Overview :Barack Obama has called him "one of my favorite philosophers." John McCain wrote that he is "a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good ... Read More
Overview :In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seethi... Read More
Overview :Born in America, the American Left was nurtured by intellectuals and activists who read Jefferson and Whitman before they read Marx or Mao. ... Read More
Overview :Fired by Stanford and the University of Chicago but recommended by his peers to the presidency of the American Economic Association, Thorste... Read More
Overview :For much of our century, pragmatism has enjoyed a charmed life, holding the dominant point of view in American politics, law, education, and... Read More
Overview :From Pearl Harbor to the election of John F. Kennedy, America witnessed--and caused--great change both at home and abroad. No two decades so... Read More
Overview :A revealing look at the true beginning of American politicsUntil recently rescued by David McCullough, John Adams has always been overshadow... Read More
Overview :Mussolini, in the thousand guises he projected and the press picked up, fascinated Americans in the 1920s and the early '30s. John Diggins' ... Read More
Overview :In this bold, revisionist biography, distinguished historian John Patrick Diggins shows that Ronald Reagan, in his distrust of big governmen... Read More
Overview :The Lost Soul of American Politics is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Co... Read More