A passion for truth presents the best and most representative writings of Eric Breindel, the internationally renowned conservative thinker who for more than a decade ran the editorial page of the New York Post and was one of New York's most eloquent and influential voices. 
 Before his sudden death in March 1997 at the age of forty-two, Eric Breindel has already done more--and suffered more--than many people twice his age. At his funeral his eulogists made up a who's who of power and influence: Mayor Ed Koch, Governor George Pataki, Norman Podhoretz, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who introduces this volume. 
 Breindel was a star early. He wrote editorials for the New Republic during his early years at Harvard College, where he was editorial chairman if the Harvard Crimson and graduated magna cum laude. He received graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and Harvard Law School before he was twenty-five--and all this despite a series of injuries and physical maladies that kept him in constant pain. 
 Caring deeply about politics--at the time he was a Democrat with neoconservative views on foreign policy--Breindel moved to Washington in 1983 and went to work for Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the Senate Intelligence Committee staff. At thirty he returned to journalism and was hired to run the New York Post's editorial and op-ed pages, also writing a weekly column called "Agendas." Over the next eleven years, in more than five hundred columns, Breindel came back relentlessly and passionately to only three topics: Communism, Israel and the fate of the Jews, and the fall and rise of New York City. All three were intimately connected for Breindel, the child of Holocaust survivors who made a new life for themselves in the United States. 
 In A Passion for Truth, John Podhoretz, Breindel's friend, colleague, and successor as the Post's editorial page editor, has selected sixty-nine of the "Agendas" columns, grouped them by major theme, and introduced and commented on them. 
 These collected columns, which show Breidel at his most intellectually, politically, and emotionally engaged, bring a special richness of insight, analysis, and emotion to some of our most important and compelling issues.

A Passion for Truth: The Selected Writings Of Eric Breindel

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Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Harper

Our Worst Nightmare—and How to Avoid It It’s the ultimate nightmare scenario for conservatives: to awaken on the morning of November 5, 2008, to the news that the last swing state has been colored bright blue and Hillary Rodham Clinton is the President-elect of the United States. Could it really happen? Frighteningly, yes. In fact, as bestselling author and leading conservative commentator John Podhoretz reveals, this is not just a scary “what if” scenario; it will happen . . . unless conservatives take immediate action. Sounding the alarm bell with wit and verve, Can She Be Stopped? shows that Hillary’s plan to capture the White House is much further along than her enemies fear. Podhoretz uncovers the host of reasons why—many of them counterintuitive. He also destroys the comfortable myths about Clinton that conservatives cling to: She’s saddled with too many “high negatives.” She’s too liberal to get elected. “Clinton fatigue” will keep her out of the Oval Office. You’ve heard them all, and they’re wrong on every count. After shaking Republicans out of their complacency, Podhoretz lays out the precise strategy conservatives must deploy to stop Hillary dead in her tracks. His groundbreaking ten-point plan of action reveals: • How to expose the real, ultraliberal Hillary • How to "smoke her out" and prevent her from hiding on key issues • How to make her denounce popular Republican programs—and defend unpopular liberal ideas • How to use her Senate seat as a weapon against her • How to overcome the Republican Party’s own problems • Whom the Republicans should nominate (and the choice may surprise you) Conservatives can’t avoid the Hillary problem any longer, or else the nation will be forced to endure another Clinton in the White House. Fortunately, John Podhoretz is here with the detailed blueprint that will spare the country from that disastrous turn of events, in a book as puckishly lively as it is sobering. Can she be stopped? Yes—but only if we get to work . . . now.

Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless . . .

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Crown Forum

Our Worst Nightmare—and How to Avoid ItIt’s the ultimate nightmare scenario for conservatives: to awaken on the morning of November 5, 2008, to the news that the last swing state has been colored bright blue and Hillary Rodham Clinton is the President-elect of the United States. Could it really happen?Frighteningly, yes. In fact, as bestselling author and leading conservative commentator John Podhoretz reveals, this is not just a scary “what if” scenario; it will happen . . . unless conservatives take immediate action. Sounding the alarm bell with wit and verve, Can She Be Stopped? shows that Hillary’s plan to capture the White House is much further along than her enemies fear. Podhoretz uncovers the host of reasons why—many of them counterintuitive. He also destroys the comfortable myths about Clinton that conservatives cling to: She’s saddled with too many “high negatives.” She’s too liberal to get elected. “Clinton fatigue” will keep her out of the Oval Office. You’ve heard them all, and they’re wrong on every count. After shaking Republicans out of their complacency, Podhoretz lays out the precise strategy  conservatives must deploy to stop Hillary dead in her tracks. His groundbreaking ten-point plan of action reveals:•  How to expose the real, ultraliberal Hillary•  How to "smoke her out" and prevent her from hiding on key issues •  How to make her denounce popular Republican programs—and defend unpopular liberal ideas•  How to use her Senate seat as a weapon against her•  How to overcome the Republican Party’s own problems•  Whom the Republicans should nominate (and the choice may surprise you)Conservatives can’t avoid the Hillary problem any longer, or else the nation will be forced to endure another Clinton in the White House. Fortunately, John Podhoretz is here with the detailed blueprint that will spare the country from that disastrous turn of events, in a book as puckishly lively as it is sobering. Can she be stopped? Yes—but only if we get to work . . . now.From the Hardcover edition.

Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless...

Social Sciences

Three Rivers Press

In this rousing, persuasive, and hugely entertaining book, John Podhoretz says that George W. Bush has earned a place in the pantheon of great American chief executives---and shows in one amazing detail after another how Bush's success has driven some of his critics into a pathological frenzy. Podhoretz is the first to acknowledge that the odds were stacked against Dubya, the inexperienced Texas governor who took up residence in the White House lacking an electoral majority, dogged by widely publicized verbal mishaps, and widely viewed by the American elite as a lightweight. But to the delight of his friends and the teeth-gnashing frustration of liberals, George W. Bush has proven himself an immensely effective president. Throughout his three years in the White House, as Podhoretz explains, Dubya has outsmarted, out-maneuvered, out-articulated, and outshone adversaries and critics. Steeled by the tragedy of September 11, the new president took a nation more obsessed with reality television than with the reality of international terrorism and girded it for the long struggle that lay ahead. He has presided over two major military campaigns to stunning success, initiated tax cuts whose dimensions have awed critics and fans alike, and brought his party into the twenty-first century. He has been resourceful, disciplined, and independent-minded---so much so that he was able to reject his own father's governing style as president to find his own voice and his own place in history. Bush hasn't hoarded his political capital, but has used it in bold and unexpected ways. Instead of bowing to conventional wisdom and carving out a centrist position, he has remained true to his ideological roots. Instead of deferring to established Beltway thinking, he has done what he thinks is best for America and the world. As Bush has grown more presidential, the criticisms of him have grown more intense---and, in Podhoretz's view, crazier and crazier. In a series of short chapters, Podhoretz takes a rhetorical scalpel to eight of the wildest caricatures of Bush and leaves them in hilarious shreds. In a season of broadsides being fired from both sides of the aisle, here is a book that distinguishes itself by the force of its arguments and the ringing clarity of its thought. Impassioned, insightful, and convincing, Bush Country is an analysis of a presidency gone right and a celebration of a 0man who has already earned his place in history.

Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

St.Martin's Press

Bush Country: How George W. Bush Became the First Great Leader of the 21st Century---While Driving Liberals Insane

St. Martin's: Griffin

A Reagan-Bush staffer and speechwriter presents behind-the-scenes revelations of a presidency winding up for a collective breakdown

Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993

History

Americas

Simon&Schuster

Combining acerbic wit with insider political savvy, one of America’s most entertaining journalists tells readers why George W. Bush is not only the Right Man at the Right Time, but has become the greatest Leader of the Age George W. Bush arrived in the White House an untested governor with an unfortunate habit of tripping over his own tongue, presiding over an economy slipping into recession, and a nation more obsessed with reality television than with the reality of international terrorism. He was considered by many opinion-leaders a dupe, an illiterate, a cowboy, a preppie, a child of privilege who would never have made it to the White House without the help of his ex-president father. Now, with his first term coming to an end, it is clear to John Podhoretz that Bush has become—and will be remembered—as one of this nation’s strongest leaders. He has changed the country’s agenda from top to bottom. Steeled by the tragedy of September 11, he has responded with visionary power and towering authority. He has presided over victories in two wars and a triumphant repositioning of his party. His secret: The willingness to spend political capital rather than hoard it. Bush Country makes its case with style and verve. Here is an engrossing and entertaining portrait that proves that “misunderestimating” our forty-third president is folly indeed.

MacMillan Audio

The best-selling author of Bush Country explains how the presidency of George H. W. Bush has set the stage for a political victory for Hillary Clinton, discussing her advantages over other Democratic and Republican candidates and offering a detailed blueprint for derailing her political victory in the next presidential race.

Presidenta Clinton/ President Clinton: Luces y Sombras de la Mujer que Podria Liderar La Nacion Mas Poderosa Del Mundo/ Lights and Shadows of Women Who Could Lead the USA (Spanish Edition)

Planeta Publishing

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A Passion for Truth: The Selected Writings Of Eric Breindel

Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless . . .

Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless...

Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane

Bush Country: How George W. Bush Became the First Great Leader of the 21st Century---While Driving Liberals Insane

Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993

Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane

Presidenta Clinton/ President Clinton: Luces y Sombras de la Mujer que Podria Liderar La Nacion Mas Poderosa Del Mundo/ Lights and Shadows of Women Who Could Lead the USA (Spanish Edition)