BOOK LISTING Books are listed in their order of appearance in the series.
The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent by Ben Shapiro (2021). Ben Shapiro is the founding editor in chief and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire and the host of The Ben Shapiro Show, the top conservative podcast in the nation. A three-time New York Times bestselling author, Shapiro is a graduate of Harvard Law School and an Orthodox Jew. He is widely considered one of the most influential conservative voices in America.
The Great American Delusion:The Myths Deceiving America and Putting the West at Risk by Patrick Davies (2020). Patrick Davies is an author, consultant and company advisor. He was a British diplomat for 25 years, wrapping up his career in Washington DC as the UK’s Deputy Ambassador to the United States from 2013 – 2018 where he worked alongside the Obama and Trump White Houses for 5 years. Earlier in his career, he served in the British embassies in Morocco, Poland, and Iran. During periods at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London he was Private Secretary to two consecutive Foreign Secretaries, Robin Cook and Jack Straw (2000-2003) and, later, led the UK’s response to the Arab Spring (2010-2012).
How to Save the West:Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises by Spencer Klavan (2023). Spencer Klavan, a scholar, writer, and podcaster, has a lifelong devotion to the great works and principles of the West. After studying Greek and Latin as an undergraduate at Yale, he spent five years at Oxford earning his doctorate in ancient Greek literature. Now an editor at the Claremont Institute, he has written for many outlets, including The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, City Journal, Newsweek, Claremont Review of Books, The Federalist, The American mind, and the Daily Wire.
After America:Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Steyn (2011). Mark Steyn is the bestselling author of the book American Alone. His writing on war, politics, the arts, and culture has appeared in almost every major newspaper around the world from The Wall Street Journal to The Irish Times to The Australian. In the United States he is the National Review’s “Happy Warrior,” as well as a regular guest-host on America’s number one radio show, The Rush Limbaugh Show, and America’s number two cable news show, Hannity on Fox News. He lives in New Hampshire.
If It Ain’t Woke Don’t Fix It by Ben Shapiro (2022). For author details see the #1 listing above.
Superpower in Peril:The Battle Plan to Renew America by David H. McCormick (2023). David McCormick is a prominent business executive, combat veteran, and public servant. David served as the chief executive officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest investment management firms, before pursuing a U.S. Senate seat in his home state of Pennsylvania in 2022. Prior to Bridgewater, he was the U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs and held senior posts on the National Security Council and at the Department of Commerce. From 1999 to 2005, David was the CEO and then president of two publicly traded software companies. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, a former army paratrooper, and a veteran of the Persian Gulf War. David holds a PhD from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and previously served on the Defense Policy Board.
While Time Remains by Yeonmi Park (2023) Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and human rights activist. She escaped the brutal Kim dictatorship as a teenager, only to fall victim to sex trafficking in China before escaping to South Korea. Eventually making her way to the United States, where she is now a citizen, Park has dedicated her life to bringing attention to the horrors and atrocities taking place in her home country as well as in China. Park is also the author of international bestseller In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom. She is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in New York City.
The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio (2021). Ray Dalio is the founder, co-chief investment officer, and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, a global asset manager and leader in institutional portfolio management as well as the largest hedge fund in the world. He believes in studying the past in order to understand where we are and to have practical principles for dealing with what is coming at us. Dalio is also the author of Principles: Life & Work, Principles for Success, Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises, and several economic studies. Ray graduated with a BS in Finance from C.W. Post College in 1971 and earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1973.
Empires in World History by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper (2010). Jane Burbank is a Collegiate Professor, History and Russian and Slavic Studies, at New York University. Fredrick Cooper is a Professor of History at New York University, where he specializes in the history of Africa, of colonialism, and of empires. He previously taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan, and he has been a visiting professor or research fellow at institutions in France, Germany and Italy.
Ancient Rome:The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Simon Baker (2006). Simon Baker is a member of the BBC’s award-winning History Unit where he has worked on a wide range of programs about the classical world. He was the development producer of the series Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire.
