latter half of the twentieth century, has been written by liberals and, therefore, distorted by their perspective. Far from being irrelevant today, her clearheaded and piercing view of what we've been through is a desperately needed corrective, informing us for challenges today and in the future.
And More From Ann Coulter:
• Godless: The Church of Liberalism
• How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)
• Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
• High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton
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Religion of Peace?: Islam's War Against The World
by Gregory M. Davis
Author and filmmaker Gregory M. Davis rebuts the notion that Islam is a great faith in desperate need of a Reformation. Instead, he exposes it as a form of totalitarianism, a belief system that orders its adherents not to baptize all nations, but to conquer and subdue them. Islamic law's governance of every aspect of religious, political, and personal action has far more in common with Nazism than with the tenets of Christianity or Judaism.
Davis details how Islamic thought divides the world into two spheres locked in perpetual combat: dar al-Islam ("House of Islam," where Islamic law predominates), and dar al-harb ("House of War," the rest of the world). This concise yet thorough book leaves no doubt as to why most of the world's modern conflicts are connected to Islam--and calls into question why Western elites refuse to acknowledge Islam's violent nature. Religion of Peace? Islam's War Against the World is nothing less than a wake-up call to all civilized nations--and one they ignore at their peril. |
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Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets -- and How We Let It Happen
by Bill Gertz
Taking advantage of gaping holes in America’s defenses, terrorist organizations and enemy nations like Communist China, North Korea, Russia, and Cuba—not to mention some so-called friends—are infiltrating the U.S. government to steal our most vital secrets and use them against us. And most astonishing of all, our leaders are letting it happen.
In the explosive new book Enemies, acclaimed investigative reporter Bill Gertz uncovers the truth about this grave threat to our national security and America’s harrowing failures to address the danger. Gertz’s unrivaled access to the U.S. intelligence and defense communities allows him to tell the whole shocking story, based on previously unpublished classified documents and dozens of exclusive interviews with senior government and intelligence officials. He takes us deep inside the dark world of intelligence and counterintelligence—a world filled with lies and betrayal, spies sleeping with enemy spies, and moles burrowing within the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, and even the White House.
And More From Bill Gertz:
• Treachery: How America's Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies
• Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11
• The China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America
• Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security
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Between War and Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq
by Victor Davis Hanson
Hanson, who has been compared to John Keegan as a historian of war, turns in a frank, insightful, and valuable examination of our troubled era, capably slicing through the left's lazy logic on topics from Muslims in America to cultural differences and the war on terror. |
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Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
by David Horowitz
In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the "Great Satan" with America's radical Islamic enemies. This Left, which once made common cause with Communists, has now joined forces with radical Islam in attacking America's defenses at home and its policies abroad. From their positions of influence in the university and media culture, leftists have defined America as the "root cause" of the attacks against it. In a remarkable exploration of the "Mind of the Left," Horowitz traces the evolution of American radicalism from its Communist past to its "anti-war" present. He then shows how this Left was able to turn the Democratic Party presidential campaign around and reshape its views on the War on Terror. |
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Guns, Freedom and Terrorism
by Wayne LaPierre
Gun control has long been a hot topic in the United States, and the controversy has only heightened since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Now, with a growing focus on homeland security, more and more Americans are asserting their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
In Guns, Freedom, and Terrorism, NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre provides a fact-filled volume and tackles a number of subjects surrounding gun rights, including: arming airline pilots, animal rights extremism, media bias, gun show prohibition, self-defense, and others. His convincing arguments will cause even the most adamant gun control supporter to consider the values our forefathers fought to protect: liberty, democracy, and justice. |
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Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores
by Michelle Malkin
Invasion exposes how America continues to welcome terrorists, criminal aliens, foreign murderers, torturers, and the rest of the world's "undesirables." It reveals how our immigration authorities have granted citizenship or legal permanent residence to America-haters and brutal thugs. And it explains how misguided policies and overworked officials have encouraged criminals to enter our country, abuse our systems, and attack our citizens. |
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Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror
by Richard Miniter
Losing bin Laden is a dramatic, page-turning read, a riveting account of a terror war that bin Laden openly declared, but that Clinton left largely unfought. With a pounding narrative, upclose characters, and detailed scenes, it takes you inside the Oval Office, the White House Situation Room, and some of the deadliest terrorist cells that America has ever faced. If Clinton had fought back, the attacks on September 11, 2001, might never have happened. |
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A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations
by Benjamin Netanyahu
In this thought-provoking and meticulously-researched examination of the Middle East's troubled history, charismatic, conservative, and sometimes controversial Israeli world leader Benjamin Netanyahu traces the origins, development, and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West. Far from a stale politician's memoir, the former Prime Minister presents a resounding plea for Israel's acceptance as a full member of the world community, as well as a call for understanding of its unique security needs. |
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Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists
by Benjamin Netanyahu
The former Prime Minister of Israel and a noted authority on international terrorists, Benjamin Netanyahu offers a compelling approach to understanding terrorism. Much more dangerous than domestic terrorists is the spread of fundamentalist Islamic terrorism. Netanyahu explores how democracies can defend themselves against this growing threat. |
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Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security
by Robert Patterson
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson was a military aide to President Clinton from May 1996 to May 1998 and one of five individuals entrusted with carrying the "nuclear football" -- the bag containing the codes for launching nuclear weapons. Though he arrived at the job "filled with professional devotion and commitment to serve," he left believing that Clinton had "sown a whirlwind of destruction upon the integrity of our government, endangered our national security, and done enormous harm to the American military in which I served." Patterson, without indulging in any personal attack on the President he served, nevertheless recounts damning tales of Clinton's wanton irresponsibility, from losing the nuclear codes and shrugging it off to refusing to take into custody a trapped Osama bin Laden. |
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Anti-Americanism
by Jean-Francois Revel
Angered by the assault against a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-Francois Revel has come to America's defense in Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that spent several weeks late last year on top of France's best-seller list.
