Encounter Books
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The Mexican Mafia
$26.99 Add to cartIt has been called the most dangerous gang in American history. In Los Angeles alone it is responsible for over 100 homicides per year. Although it has fewer than 300 members, it controls a 40,000-str
- Author: Rafael, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: June 16, 2009
- ISBN10: 1594032521
- Language: English
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Freedom from Speech
$5.99 Add to cartThis is a surreal time for freedom of speech. While the legal protections of the First Amendment remain strong, the culture is obsessed with punishing individuals for allegedly offensive utterances. A… [more below]
- Author: Lukianoff, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1594038074
- Language: English
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Mastering the Four Arguments: The Classical Art of Persuasive Writing
$29.99 Add to cartLearning to think well means learning to argue well. But it’s not easy: Teachers often say they spend more time teaching students how to write than covering their subject, and students often wonder wh… [more below]
- Author: Roper, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1641774460
- Language: English
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Felony Review: Tales of True Crime and Corruption in Chicago
$29.99 Add to cart“entertaining . . . reads like a television reality series.”
–Alan Dershowitz, criminal defense attorney
Ever wonder what it’s really like to be a criminal prosecutor in a city like Chicago? Felony Re… [more below]
- Author: Barnett, Randy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1641774959
- Language: English
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American Trojan: Leadership, Resilience, and the Renewal of Higher Education
$39.99 Add to cartAmerican Trojan is the captivating story of a refugee who lost everything and then rebuilt it all, an immigrant who defied the odds and achieved the American Dream; a visionary technologist who transf
- Author: Nikias, C. L. Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1641774932
- Language: English
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Why Democracy Needs the Rich
$32.99 Add to cartWhy Democracy Needs the Rich challenges the prevailing belief that wealth undermines democracy, offering instead a bracing, thought-provoking claim that the rich play an essential role in sustaining a… [more below]
- Author: McGinnis, John O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1641774630
- Language: English
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Ex Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer
$16.95 Add to cartAllen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Hanna Arendt, Norman Mailer, and Lillian Hellman -among the other things these writers and intellectuals all had in common is Norman Podhoretz. With them Pod… [more below]
- Author: Podhoretz, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554171
- Language: English
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The Making of the American Mind: The Story of Our Declaration of Independence
$32.99 Read moreThomas Jefferson called the Declaration of Independence “an expression of the American mind.” Not merely a document, the Declaration is the common creed of our civic life, and it inspires the shared p… [more below]
- Author: Spalding, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774878
- Language: English
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The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume II: The Modern and Contemporary West
$120.00 Add to cartA compelling, resource-rich history of the modern West–from the Renaissance to the present–designed for students and lifelong learners alike, and grounded in the enduring ideals of liberty, faith, a… [more below]
- Series: Golden Thread #2
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774010
- Language: English
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Taking Religion Seriously
$29.99 Add to cart“Millions are like me when it comes to religion: well-educated and successful people for whom religion has been irrelevant,” Charles Murray writes. “For them, I think I have a story worth telling.”
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- Author: Murray, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774851
- Language: English
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Jewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of Hebraic Ideas on the American Story
$32.99 Add to cartFor much of American history, an impassable gulf seemed to separate Jews and Christians, keeping their respective peoples and cultures far apart. But in recent decades that has begun to change. The ri… [more below]
- Author: McClay, Wilfred M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774797
- Language: English
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Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation
$24.99 Add to cartPrestige no longer ensures substance at Ivy League schools; students must navigate a maze of shallow, politicized courses to uncover the rare gems of a classical education, exposing the need for acade… [more below]
- Author: Kissel, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774592
- Language: English
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Religious Liberty in Crisis: Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty
$26.99 Add to cartWhat was unfathomable in the first two decades of the twenty-first century has become a reality. Religious liberty, both in the United States and across the world, is in crisis.
As we navigate the com- Author: Starr, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1641771801
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer
$41.99 Add to cartFrank Meyer devised the blueprint for American conservatism–fusionism–championed by Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and so many to this day. Yet long before and far away, Communists in London chante
- Author: Flynn, Daniel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774495
- Language: English
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The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom
$120.00 Add to cartA sweeping, resource-rich history of the ancient world and Christendom–designed for students and lifelong learners alike, and faithful to the enduring legacy of the Western tradition. This is Volume
- Series: Golden Thread #1
- Author: Hankins, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1309
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1641773995
- Language: English
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Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment
$34.99 Add to cartA wide-ranging collection of essays from one of America’s leading public intellectuals
In Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth acclaimed political philosopher and legal scholar Robert P. George tackles one
- Author: George, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774215
- Language: English
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Another Sort of Mathematics: Selected Proofs Necessary to Finally Acquire an Education in Mathematics
$34.99 Add to cartYears ago, James V. Schall wrote Another Sort of Learning, a book listing those things you should read but probably were never required to read. It is not a curriculum, except maybe one “for life.” Th
- Author: Tawney, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774444
- Language: English
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Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic
$32.99 Add to cart“Lee Smith is a great American patriot who has understood, from the very beginning, that the radical left is the true THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.”
—Donald Trump, former president of the United States
From Le
- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1641774576
- Language: English
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Winning America’s Second Civil War: Progressivism’s Authoritarian Threat, Where It Came From, and How to Defeat It
$34.99 Add to cart“Paul has provided a vital piece to our understanding of modern liberalism’s origins.”
–Ronald J. Pestritto, Author of America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism
Today’s politic
- Author: Paul, Jeffrey E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1641773790
- Language: English
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Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America
$32.99 Add to cartExposes Arabella Advisors as a major “dark money” operation that channels billions into progressive causes through opaque networks and deceptive grassroots groups, revealing its significant influence
- Author: Walter, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1641773812
- Language: English
