In a vigorous defense of public life, Senator Joseph Lieberman, one of the most articulate and respected of our politicians, defines the duty, the honor and the privilege of public life in the face ... more »

This book focuses on conservatism and identifies America's politics from 1994 to 1997. Today, as usual, conservatism is less a creed than a climate of opinion. The essays in this volume focus on how... more »

The tapes of Richard Nixon's conversations with political intimates compel our attention, capturing different facets and moods. He was alternately prosaic and articulate, self-centered and empathe... more »

Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl became the focus of international concern when he was kidnapped by Islamic extremists in Pakistan while investigating a story. News of his brutal murder in ... more »

AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001......the federal government detained several hundred people suspected of terrorist involvement, and continued to search for hundreds more. Some were overseas, some were on ... more »

... And the Horse He Rode In On gives the first full accounting of what's really behind the longest-running, most expensive dirty trick in politics: Ken Starr's investigation. James Carville... more »

In 1742, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, wrote, "There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." Two hundred forty-th... more »

This vivid, revealing, riveting day-by-day account of the mind-boggling political drama that gripped the nation for six months -- the first impeachment of an elected president, William Jefferson C... more »

In 1996, in big cities and small towns across America, a new crop of teenagers entered the ninth grade. These students, the class of 2000, experienced the world in a unique way, often enjoying the b... more »

Completing the Revolution is Robert Novak's manifesto forimplementing a conservative vision for government in the years to come.He brings to his analysis the combativeness familiar to those... more »

Few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years than David Gergen. A White House adviser to four presidents, both Republican and De... more »

In Truth to Tell Davis provides an insider's guide to the controversy surrounding Bill Clinton's presidency. As Clinton's chief spokesman for handling "scandal matters" he had the unenviable job of ... more »

Examining the politicians in Washington, Chris Matthews has made his name as a razor-sharp journalist. In Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, he rallies those who "work hard and play ... more »

With enormous skill, the president and his advisors constructed a defensive wall built of bricks left over from Watergate: diversion, half-truth, equivocation, and sophistry. Explosive and hard-hi... more »

This book, the summation of a lifetime of study and thought about where we as a society are headed, confronts head-on the great moral issues underlying the headline-making controversies of our tim... more »

Accountability. Standards. Choice. Readiness. You've heard the buzzwordsof school reform. How will the new policies being put into action affectyou? Dr. Douglas Reeves explains the Bush policies, ... more »

In June 12, 1963, Mississippi's fast-rising NAACP leader Medgar Evers was gunned down by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith. Beckwith escaped conviction -- twice. His crime went unpuni... more »

Championing a clear "back-to-basics" curriculum, here are hundreds ofpractical suggestions for helping children succeed while showing what tolook for in a good school and what to watch out for in ... more »

Spin -- intentional manipulation of the truth -- is everywhere. It's in the White House, in law, in journalism, and in advertising. Here, Bill Press investigates what spin is, who does it, ... more »

This is the story of five conservative activists from the baby-boomgeneration -- Bill Kristol, Ralph Reed, Clint Bolick, Grover Norquist,and David McIntosh -- who arrived on campus in the 1970s in... more »

The Nobel Lecture was delivered by Jimmy Carter on December 10, 2002, at the ceremony in Oslo, Norway, where he received the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Newsweek's Jerusalem bureau chief Joshua Hammer arrived in the West Bank in October 2000 -- just after Ariel Sharon made his inflammatory visit to the Haram al-Sharif, otherwise known as the Temple ... more »

AFTER September 11, 2001, emotions couldn't be clearly defined. There were no WORDS strong enough to justify, avenge, explain, or express the sheer magnitude of this horrifyingly... more »

Enter the public and private spaces of Iran -- the bazaars, beautysalons, aerobics studios, courtrooms, universities, mosques, andpalaces. Discover the vitality of a society often misunderstood by... more »

Despite the torrent of coverage devoted to war with Iraq, woefully little attention has been paid to the history of the region, the policies that led to the conflict, and the daunting challenges tha... more »