For twenty years, 1866-1886, the author rode the range as a buffalo hunter and cattle herder in Kansas and the Indian Territory that is now Oklahoma. In Cowboy’s Lament, Frank Maynard (1854-1926) vividly recaptures his years as a... Read More

The American tax system is self-destructing and the progressive structure it claims to be is really a regressive scheme for sheltering the assets of the rich while overburdening middle-class payers, claims the author in this convincing... Read More

The United States Congress has been reduced to a partisan body of bickerers, controlled by special interest groups, in which members are more concerned about their re-elections, perks, and power than they are about serving their... Read More

With the curiosity and zeal of Alexis de Tocqueville, Akbar Ahmed and his team of assistants spent nine months, beginning in September 2008, visiting 100 mosques throughout the nation to assess what life is like for America’s six to... Read More

The Constitution recognizes Congress as the most important branch of government, this book reminds us, because through elections it allows all citizens to participate directly in the political process. Louis Fisher was employed at the... Read More

In January 2007, Nancy Pelosi was elected the first female Speaker of the House. As she broke through the glass ceiling of the male world of politics, the Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives for the first time in... Read More

“It would definitely suck to die. And it would suck even harder to die in Iraq,” mused Private Cold Cuts, one of the many colorful and brave soldiers who served under the author, Lieutenant (and later, Captain) Matt Gallagher. The... Read More

Arguably, no other historian than Hofstadter chronicled more dynamically American liberalism, which reached its highpoint during the 1930s New Deal and ultimately unraveled in the mid 1960s, claims the author in this illuminating... Read More