"A reflection on American conservatism, examining how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition--one that now finds itself under threat, both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party"-- "A monumental new reflection on American conservatism and the Founders' political tradition. For more than four decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles...

Publisher's description: In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Few figures...

Repackaged in a new tie-in edition to coincide with the Netflix film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, a moving story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her triumphant spirit as she survived the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot's brutal regime. Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the...

"Learn how the U.S. Constitution established the American government and what this document means for modern Americans."--Publisher's website.

Thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff tells the story of the stormy first nine months of Donald Trump's term as President. Among the revelations: What President Trump's staff really thinks of him -- What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama -- Why FBI director James Comey was really fired -- Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn't be in the same room -- Who is really...

Historians, community leaders, and others were polled by the authors and the results were compiled into articles that appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch in December 2007 and January 2008. The names are arranged by century and there's a category for "worst Virginian" as well.

When Donald Trump said "Drain the Swamp," he was not referring to anything that hadn't been attempted before. In fact, he was the last of six major presidents to fight one variant of the Swamp or another -- Abraham Lincoln with the Slavery Swamp; Grover Cleveland with the Spoils Swamp; Theodore Roosevelt with the Trust Swamp; Ronald Reagan with the Bureaucracy Swamp, and Trump with the Deep State Swamp. Dragonslayers explains why these Swamps exist,...

Discusses feudalism, the system of government based on ownership of land, as it was practiced in Europe in the Middle Ages.