In this spirited survey of liberal lies and dirty tricks, Brad Miner, one of America's leading conservative insiders, offers a look at the American liberal tradition of slander, insult, and character assassination throughout history. Smear Tactics mines both today's papers and the classic campaigns of history for tales of liberal deception and manipulation. Tracing smears from the early days of our nation right through the run-up to the 2008 elections, Miner highlights the Left's most atrocious campaigns against:
<ul>
<li>Soldiers: The media's attacks on our troops, from Vietnam to Iraq</li>
<li>The Faithful: The Left's campaign to vilify Christians in American life</li>
<li>Entrepreneurs: Is the American Dream dead? The Left says yes, and Girl Scout cookies, Wal-Mart, and Legos have all played a part.</li>
<li>President Bush: He caused global warming and Hurricane Katrina? Smears against the man the Left loves to hate. </li>
</ul>
As Brad Miner shows, American politics has never been a sport for gentlemen—but recent campaigns have proven dirtier than ever, full of negative ads, rumormongering, and worse. With the coming election a wide-open race, full of polarizing candidates of all stripes, the mud is about to start flying across the American landscape, and in Smear Tactics Brad Miner returns the fire—with a vengeance.

Smear Tactics: The Liberal Campaign to Defame America

Politics & Social Sciences

Miner, Brad

Politics & Government

Harper

American politics has never been a sport for gentlemen—but recent campaigns have proven dirtier than ever, full of negative ads, rumor-mongering, and worse. In Smear Tactics, one of America's leading conservative insiders offers a look at the American liberal tradition of slander, insult, and character assassination throughout history. With an election looming and the mud flying across the American landscape, Brad Miner returns the fire—with a vengeance.Read all about the Left's most atrocious campaigns against:Soldiers: the media's attacks on our troops, from Vietnam to Iraq;The Faithful: the campaign to vilify Christians in American life;Entrepreneurs: liberals have gleefully declared the American Dream corrupt . . . and dead;George W. Bush: the man the Left loves to hate.

Harper Paperbacks

For those unfamiliar with conservatism or for those already committed to its principles, this "briefing book" is a vital reference to the conservative point of view on today's most hotly debated issues. From Charles Murray on the power of community, to Richard John Neuhaus on the role of religion, to James Q. Wilson and George Kelling on urban crime, to Thomas Sowell on the implications of multiculturalism, Good Order sets the agenda for today's conservative. In the variety of its contributors and the scope of its subject matter, this collection provides a fascinating overview of the broad - and surprising - range of ideas that constitute the conservative movement as we move into the next century. Whether you are a conservative gearing up for the next election and want the right ammunition, or are undecided and want to know where conservatives stand on the key questions of our time, Good Order is the right book to discover the Right's best ideas.

Good Order: Right Answers to Contemporary Questions

Touchstone

In a personal view of the conservative movement, a freelance journalist examines the origins, current trends, and possibilities for the future of conservatism, from abortion to welfare, with sidebars along the way in which different contributors add their views of conservatism's history. Original. 15,000 first printing.

The CONCISE CONSERVATIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA: 200 of the Most Important Ideas, Individuals, Incitements, and Institutions that Have Shaped the Movement

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Free Press

Reviving a thousand-year tradition of chivalry, honor, and heroism, The Compleat Gentleman provides the essential model for twenty-first-century masculinity, the oldest and best ideal of manhood: the gentleman.

The Compleat Gentleman: Library Edition

Words, Language & Grammar

Blackstone Pub

At a time of astonishing confusion about what it means to be a man, Brad Miner has recovered the oldest and best ideal of manhood: the gentleman. Reviving a thousand-year tradition of chivalry, honor, and heroism, The Compleat Gentleman provides the essential model for twenty-first-century masculinity. Despite our confusion, real manhood is not complicated. It is an ancient ideal based on service to one s God, country, family, and friends a simple but arduous ideal worthy of a lifetime of struggle. Miner s gentleman stands out for his dignity, restraint, and discernment. He rejects the notion that one way of behaving is as good as another. He belongs to an aristocracy of virtue, not of wealth or birth. Proposing neither a club nor a movement, Miner describes a lofty code of manly conduct, which, far from threatening democracy, is necessary for its survival. Miner traces the concept of manliness from the jousting fields of the twelfth century to the decks of the Titanic. The three masculine archetypes that emerge the warrior, the lover, and the monk all come together to make up the character of the compleat gentleman. This modern knight cultivates a martial spirit in defense of the true and the beautiful. He treats the opposite sex with the passionate respect required by courtly love. And he values learning in the pursuit of truth all with the discretion, decorum, and nonchalance that the Renaissance called sprezzatura. The Compleat Gentleman is filled with examples from the past and the present of the man our increasingly uncivilized age demands."

