Remembering Barry Goldwater

By |2016-10-27T19:38:58-05:00January 10th, 2013|Categories: Books, Bradley J. Birzer, Conservatism, Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley Jr.|

William F. Buckley, Jr., Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater (Basic Books, 2008). Buckley’s book, Flying High, is much more a memoir of the conservative movement in the early 1960s than it is a biography of Goldwater. Indeed, without the subtitle and the book dust jacket bearing a picture of Goldwater campaigning in 1964, this might very well have [...]

James Madison and the Making of America

By |2020-06-22T15:20:14-05:00January 10th, 2013|Categories: American Republic, Books, Constitution, James Madison, Kevin Gutzman|Tags: |

It is “dearest to my heart and dearest in my convictions,” the dying James Madison said, “that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.” It was this Union, conceived, framed, ratified, explained, implemented, defended, and cherished by Madison, that Kevin Gutzman cogently and rightly sees as the essential “making of America.” James Madison [...]

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