Intercollegiate Studies Institute Ord: 88 books
A Pope and a President
John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A Singular Bond That Changed History
Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders.
Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author...
Rendezvous with Destiny
Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“A first-rate work of insider history . . . A monumental accomplishment.” —National Review
The election that changed everything: Craig Shirley’s masterful account of the 1980 presidential campaign reveals how a race judged “too close to call” as late as Election Day became...
Edmund Burke
A Genius Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk ingeniously combines into a living whole the private and the public Burke. He gives us a fresh assessment of the great statesman, who enjoys even greater influence today than in his own time.
Russell Kirk...
The Tyranny of Liberalism
Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
When it comes to liberalism, the usual story in postwar America is one of decline, accompanied by the subplot of conservatism’s ascendance. But take a longer view—look beyond and below politics—and it is the unchallenged triumph of liberalism and its philosophical assumptions that ought to command...
Freedom & Virture
The Conservative/Libertarian Debate
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Ideas about the nature of liberty and a normative moral tradition lie at the heart of many contemporary political controversies. Because they are concerned with core principles, these debates can be vigorous and highly charged. Nowhere has this been more evident in our time than in the lively exchanges...
by George H. Nash
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
First published in 1976, and revised in 1996, George H. Nash’s celebrated history of the postwar conservative intellectual movement has become the unquestioned standard in the field. This new edition, published in commemoration of the volume’s thirtieth anniversary, includes a new preface by Nash...
Athens, Rome, and England
America's Constitutional Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Uncovering the roots of the U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Constitution influences nearly every aspect of our lives. But for all the fierce disputes about what the Constitution means, the historical foundations of America’s legal and political institutions pass almost unnoticed today.
This...
The Essential Russell Kirk
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement’s most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that...
Modern and American Dignity
Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
An Indispensable Guide to Our Most Pressing Moral and Political Debates
The horrors of the twentieth century exposed the insufficiency of speaking of human rights. In intending to extinguish whole classes of human beings, the Nazis and Communists did something much worse than violating rights;...
After Tocqueville
The Promise and Failure of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
**The End of Democracy? **
The fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Iron Curtain. The Orange Revolution. The Arab Spring.
The rush of events in recent decades seems to confirm that Alexis de Tocqueville was right: the future belongs to democracy. But take a closer look. The...
by Frank S Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
What Is Conservatism? (1964) is a conservative classic—as relevant today as it was half a century ago.
Just what is conservatism? Many people are groping for answers, especially as conservatives seem to be retreating into factions—Tea Partiers, traditionalists, libertarians, social conservatives,...
Conservative Heroes
Fourteen Leaders Who Shaped America, from Jefferson to Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Conservatism in America, as one early twentieth-century politician said, is “as old as the Republic itself.” But what are its foundational principles, and how did they form the modern conservative movement? Author Garland S. Tucker III tells the story in this lively look at fourteen champions...
The Making of the American Conservative Mind
National Review and Its Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
National Review has been the leading conservative national magazine since it was founded in 1955, and in that capacity it has played a decisive role in shaping the conservative movement in the United States. In The Making of the American Conservative Mind, Jeffrey Hart provides an authoritative...
Takeover
How the Left’s Quest for Social Justice Corrupted Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
“How did liberals get to be the way they are today?”
That’s the question many Americans are asking as they witness the efforts of the most left-wing president in American history. At last, historians Donald T. Critchlow and W. J. Rorabaugh supply the answer.
As the authors show, it...