The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

Archer, Dale

Etiquette

Blackstone Audiobooks

At a time of astonishing confusion about what it means to be a man, Brad Miner has recovered the oldest and best ideal of manhood: the gentleman. Reviving a thousand-year tradition of chivalry, honor, and heroism, The Compleat Gentleman provides the essential model for twenty-first-century masculinity. Despite our confusion, real manhood is not complicated. It is an ancient ideal based on service to one's God, country, family, and friends--a simple but arduous ideal worthy of a lifetime of struggle. Miner's gentleman stands out for his dignity, restraint, and discernment. He rejects the notion that one way of behaving is as good as another. He belongs to an aristocracy of virtue, not of wealth or birth. Proposing neither a club nor a movement, Miner describes a lofty code of manly conduct, which, far from threatening democracy, is necessary for its survival. Miner traces the concept of manliness from the jousting fields of the twelfth century to the decks of the Titanic. The three masculine archetypes that emerge--the warrior, the lover, and the monk--all come together to make up the character of the "compleat gentleman." This modern knight cultivates a martial spirit in defense of the true and the beautiful. He treats the opposite sex with the passionate respect required by courtly love. And he values learning in the pursuit of truth--all with the discretion, decorum, and nonchalance that the Renaissance called sprezzatura. The Compleat Gentleman is filled with examples from the past and the present of the man our increasingly uncivilized age demands.

Arts & Photography

Blackstone Publishing

Neither prude, nor prig, nor fop, the gentleman is a classic combination of strength and selflessness, contemplation, correct action and, yes: cool. He is the aristocrat not of wealth or birth, but of virtue. Miner is too wise in the ways of young men to think they will respond to lectures or another guidebook on which fork to use. Instead he tells of an ideal and the men throughout history who have tried—always imperfectly—to live up to it. Three masculine archetypes emerge-the warrior, the lover, and the monk or scholar-and combine in the character of the compleat gentleman, who always practices his virtues with the discretion, decorum, and nonchalance that the Renaissance called sprezzatura, and we call cool.

The Compleat Gentelman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

Self-Help

Motivational

Richard Vigilante

Sons of Saint Patrick tells the story of America's premiere Catholic see, the archdiocese of New York―from the coming of French Jesuit priests in the seventeenth century to the early years of Cardinal Timothy Dolan. It includes many intriguing facets of the history of Catholicism in New York, including:
<ul>
<li>the early persecution of and legal discrimination against Catholics</li>
<li>the waves of catholic immigrants, most notably from Ireland</li>
<li>the Church's rise to power under New York's first archbishop, "Dagger" John Hughes</li>
<li>the emerging awareness in the Vatican of New York's preeminence</li>
<li>the clashes between America and Rome over the "Americanist" heresy</li>
<li>the role New York's archbishops have played in the life of America's greatest city―and in the world</li>
</ul>
The book focuses on the ten archbishops of New York and shows how they became the indispensable partners of governors and presidents, especially during the war-torn twentieth century. Also discussed are the struggles of the most recent archbishops in the face of demographic changes, financial crises, and clerical sex-abuse cases.
Sons of Saint Patrick is an objective but colorful portrait of ten extraordinary men―men who were saints and sinners, politicians and pastors, and movers and shakers who as much as any other citizens have made New York one of the greatest cities in the world. All ten archbishops have been Irish, either by birth or heritage, but given New York's changing ethnic profile, Cardinal Timothy Dolan may be the last son of Saint Patrick to serve as its archbishop.

Sons of Saint Patrick: A History of the Archbishops of New York, from Dagger John to Timmytown

Biographies & Memoirs

Marlin, George

Historical

Ignatius Press

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Smear Tactics: The Liberal Campaign to Defame America

Smear Tactics: The Liberal Campaign to Defame America

Good Order: Right Answers to Contemporary Questions

The CONCISE CONSERVATIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA: 200 of the Most Important Ideas, Individuals, Incitements, and Institutions that Have Shaped the Movement

The Compleat Gentleman: Library Edition

The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

The Compleat Gentelman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

Sons of Saint Patrick: A History of the Archbishops of New York, from Dagger John to Timmytown