false 2635 6100516 1596985879 9781596985872 60 <![CDATA[Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255656990m/6100516.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255656990s/6100516.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6100516.Meltdown_A_Free_Market_Look_at_Why_the_Stock_Market_Collapsed_the_Economy_Tanked_and_the_Government_Bailout_Will_Make_Things_Worse 4.17 149 Meltdown. In clear, no-nonsense terms, Woods explains what led up to this economic crisis, who's really to blame, and why government bailouts won't work. Woods will reveal:

* Which brave few economists predicted the economic fallout--and why nobody listened
* What really caused the collapse
* Why the Fed--not taxpayers--should have to answer for the current economic crisis
* Why bailouts are band-aids that will only provide temporary relief and ultimately make things worse
* What we should do instead, to put our economy on a healthy path to recovery

With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis. As the new Obama administration inevitably calls for more regulations, Woods argues that the only way to rebuild our economy is by returning to the fundamentals of capitalism and letting the free market work.]]> 2635 3.92 471 154 2009 3871 0895260476 9780895260475 39 <![CDATA[The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165367091m/3871.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165367091s/3871.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3871.The_Politically_Incorrect_Guide_to_American_History 3.89 151 2635 3.92 471 154 2004 313011 0895260387 9780895260383 20 <![CDATA[How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670131m/313011.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670131s/313011.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313011.How_the_Catholic_Church_Built_Western_Civilization 3.85 59 2635 3.92 471 154 2005 313010 0307346684 9780307346681 21 <![CDATA[33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670130m/313010.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670130s/313010.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313010.33_Questions_About_American_History_You_re_Not_Supposed_to_Ask 3.53 57
Surprised? Don’t be. In America, where history is riddled with misrepresentations, misunderstandings, and flat-out lies about the people and events that have shaped the nation, there’s the history you know and then there’s the truth.

In 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask, Thomas E. Woods Jr., the New York Times bestselling author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, sets the record straight with a provocative look at the hidden truths about our nation’s history—the ones that have been buried because they’re too politically incorrect to discuss. Woods draws on real scholarship—as opposed to the myths, platitudes, and slogans so many other “history” books are based on—to ask and answer tough questions about American history, including:

- Did the Founding Fathers support immigration?
- Was the Civil War all about slavery?
- Did the Framers really look to the American Indians as the model for the U.S. political system?
- Was the U.S. Constitution meant to be a “living, breathing” document—and does it grant the federal government wide latitude to operateas it pleases?
- Did Bill Clinton actually stop a genocide, as we’re told?

You’d never know it from the history that’s been handed down to us, but the answer to all those questions is no.

Woods’s eye-opening exploration reveals how much has been whitewashed from the historical record, overlooked, and skewed beyond recognition. More informative than your last U.S. history class, 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask will have you wondering just how much about your nation’s past you haven’t been told.]]> 2635 3.92 471 154 2007 2191970 0307405753 9780307405753 10 <![CDATA[Who Killed the Constitution?: The Assault on American Law and the Unmaking of a Nation]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2191970.Who_Killed_the_Constitution_The_Assault_on_American_Law_and_the_Unmaking_of_a_Nation 4.10 31 —Thomas Jefferson

The United States Constitution—the bedrock of our country, the foundation of our federal republic—is . . . dead.

You won’t hear that from the politicians who endlessly pay lip service to the Constitution. It’s the dirty little secret that bestselling authors Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman expose in this provocative new book. The fact is that government officials—Democrats and Republicans, presidents, judges, and congresses alike—long ago rejected the idea that the Constitution possesses a fixed meaning limiting the U.S. government’s power.

In case you’ve forgotten, this idea was not a minor aspect of the Constitution; it was the document’s very purpose.

Woods and Gutzman round up the suspects responsible for the death of the government the Founding Fathers designed. Going right to the scenes of the crimes, they dissect twelve of the most egregious assaults on the Constitution—some virtually unknown. In chronicling this “dirty dozen,” the authors show that the attacks began long before presidents declared preemptive wars, congresses built pork-barrel bridges to nowhere, and Supreme Court justices began to behave as our supreme legislators.