American Schism by Seth David Radwell (2021). Seth David Radwell is an internally known business executive and thought leader in consumer marketing. A common thread across all his leadership and business endeavors has been his passion for our shared democratic values and his interest in American public policy. Mr. Radwell served as president of e-Scholastic, the digital arm of the global children’s publishing and education conglomerate. Until 2018 Mr. Radwell served as the CEO of The Proactiv Company, the leading skincare brand for acne. Prior to his publishing career, Radwell serviced as senior vice president, content, for Prodigy Services Company, where he pioneered new ecommerce revenue streams for the online service business. Before that, he spent six years with the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
The Dying Citizen:How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson (2021). Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow in military history at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of over two dozen books. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Washington Times and many other media outlets. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush and was a presidential appointee in 2007-2008 on the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, The Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence by Vivek Ramaswamy (2022). Vivek Ramaswamy is a New York Times bestselling author and an entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful enterprises. A first-generation American, he founded Roivant Sciences in 2014 and led the largest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016, eventually culminating in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDA approved products. He has founded other successful healthcare and technology companies, and in 2022, he launched Strive Asset Management, a new firm focused on restoring the voices of everyday citizens in the American economy, by leading companies to focus on excellence over politics. He is the author of the bestselling Center Street book Woke, Inc. Vivek is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again by Dan Pfeiffer (2020). Dan Pfeiffer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes, We (Still) Can and a cohost of Pod Save America. One of Barack Obama’s longest-serving advisers, he was White House director of communications under President Obama (2009-2013) and senior adviser to the president (2013 – 2015).
American Marxism by Mark R. Levin (2021). Mark R. Levin, nationally syndicated talk-radio host, host of Levin TV, chairman of Landmark Legal Foundation, and the host of the Fox News show Life, Liberty, & Levin, is the author of six consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers: Liberty and Tyranny, Ameritopia, The Liberty Amendments, Plunder and Deceit, Rediscovering Americanism, and Unfreedom of the Press. Liberty and Tyranny spent three months at #1 and sold more than 1.5 million copies. His books Men in Black and Rescuing Sprite were also New York Times bestsellers. Levin is an inductee into the National Radio Hall of Fame and was a top adviser to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet. He holds a BA from Temple University and a JD from Temple University Law School.
Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized our Legal System by Senator Ted Cruz (2022). Senator Ted Cruz has dedicated his life to upholding the principles enshrined in our Constitution. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the Fourth Circuit and Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served as an associate deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush and later as solicitor general of Texas, arguing nine cases before the Supreme Court. Elected to the Senate in 2012, he is a member of the Judiciary Committee. His previous book is One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History.
Special Counsel Durham’s Executive Summary of the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham (2023). In April 2019, U.S. Attorney General Willima Barr tasked Durham with overseeing a review of the origins of the Russia investigation and to determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate.” Barr disclosed in December 2020 that he had elevated Durham’s status to Special Counsel. Durham had previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney in various positions in D.C. for 35 years.
America’s National Debt:Examining the Facts by Thomas Arndt (2022). Thomas Arndt, PhD, is an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at The College of New Jersey. He has also lectured at Princeton University, Park University, Rowan University and Rutgers University – Newark covering a range of topics such as American Government, Congress & the Legislative Process, U.S. Foreign Policy, International Relations, Intelligence & National Security, and Political Debate. Dr. Arndt also consults as a subject matter expert for publishers, such as Sage and Pearson to build curriculum for online courses and to help revise new editions of textbooks in the field. Dr. Arndt received his MA, MS, and PhD in Political Science and Global Affairs from Rutgers University – Newark.
