The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in ...

"Lewis R. Redmond was an archetypal moonshiner. On March 1, 1876, the twenty-one-year-old North Carolinian shot and killed a U.S. deputy marshal who tried to arrest him on charges of illicit distilling. He then fled to Pickens County, South ...

Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark society's contemporary condition. Sept. 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understond or ...

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"Garet Garrett wrote one last, and truly spectacular, novel called Harangue (The Trees Said to the Bramble Come Reign Over Us). The words are from the Bible (Judges 9:15), and the metaphor here refers to the strange penchant of the rich to fund ...

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press For 50 years Garrett's The People's Pottage has stood as one of the seminal works outlining the intellectual debate that raged over Roosevelt's ambitious restructuring of the ...

Who started World War One? That is the all encompassing question Garet Garrett, accomplished economist, asks in this classic book from 1921. The amazing thing about this book, apart from its insightfullness into what or who really started World ...

These eloquent columns took the losing side in the most momentous foreign-policy debate of the 20th century: whether, and in what way, to take sides in World War II in Europe.