In Who Killed the Constitution? Woods and Gutzman

• REVEAL the federal government’s “great gold robbery”—the flagrant assault on the Constitution you never heard about in history class
• DESTROY the phony case for presidential war power
• EXPOSE how the federal government has actively discriminated to end . . . discrimination
• TEAR DOWN the “wall of separation” between church and state—an invention that completely contradicts what the Constitution says
• DARE to touch the “third rail of American jurisprudence,” Brown v. Board of Education—showing why a government decision that seems “right” isn’t necessarily constitutional

Never shying away from controversy, Woods and Gutzman reveal an unsettling but unavoidable truth: now that the federal government has broken free of the Constitution’s chains, government officials are restrained by little more than their sense of what they can get away with.

Who Killed the Constitution? is a rallying cry for Americans outraged by government run amok and a warning to take heed before we lose the liberties we are truly entitled to.]]> 2635 3.92 471 154 145363 3.99 77 19 2008 313016 0739110365 9780739110362 0 <![CDATA[The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy (Studies in Ethics and Economics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670133m/313016.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670133s/313016.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313016.The_Church_and_the_Market_A_Catholic_Defense_of_the_Free_Economy 3.40 5 2635 3.92 471 154 2005 313014 0231131879 9780231131872 0 <![CDATA[The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals And the Progressive Era]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670132m/313014.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670132s/313014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313014.The_Church_Confronts_Modernity_Catholic_Intellectuals_And_the_Progressive_Era 4.50 2 As the twentieth century opened, American intellectuals grew increasingly sympathetic to Pragmatism and empirical methods in the social sciences. The Progressive program as a whole -- in the form of Pragmatism, education, modern sociology, and nationalism -- seemed to be in agreement on one thing: everything was in flux. The dogma and "absolute truth" of the Church were archaisms, unsuited to modern American citizenship and at odds with the new public philosophy being forged by such intellectuals as John Dewey, William James, and the New Republic magazine. Catholics saw this new public philosophy as at least partly an attack on them.

Focusing on the Catholic intellectual critique of modernity during the period immediately before and after the turn of the twentieth century, this provocative and original book examines how the Catholic Church attempted to retain its identity in an age of pluralism. It shows a Church fundamentally united on major issues -- quite unlike the present-day Catholic Church, which has been the site of a low-intensity civil war since the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Defenders of the faith opposed James, Dewey, and other representatives of Pragmatism as it played out in ethics, education, and nationalism. Their goals were to found an economic and political philosophy based on natural law, to appropriate what good they could find in Progressivism to the benefit of the Church, and to make America a Catholic country.

The Church Confronts Modernity explores how the decidedly nonpluralistic institution of Christianity responded to an increasingly pluralistic intellectual environment. In a culture whose chief value was pluralism, they insisted on the uniqueness of the Church and the need for making value judgments based on what they considered a sound philosophy of humanity. In neither capitulating to the new creed nor retreating into a self-righteous isolation, American Catholic intellectuals thus laid the groundwork for a half-century of intellectual vitality.

]]> 2635 3.92 471 154 2004 2668832 0979354021 9780979354021 0 <![CDATA[Sacred Then and Sacred Now: The Return of the Old Latin Mass]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2668832.Sacred_Then_and_Sacred_Now_The_Return_of_the_Old_Latin_Mass 3.00 1 2635 3.92 471 154 2008 313012 0895261545 9780895261540 0 <![CDATA[The Political Writings of Rufus Choate]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670131m/313012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670131s/313012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313012.The_Political_Writings_of_Rufus_Choate 0.0 0 180170 3.00 1 0 2635 3.92 471 154 2003 3329628 0761477462 9780761477464 0 <![CDATA[Exploring American History]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3329628.Exploring_American_History 0.0 0 2635 3.92 471 154 2008 313015 0895260727 9780895260727 0 <![CDATA[The American Republic]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670133m/313015.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173670133s/313015.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/313015.The_American_Republic 0.0 0 180171 0.0 0 0 2635 3.92 471 154 2003 7162201 0307406121 9780307406125 0 <![CDATA[33 Questions about American History You're Not Supposed to Ask]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162201-33-questions-about-american-history-you-re-not-supposed-to-ask 0.0 0 3176572 0.0 0 0 2635 3.92 471 154 2007