Enlightenment Now:The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker (2019). Steven Pinker is a Canadian American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is the Johnstone Family Professor at Harvard University, and his academic specializations are visual cognition and developmental linguistics. Pinker is the author of nine books for general audiences, The Language Instinct; How the Mind Works; Words and Rules; The Blank Slate; The Stuff of Thought; The Sense of Style; The Better Angels of Our Nature; Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why is Matters; and Enlighten Me Now. In 2004, Pinker was named in Time’s “Most Influential People in the World Today,” and in the years 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2011 in Foreign Policy’s list of “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
The Great Reset:Rise of 21st Century Fascism by Glenn Beck (2022). Glenn Beck, radio and television host and founder of The Blaze.com, has written 21 bestselling books and is one of the few authors in history to have had #1 national bestsellers in the fiction, nonfiction, self-help, and children’s picture gook genres. He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a popular talk-radio nationally syndicated on Premiere Radio networks as well as hosting the Glen Beck television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, from January 2009 to June 2011 on Fox News, and now airs on TheBlaze. Beck is also the producer of For the Record on The Blaze.
Neutering the National Debt: How Reagan Got It Right, and How Today’s Left and Right Get It Wrong by Steven Conover (2015). Steve Conover has contributed dozens of articles to the American Enterprise Institute’s online magazine, American.com. since 2011. For the last 20 years he has been writing on many of the topics covered in this book, including nearly a decade of blogging as “The Skeptical Optimist” Recently retired from a senior management role with a Fortune 50 operation, he holds a B.S. in Engineering, MBA in Finance, and PhD in political economy.
Never Give an Inch by Mike Pompeo (2023). Mike Pompeo served as the 17th secretary of state of the United States of America and as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Trump Administration. A native of Southern California, Mike graduated first in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1986. He served as a cavalry officer in the US Army before graduating from Harvard Law School. He was the CEO of two businesses in his home state of Kansas before representing the Fourth District of Kansas in the US House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017. He is currently a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute.
America’s #1 Adversary and What We Must Do About It – Now! By John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, and Richard Levine (2020). John M. Poindexter, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the California Institute of Technology, is a nuclear physicist and a former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Robert C. McFarlane, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, the Geneva Graduate Institutes, and the National Defense University, is chairman of an international energy company and a former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Richard B. Levine, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School, is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Technology Transfer and Security Assistance and a former NSC Staff Director for Policy Development.
Imprimis:The Rise of Wokeness in the Military by Thomas Spoehr (2022). Thomas Spoehr is director of the Center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation. He served previously for over 36 years in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of Lieutenant General. He earned a B.A. from William and Mary, an M.S. from Webster University, and a M.A. from the U.S. Army War College. While in the Army, he served in numerous leadership roles, including senior positions in the Pentagon and Commandant of the Army’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear School. His operational experiences include service with the 82nd Airborne Division of the 1st Armored Division. He participated in the 1983 invasion of Grenada, and in 2011 he served as Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Forces Iraq.
China Military Power 2019: Modernizing a force to fight and Win a Report by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. (2019).
The Fourth Turning:What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny by William Strauss and Neil Howe (1997). William Strauss and Neil Howe are the authors of Generations: The History of America’s Future and 13-GEN and former partners of the consulting firm LifeCourse Associates. Straus was a renowned speaker, writer, historian, and playwright. He was also the co-founder of the Capitol Steps, a political cabaret. Howe is a historian and economist who speaks frequently on generations, the economy, and social change. He is also the managing director of demography at Hedgeye, president of Saeculum Research, and a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Global Aging Institute.
