The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought
By: Richard M. Weaver
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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1. The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
By: Owen Wister , Gary Scharnhorst
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory… read more
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"Stand on your laigs you polecat, and admit you're a liar!"-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"For out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an enemy, waiting to be known."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"Dr. MacBride had a manner of saying "pardon me," which rendered forgiveness well-nigh impossible."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader..."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
2. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
By: Flannery O'Connor
4.17
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
This now classic book revealed Flannery O'Connor as one of the most original and provocative writer… read more
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"The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
"We're all damned," she said, “but some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation."-Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
3. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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- philosophy
- southern
"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
4. City of God
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson
3.93
Format: 1186 pages, Paperback
No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more
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- philosophy
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"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."-Augustine of Hippo, City of God
5. The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
By: Russell Kirk
4.13
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
"It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in Ameri… read more
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"Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue"-Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
"Any informed conservative is reluctant to condense profound and intricate intellectual systems to a few pretentious phrases; he prefers to leave that technique to the enthusiasm of radicals."-Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
"In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that they seem refreshingly hearty when they are rediscovered."-Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
"Conservatives respect the wisdom of their ancestors...they are dubious of wholesale alteration. They think society is a spiritual reality, possessing an eternal life but a delicate constitution: it c…"-Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
6. The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
By: Benjamin R. Merkle
4.39
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The unlikely king who saved England. Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the En… read more
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- history
7. Phaedrus
By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text edit… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
8. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
By: David Hackett Fischer
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English… read more
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- nonfiction
9. On Secular Education
By: Douglas Wilson , Robert Lewis Dabney
4.18
Format: None pages,
"The education of children for God is the most important business done on earth. It is the one busi… read more
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10. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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11. Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
By: S.C. Gwynne
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the prizewinning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Mooncomes a thri… read more
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12. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
By: Matthew B. Crawford
4.00
Format: None pages,
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13. Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
By: Patrick J. Buchanan
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Were World Wars I and II--which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruct… read more
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14. Gorgias
By: Plato , Walter Hamilton , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates peren… read more
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15. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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16. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
17. Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America
By: None , None
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often l… read more
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18. Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.13
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award… read more
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"When the Papayuna is pining you need to call home."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"She looks like her face caught fire and they beat it out with a rake"-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
"Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world."-Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
19. Confessing the Faith: A reader's guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith
By: None
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
This accessible, biblical, and thoughtful work digests years of study and teaching into bite-sized … read more
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20. The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
By: Vishal Mangalwadi , None
4.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Understand where we came from. Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its rele… read more
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21. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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- nonfiction
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- war
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
22. The Intentional Father: A Practical Guide to Raise Sons of Courage and Character (Includes Activities, Rites of Passage, and Steps for Parenting Boys. ... for Dads, Grandpas, and Expectant Fathers)
By: Jon Tyson
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Self-initiation is killing our young men. Without strong mentors, boys are walking alone into a wil… read more
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- nonfiction
"Let's not be a generation of fathers who push this crisis off to the next generation. Let's be fathers who release blessing and not brokenness -- favor and not curses. Resolve in your spirit to do th…"-Jon Tyson, The Intentional Father: A Practical Guide to Raise Sons of Courage and Character (Includes Activities, Rites of Passage, and Steps for Parenting Boys. ... for Dads, Grandpas, and Expectant Fathers)
23. Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture
By: Aaron Renn
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Learning how to live in today's new social and cultural environment will require examination, trial… read more
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- history
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24. Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World
By: Joe Rigney
4.54
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Who are you when the teeth come out? For every true act of leadership, there is an equal and mo… read more
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- cultural
- nonfiction
"The Scriptures regularly use the metaphor of a body to speak about human social life. The church is the body of Christ, with many members (1 Cor. 12). Marriage is a “one flesh"-Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World
25. Strangely Bright: Can You Love God and Enjoy This World?
By: Joe Rigney
4.48
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Learn to Delight in God and in His Good Gifts At the heart of the Christian life lies the tensio… read more
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"We are to love God fully, unreservedly, with nothing held back."-Joe Rigney, Strangely Bright: Can You Love God and Enjoy This World?
26. The Boniface Option: A Strategy For Christian Counteroffensive in a Post-Christian Nation
By: Andrew Isker
4.43
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
The nationally bestselling team from the widely popular book Christian Nationalism: A Biblical Guid… read more
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27. Mere Christendom
By: Douglas Wilson
4.28
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Evangelical elites tell us that Christian nationalism and theocracy are grave dangers to our Christ… read more
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"Anyone who conforms to the Westminster Confession of Faith is a Christian Nationalist."-Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom
28. The Covenant Household
By: Douglas Wilson
4.59
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
Families are formed by covenants. But what is a covenant, and what does that mean for your family?T… read more
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29. A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
By: Wilhelm Röpke
3.99
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
An introduction to economic thinking which holds that the vital things in life are those beyond sup… read more
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- politics
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"The questionable things of this world come to grief on their nature, the good ones on their own excesses."-Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
"As we approach the limits of reasonable consumption, the cult of the standard of life must end up in disillusionment and eventual repugnance."-Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
"It is no use seeking salvation in institutions, programs, and projects. We shall save ourselves only if more and more of us have the unfashionable courage to take counsel with our own souls and, in t…"-Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
"It is economism to allow material gain to obscure the danger that we may forfeit liberty, variety, and justice and that the concentration of power may grow, and it is also economism to forget that pe…"-Wilhelm Röpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
30. The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought
By: Richard M. Weaver
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Focuses on the basic concepts and principles ruling Southern life including the code of chivalry an… read more
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- war
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- nonfiction
31. The Southern Tradition : The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism
By: Eugene D. Genovese
3.84
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
In recent years American conservatism has found a new voice, a new way of picking up the political … read more
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