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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson
By Vincent Phillip Muñoz
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Did the Founding Fathers intend to build a “wall of separation” between church and state? Are public Ten Commandments displays or the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance consistent with the Founders’ understandings of religious freedom? In God and the Founders, Dr. Vincent Phillip Muñoz answers these questions by providing new, comprehensive interpretations of James Madison, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. By analyzing Madison’s, Washington’s, and Jefferson’s public documents, private writings, and political actions, Muñoz explains the Founders’ competing church-state political philosophies. Muñoz explores how Madison, Washington, and Jefferson agreed and disagreed by showing how their different principles of religious freedom would decide the Supreme Court’s most important First Amendment religion cases. God and the Founders answers the question, “What would the Founders do?” for the most pressing church-state issues of our time, including prayer in public schools, government support of religion, and legal burdens on individual’s religious conscience.
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Tocqueville: Democracy in America (Library of America)
By Alexis de Tocqueville
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Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America and explores its implications for European society in the emerging modern era. His book provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest, and the vital role of religion in American life, while prophetically probing the deep differences between the free and slave states. The clear, fluid, and vigorous translation by Arthur Goldhammer is the first to fully capture Tocqueville’s achievements both as an accomplished literary stylist and as a profound political thinker
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
From Sea to Shining Sea: 1787-1837 (God’s Plan for America)
By Peter Marshall, David Manuel
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In From Sea to Shining Sea history buffs are transported back to the post-revolutionary era to discover how God intervened on behalf of a struggling nation. This fast-paced, absorbing narrative and sequel to the bestselling The Light and the Glory covers that fragile time in America’s history from 1787 to 1837 when a newborn nation faced challenges and overcame her growing pains by clinging to her Christian heritage.
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
The Life of Andrew Jackson
By Robert V. Remini
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The classic one-volume biography of Andrew Jackson
Robert V. Remini’s prizewinning, three-volumn biography, The Life of Andrew Jackson, won the National Book Award upon it’s completion in 1984. Now, Remini captures the essence of the life and career of the seventh president of the United States in the meticulously crafted single-volume abridgement.
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams
By John Quincy Adams
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June 24th, 1833.-This day is one of those anniversaries which bring to my mind placid recollections. It is that of my arrival at Ghent. There is in the remembrance of the large half-year which I passed in that city a charm belonging to no other period of my life. The scenery through which I had passed from the painful day when I left my wife and son Charles at St. Petersburg; the deep anxiety and almost despondency with which I looked forward to the prospect of a failure in the object of the mission ; the kindness and courtesy which I experienced from the inhabitants of Ghent during the whole term of our residence there; the comfort and tranquillity and friendly hospitality which marked the mode of existence of the people; the trying struggles aud collisions with the British Commissioners and with my own colleagues which I underwent; the success beyond my most sanguine expectations which closed the negotiation, and the subsequent signal discomfiture of … more.
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
By Edwin Meese, Matthew Spalding, David F. Forte
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This guide is the first of its kind, and presents the U.S. Constitution as never before, including a clause-by-clause analysis of the document, each amendment and relevant court case, and the documents that serve as the foundation of the Constitution.
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
God & Government
By Charles W. Colson
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How should Christians live their faith in the public arena? Twenty years ago, the first edition of Chuck Colson’s Kingdoms in Conflict became a bestseller, a must-read for people interested in politics and the relationship between church and state. Now, with a passion for truth and moved by the urgency of the times we live in, Colson has written God and Government, re-voicing his powerful and enduring message for our post-9/11 world. In an era when Christianity is being attacked from every side— books being written charging Christians with being theocrats and trying to impose their views on an unwilling culture—what is the message of the Christian church? What does the Bible say, and what do we learn from history about the proper relationship between faith and culture? Appealing to scripture, reason, and history, this book tackles society’s most pressing and divisive issues. New stories and examples reflect the realities of today, from the clash with radical Islam to the deep division between “reds” and “blues.” In an era of angry finger-pointing, Colson furnishes a unique insider’s perspective that can’t be pigeonholed as either “religious right” or “religious left.” Whatever your political or religious stance, this book will give you a different understanding of Christianity. If you’re a Christian, it will help you to both examine and defend your faith. If you’ve been critical of the new religious right, you’ll be shocked at what you learn. Probing both secular and religious values, God and Government critiques each fairly, sides with neither, and offers a hopeful, fair-minded perspective that is sorely needed in today’s hyper-charged atmosphere.
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
By John Adams
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An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775, they initiated correspondence in 1777, negotiated jointly as ministers in Europe in the 1780s, and served the early Republic—each, ultimately, in its highest office. At Jefferson’s defeat of Adams for the presidency in 1800, they became estranged, and the correspondence lapses from 1801 to 1812, then is renewed until the death of both in 1826, fifty years to the day after the Declaration of Independence.
Lester J. Cappon’s edition, first published in 1959 in two volumes, provides the complete correspondence between these two men and includes the correspondence between Abigail Adams and Jefferson. Many of these letters have been published in no other modern edition, nor does any other edition devote itself exclusively to the exchange between Jefferson and the Adamses. Introduction, headnotes, and footnotes inform the reader without interrupting the speakers. This reissue of The Adams-Jefferson Letters in a one-volume unabridged edition brings to a broader audience one of the monuments of American scholarship and, to quote C. Vann Woodward, ‘a major treasure of national literature.’
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation’s History and Future
By Newt Gingrich
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A simple walk through Washington, DC, to view the significant monuments, memorials, and artifacts found in our Nation’s capital, began a profound journey of personal discovery and renewal for Newt Gingrich, one of America’s most influential politicians and commentators. His first stop was the National Archives, where the immortal words from the Declaration of Independence that we “are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights” jumped off the page and into his heart. From day one in our country’s history, the Author of freedom was not the state nor even the Founding Fathers. Our basic human rights and freedoms, which have been the spark for all of America’s accomplishments and greatness, were – and are – “Creator-endowed.” Gingrich sounds a clarion call for us to recognize that the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness that we hold so dear are inseparable from a sincere and humble acknowledgement that these gifts are only the Creator’s to give.
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
American Patriot’s Bible: The Word of God and the Shaping of America
By Richard G. Lee
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THE ONE BIBLE THAT SHOWS HOW ‘A LIGHT FROM ABOVE’ SHAPED OUR NATION. Never has a version of the Bible targeted the spiritual needs of those who love our country more than The American Patriot’s Bible. This extremely unique Bible shows how the history of the United States connects the people and events of the Bible to our lives in a modern world. The story of the United States is wonderfully woven into the teachings of the Bible and includes a beautiful full-color family record section, memorable images from our nation’s history and hundreds of enlightening articles which complement the New King James Version Bible text.
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