Michael Barone
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The election of 2016 prompted journalists and political scientists to write obituaries for the Republican Party-or prophecies of a new dominance. But it was all rather familiar. Whenever one of our two great parties has a setback, we've heard: 'This is the end of the Democratic Party,' or, 'The Republican Party is going out of existence.' Yet both survive, and thrive.
We have the oldest and third oldest political parties in the world-the Democratic...
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The Founding Fathers were men of high intellect, steely integrity, and enormous ambition-but they were not all of one mind. They came from particular places in already diverse colonies, and they all sought their futures in different horizons. Without reliable maps of even nearby terrain, they contributed in different, and sometimes conflicting, ways to the expansion of a young republic on the seaboard edge of a continent of whose vast expanses they...
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The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America's Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in British history-the late-seventeenth-century uprising known as the Glorious Revolution.In a work of popular history that stands with recent favorites such as David McCullough's 1776 and Joseph J. Ellis's...
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Discover all of Hazel's story in this dynamic documentary release! The iconic Hazel Wright Organ of Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, is the world's most widely heard pipe organ and the fifth largest. First built in 1982 and heard worldwide by millions on the Rev. Robert Schuller's "Hour of Power" broadcast from the former Crystal Cathedral, Hazel now enjoys a renewed musical life following her full restoration in 2022 by the Diocese of...
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The University Press of Kentucky
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2009
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English
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Essays on the fortieth president and how he changed our world: "Hands down the finest compilation on Ronald Reagan that exists." ―Robert G. Kaufman, author of In Defense of the Bush Doctrine
A former Sunday school teacher and Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan was an unlikely candidate for president, but his charisma, conviction, and leadership earned him the governorship of California—from which he launched his