The Courage to Be Free:Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival by Governor Ron DeSantis ((2023). Ron DeSantis is Florida’s 46th governor and one of the few American statemen to receive bipartisan praise for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. An honors graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School, he served as an officer in the US Navy and an adviser to a SEAL commander in Iraq, earning the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and the Bronze Star. In 2012 he was elected to Congress, where he served on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He is married to Emmy Award-winning anchor Casey DeSantis and is a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff (2019). Shoshana Zuboff is the author of three books, each of which signaled the start of a new epoch in technological society. In the late 1980s, In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw how computers would revolutionize the modern workplace. At the dawn of the 21st century, The Support Economy predicted the rise of a digitally distributed capitalism of services tailored to the individual. Today, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism reveals a world in which technology users are no longer customers but the raw material for an entirely new industrial system. Dr. Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emerita at Harvard Business School and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
Why American Power Endures:The U.S.–Led Order Isn’t in Decline by G. John Ikenberry (2022). John Ikenberry is a theorist of international relations and United States Foreign Policy and the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is known for his work on liberal International Relations theory, such as the books After Victory (2001) and Liberal Leviathan (2011). He has also been described as “the world’s leading scholar of the liberal international order. Ikenberry served on the State Department’s Policy Planning staff from 1991 to 1992. He was a Senior Associate of the Carnegie endowment for International Peace from 1992 to 1993, a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Cener for Scholars from 1998 to 1999, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1997 to 2002. He has also worked for several projects of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Decades of Decadence;How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America’s Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity by Marco Rubio (2023). Marco Rubio has represented Florida in the United States Senate since 2010, where he has one guiding objective: bring the American Dream back into the reach of those who fell it slipping away. Senator Rubio currently serves as vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where he oversees our nation’s intelligence and national security apparatus. Senator Rubio is also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, where he fights to promote human rights and America’s interests around the globe; the powerful Appropriations Committee, which allocates funding for the federal government; and the Special Committee on Aging, dedicated to the needs of older Americans. In addition, Senator Rubio serves on the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, which works to help small businesses thrive in the 21st century. As the former chairman of this committee, Rubio authored the historic Paycheck Protection Program, which has been a lifeline to millions of small businesses and American workers as they battled economic hardship in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace by Nikki Haley (2019). Nikki Haley serves as United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2019. She previously served as Governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017.
The Decisive Decade:American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China by Janathan D. T. Ward (2023). Dr. Johathan Ward has advised the U.S. Department of Defense and briefed numerous U.S. government audiences including U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Strategy Division of the U.S. Naval Staff. Through his consulting company, Atlas Organization, he has advised leading American companies in technology, manufacturing, and finance among other strategic sectors, as well as helping them understand U.S.-China global competition, improve their risk assessments on China, and build new global strategies that can withstand historic geopolitical change. He has been studying China, Russia, and India for nearly twenty years since his undergraduate days in Russian and Chinese language at Columbia University. He earned his PhD in China-India relations at the University of Oxford, utilizing Chinese language archives that are now closed to the world. Dr. Ward lived and traveled globally for over a decade including in China, India, Russia, Latin America, and the Middle East where he learned Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Syrian and Egyptian Arabic, among other languages. Dr. Ward is the author of China’s Vision of Victory a guide to the global grand strategy of the Chinese government and is a frequent commentator on national and international media with appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, Fox, MSNBC, and CNN International.
The Fourth Turning is Here:What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End by Neil Howe (2023). Neil Howe is a historian, economist, and demographer who writes and speaks frequently on generational change, American history, and long-term fiscal policy. He coauthored seven books with William Strauss, including Generations (1991), 13th Gen (1993), The Fourth Turning (1997), and Millennials Rising (2000). Howe’s other books include On Borrowed Time (with Peter G. Peterson, 1988), and Graying of the Great Powers (with Richard Jackson, 2008). He is managing director of demography for Hedgeye, an investment advisory firm. He is also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Global Aging Institute. He holds graduate degrees in history and economics from Yale University.
Defund the Police!? by Jasper Castro (2020). Jasper Castro has spent the majority of his adult life working in social services, mental healthcare, and as a police officer. He currently holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and a master’s degree in psychology.
The War on Cops by Heather MacDonald (2017). Heather MacDonald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal, where she reports on crime, culture, race, and education. Congress has asked her to testify on sentencing reform, policing, and immigration, and she frequently appears on TV and radio programs. She is the author of numerous books including The Diversity Delusion, When Race Trumps Merit, Are Cops Racist?, The Burden of Bad Ideas, The Immigrations Solution, and Unlocking the Census with GIS. The War on Cops is a New York Times bestseller.