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Forced Exit Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the New Duty to Die

Filled with new reporting and research, this expanded edition of a classic book makes a compelling case against legalized euthanasia and takes a closer look at the truly humane and compassionate alternatives.

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Losing the New China A Story of American Commerce, Desire, and Betrayal

Losing the New China is a trip log of an unexpected personal journey. But above all, this book is a carefully documented report on a commercial world without moral landmarks or boundaries, where actions have unintended consequences.

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Destructive Generation Second Thoughts About the Sixties

As leading New Leftists in the Sixties, Peter Collier and David Horowitz were intimately involved in the radicalism of the day. Later on, they became the first of their generation to publicly reject the objectives of that revolutionary era and point out the cultural chaos it had left behind. Part memoir, part political analysis, part social history, Destructive Generation is the compelling story of their intellectual journey into and out of the radical trenches.

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The Rape of the Masters How Political Correctness Sabotages Art

The Rape of the Masters exposes the charlatanry that fuels much academic art history and leaks into the art world generally, affecting galleries, museums and catalogues. It also provides an engaging antidote to the tendentious, politically motivated assaults on our treasured sources of culture and civilization.

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The Other War Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy

Since its founding, Israel has become legendary for winning wars waged against it by much larger armies. But those were “conventional” conflicts where uniformed soldiers fought on clearly delineated fronts, using tanks, aircraft and artillery.

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A Gift of Freedom How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America

A Gift of Freedom shows how John M. Olin’s “venture capital fund for the conservative movement” helped develop one of the leading forces in American politics and culture.

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In Denial Historians, Communism, and Espionage

In this intriguing book, they show how, years after the death of communism, the leading historical journals and many prominent historians continue to teach that America’s rejection of the Party was a tragic error, that American Communists were actually unsung heroes working for democratic ideals, and that those anti-Communist liberals and conservatives who drove the CPUSA to the margins of American politics in the 1950s were malicious figures deserving condemnation.

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Hands On Environmentalism

The political environmentalism of the past 35 years was born of necessity: business as usual was not protecting the air, water and land. Brent Haglund and Thomas Still believe that the regulatory actions of the 1960s and 1970s were essential medicine for a careless society. But over time, the cure became something of a disease itself, a command-and-control system that widened the gulf between people and the natural world they live in.

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The Prince of the City Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life

The Prince of the City is at once a fascinating character study of one of America’s most charismatic public figures, a history of New York over the last forty years, and a classic inquiry into the issue of how cities thrive or die. Siegel’s story culminates with a dramatic account of September 11, 2001, revealing how Giuliani’s s eight years in office had prepared him and the city to rise to this tragic occasion and how in the aftermath of the attack he became America’s Mayor.

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The End of Time

Three days after terrorists slammed airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, David Horowitz, as disoriented as the rest of us by these cataclysmic events, discovered that he had prostate cancer. As America declared war on terror, Horowitz began treatment, emerging months later with a “reprieve” from his disease. He brought back with him this remarkable book of hard-won insights about our country and ourselves–how we get to our ends and what we learn along the way.

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The Return of Anti-Semitism

The Return of Anti-Semitism traces the confluence of several lethal currents: the infusion of judeophobia into Islamic fundamentalism; the rise of terrorist movements (including al Qaeda) that are motivated in large measure by a pathological hatred of Jews; the deliberate and well-financed export of anti-Semitism from the Muslim world into Europe and from there into the United States; and the rebirth of older anti-Semitic traditions in the West that were thought to have ended along with Nazism.

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The People v. Harvard Law How America’s Oldest Law School Turned Its Back on Free Speech

In 2002, Kiwi Camara, a Filipino-American at Harvard Law School, joined most of his classmates in posting his class outlines for the previous year on the school web site. Controversy ensued because some found aspects of Camara’s shorthand racially insensitive. In response, school administrators proposed a speech code.

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Taking Sex Differences Seriously

In this provocative exploration of the masculine and feminine, Steven Rhoads dispels contemporary clichés and spotlights biological realities. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Taking Sex Differences Seriously is a groundbreaking look at the way we are.

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Red Star Over Hollywood The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left

Until now, Hollywood’s political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare. But Ronald and Allis Radosh show that the real drama of that era lay in the story of the movie stars, directors and especially screenwriters who joined the Communist Party or traveled in its orbit, and made the Party the focus of their political and social lives.

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Vile France Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese

In this bitingly funny and insightful polemic, Boyles, using his knowledge of history and his shrewd eye for current events, examines the internal crises—a falling birth rate, an expanding Muslim minority, economic stagnation, a lessening of international prestige— that have changed the personality of what was once la belle France, transforming it into a nation afflicted with status anxiety.

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