Revel believes that what he calls the "anti-American obsession" is based on a willful disregard of the most obvious facts of American political and social life, its economic freedom and democratic traditions. He sees much anti-Americanism simply as anti-capitalism in disguise on the part of those--in Europe and the rest of the world--who are still committed to doctrines that are at heart illiberal and even totalitarian. In probing the origins of the notion that America is the source of all evil--imperialistic, greedy and ruthlessly competitive--he shows how these charges ultimately stem from weakness and envy on the part of those who make them and are a neurotic effort to find an easy explanation for Europe's own loss of status in the postwar era. As far as America's "unilateralism" is concerned, Revel asserts that the U.S. is forced to act alone because Europe has repeatedly failed to act in the cause of collective security. As far as America's sins of "globalization" are concerned, Revel shows that the developing countries of the world want more, not less access to rich markets and corporate investment.
Jean-Francois Revel explores the strengths of America and exposes the agendas of the anti-Americans in his own country, in Europe and around the world. At a time when it seems that much of the world is marching against America, Revel's clearheaded analysis of the protestors' motives shows what they're really marching for and what the world will lose if their anti-Americanism should ever prevail. |
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The Betrayers
by Phyllis Schlafly and Rear Admiral Chester Ward, USN (ret.)
An astonishing look -- written in 1968 -- at how the Johnson Administration systematically dismantled America's defenses. Sections concerning strategic weapons and missile defenses sound eerily modern, and have tremendous implications for the current debate.
Read Rod D. Martin's review of The Betrayers.
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The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
by Natan Sharansky, with Ron Dermer
Perhaps the most influential book of 2004, inasmuch as it topped George W. Bush and Condolezza Rice's reading lists immediately after the election, with dramatic consequences for American foreign policy.
Sharansky has lived an unusual life, spending nine years as an internationally-celebrated Soviet political prisoner and dissident, and nine years as an Israeli politician. He brings the unique perspective of his experiences in order to make the case for democracy with his longtime friend and adviser Ron Dermer. In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, nondemocratic societies are put under a microscope to reveal the mechanics of tyranny that sustain them. In exposing the inner workings of a "fear society," the authors explain why democracy is not beyond any nation's reach, why it is essential for our security and why there is much that can be done to promote it around the world.
And More From Natan Sharansky:
• Fear No Evil: The Classic Memoir of One Man's Triumph Over a Police State
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Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
by Lady Margaret Thatcher
In Statecraft, Margaret Thatcher discusses global military, political, and economic challenges of the twenty first century. The former British Prime Minister brings her unrivaled political experience to comment on the threats that democracy faces at the dawn of the new millennium and the role Western powers should play in the world's hotspots, especially in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Importantly, she also calls for Britain's re-negotiation of the terms of its EU membership, and even for its joining NAFTA. Statecraft is an incisive treatise on power in the age of globalism, written by a legendary world statesperson with a matchless combination of principles, experience and shrewdness.
Read Rod D. Martin's column, "Lady Thatcher's Valedictory".
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The French Betrayal of America
by Kenneth R. Timmerman
Timmerman provides airtight evidence, demonstrating his widely recognized skills as an investigative journalist, of French duplicity toward America on a level approaching that of China or the old USSR; and he raises the crucial question of whether the France's behavior necessitates the cancellation of our alliance. Our security interests no longer converge, and our economic systems increasingly appear to be at loggerheads. The war in Iraq harshly exposed French treachery and their desire to do business with the worst of international tyrants, putting their economy, their international standing, and their relationship with a 200-year-old friend in severe jeopardy. Timmerman's book is a must-read.
And Also See:
• Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship With France
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