Common Good Constitutionalism
By: Adrian Vermeule
3.70
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated i…
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1. On Wealth and Poverty
By: John Chrysostom , Catharine P. Roth
4.49
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
The sermons of St John Chrysostom are noted as classical commentaries on the Christian life. Knowin… read more
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"This is why God has allowed you to have more: not for you to waste on prostitutes, drink, fancy food, expensive clothes, and all other kinds of indolence, but for you to distribute to those in need."-John Chrysostom, On Wealth and Poverty
2. Introduction to the Devout Life
By: Francis de Sales
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Written for Christians in every walk of life and for every age, St. Francis De Sales' classic work … read more
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"Be who you are and be that well."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"The desire and pursuit of virtue tends to make us virtuous, but the desire and pursuit of honors tends to make us odious and despicable."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
"If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show."-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
3. Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
By: James Burnham
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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"Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature o…"-James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
"...we may assert that liberalism believes man's nature to be not fixed but changing, with an unlimited or at any rate indefinitely large potential for positive (good, favorable, progressive) developm…"-James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
4. The Imitation of Christ
By: Thomas à Kempis , William Benham , Richard Challoner, D.D.
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Paperback
Only the Bible has been more influential as a source of Christian devotional reading than The Imita… read more
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5. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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6. Orthodoxy
By: G.K. Chesterton
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more
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- philosophy
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7. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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8. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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9. Crossing the Threshold of Hope
By: Vittorio Messori , Pope John Paul II
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fifteen years into his Papacy, and on the eve of the third millennium, Pope John Paul II goes to th… read more
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10. On the Incarnation
By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more
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11. The End of History and the Last Man
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Manhas provoked controver… read more
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12. The Life of St. Anthony
By: E.A. Wallis Budge , Athanasius of Alexandria
3.98
Format: 212 pages,
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13. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
By: William B. Irvine
4.48
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discove… read more
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14. The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
By: Ryszard Legutko
3.85
Format: 96 pages,
The book is written from a perspective of someone who after having lived for many years under commu… read more
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15. The Seven Storey Mountain
By: Thomas Merton , Robert Giroux , William H. Shannon
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
A modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine, The Seven Storey Mountain is one of the most influenti… read more
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16. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration
By: Pope Benedict XVI , Adrian Walker
3.22
Format: 111 pages,
"Ho voluto fare il tentativo di presentare il Gesu dei Vangeli come il Gesu reale, come il "Gesu st… read more
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18. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.00
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more
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"Here my last love had died."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"No one is ever holy without suffering."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"I had been there before; I knew all about it."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
19. The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives' War on Fun
By: Noah Rothman
3.92
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." -H.L. Mencken The Left… read more
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20. Why Liberalism Failed
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.86
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more
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"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
21. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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22. Conservatism: A Rediscovery
By: Yoram Hazony
4.34
Format: 256 pages, ebook
The idea that American conservatism is identical to classical liberalism--widely held since the 196… read more
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23. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
By: Christopher Caldwell
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms inte… read more
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24. The Case for Christian Nationalism
By: Stephen Wolfe
3.51
Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical elites and the progressive media complex want you to think that Christian nationalism i… read more
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25. The Religion of American Greatness
By: Paul D. Miller
4.04
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had s… read more
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"Justice requires neutrality, at some level."-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness
"At no point has America’s culture been defined by its concern to “preserve"-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness
"Nationalism is incoherent in theory, illiberal in practice, and, I fear, often idolatrous in our hearts."-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness
"The Bible is universal truth, but our interpretations of it are always historically and culturally conditioned."-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness
26. Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
By: Stephen Breyer
4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that dec… read more
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27. Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution
By: Hadley Arkes
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Originalism Is Not Enough In this profoundly important reassessment of constitutional interpretati… read more
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28. Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.68
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacin… read more
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29. Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism (Volume 1)
By: Samuel T. Francis
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The 1992 presidential election campaign showed just how deep were the divisions within the Republic… read more
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"In the 20th century, egalitarianism has been used principally as the political formula or ideological rationalization by which one, emerging elite has sought to displace from political, economic, and…"-Samuel T. Francis, Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism (Volume 1)
"Martin Luther King’s legacy, as its keepers know, is profoundly at odds with the historic American order, and that is why they can have no rest until the symbols of that order are pulled up root and …"-Samuel T. Francis, Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism (Volume 1)
30. Common Good Constitutionalism
By: Adrian Vermeule
3.70
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated i… read more
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31. Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
By: Brad Snyder
4.38
Format: 957 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-cent… read more
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