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Growing Up Guggenheim: A Personal History of a Family Enterprise

3 reviews
Peter Lawson-Johnston

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

Growing up Guggenheim: A Personal History of a Family Enterprise
This is a wonderful tell all story about one of the most prestigious families in the United States told by a Guggenheim descendant who has been at the helm of the family empire for several decades. It is a historical biography of his family. The chapters on the Guggenheim Museum provide tremendous insight into the creation of the world wide Guggenheim Museum franchise. I enjoyed the chapter on ...

A Consumer's Guide to the Apocalypse: Why There is No Cultural War in America and Why We Will Perish ...

10 reviews
Eduardo Velasquez

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2007

Weston Frisk's review of A Consumer's Guide to the Apocalypse
Velasquez's A Consumer's Guide to the Apocalypse is a collection of commentaries on various aspects of modern popular culture, specifically the dark religious undercurrents of the song, movie and novel industry of America in the last decade. A fascination with Nihilism permeates American culture that is most easily seen in an assessment of these modern "artifacts," as Velasquez calls them. ...

American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia

7 reviews

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

A presentation of "modern" conservatism.
AMERICAN CONSERVATISM: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA is a monumental resource for anyone wishing to delve into the evolution of what I would term as "modern" conservatism. By that I mean, this is not a history of conservatism, dating back to its origins in American politics, but is rather a study of conservatism of the last thirty or so years. For me, that is this books only shortcoming. I would have loved ...

The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005

6 reviews

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

Major Step Forward for English Readers
This set is a major step forward to the presentation and understanding of Solzhenitsyn to English speaking readers. It is a process that will still take years, but I suspect this volume will be pivotal. In the early days, the writer's books were rushed into print with so-so or even poor translations because of their timelineness and importance. His exile to USA happened at the crest of his ...

The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays

3 reviews
Russell Kirk

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

Kirk at his best
Occasionally a great mind visits us and, for a time, informs us. During the last century, no man filled that role more efficiently or more productively than Russell Kirk. His scholarship, his writing style and his ability to use both in a way that bring the large problems of life, death and destiny into proper focus approached the uncanny. Although Kirk left teaching as a profession ...

Ironies of Faith: The Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature

3 reviews
Anthony Esolen

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2007

A scholarly scrutiny that dares to define the virtually indefinable.
Anthony Esolen (Professor of English, Providence College) presents Ironies of Earth: The Laughter at the Heart of Christian Literature, a thoughtful examination of irony in Christian art and life. Ironies of time, power, and love are discussed, as are the insights and interpretations of classic authors: Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolkien, Mauriac, Milton, Herbert, Hopkins, Dickens, ...

Deja Reviews: Florence King All Over Again: Selections from National Review and The American Spectator

5 reviews
Florence King

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

Thank you, Miss King!
I've long described Florence King as my favorite living writer (my favorite writer, period, is Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, who -- probably not coincidentally -- also wrote for "National Review" for many years). Yet I have avoided reviewing her books here, not only for fear of not doing them justice, but also because so much of how I try to review books has come from reading Florence King's own ...

The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being

5 reviews

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2007

Highly recommended, especially for public and college libraries.
Historian Richard M. Gamble edits The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What It Means to be an Educated Human Being is an anthology of essays written by great figures throughout history concerning what it truly means to be educated. Since ancient times, the Great Tradition has described education as the hard work the human soul undergoes in order to better understand itself and its maker. ...

A Century of Horrors: Communism, Nazism, and the Uniqueness of the Shoah (Crosscurrents)

4 reviews
Alain Besancon

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2007

Short book that dares to ask the big questions
The 20th century was cursed with two murderous ideologies: communism and Nazism. Nazism slaughtered 6 million Jews, while communism killed at least 100 million people, and managed to enslave vast swaths of the globe. Besancon wonders why Nazism has become the prototype for evil while communism's evils are largely ignored. In this important essay, Besancon points out the many ...

Wilhelm Ropke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist (Library of Modern Thinkers)

6 reviews
John Zmirak

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2001

Champion of Ordered Liberty, Tradition, and the Free-Market
Wilhelm Röpke is a brilliant German-born economic, social and political theorist, and perhaps my favorite amongst the "Austrian school." He stands apart from his colleagues in that he thinks on a more humane level rejecting crude utilitarian calculations in favor of sound empirical reasoning. The crux of Röpke's economic thought is that the individual counts. This brilliant German economist of ...

Creed & Culture: A Touchstone Reader

2 reviews

Intercollegiate Studies Inst, 2003

The Renewal of our Minds
I have no original thoughts to share that are not already addressed in the above reviews concerning the text itself. As they say, it is an excellent resource for spiritual and intellectual nourishment in an arid climate of flabby philosophy and sold out (bankrupt) and accommodating theology. I only want to reiterate what this book sets out to accomplish, namely that Christians are in the midst of ...

Civic Education and Culture

1 review

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2005

An intellectual study with the premise of collective social views and ideals
Ably compiled and deftly edited by C.S. Watson, Civic Education And Culture is an impressive collection of insightful writings on the societal understandings and constructs which are created as result of what teachings are allowed to shape national, worldly or local paradigms. As an intellectual study with the premise of collective social views and ideals, Civic Education And Culture is a ...

Bertrand De Jouvenel: Conserative Liberal & Illusions Of Modernity (Library of Modern Thinkers)

1 review
Daniel J. Mahoney

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2005

Mahoney's Jouvenel
Daniel J. Mahoney has published studies of Charles de Gaulle, Raymond Aron, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In his new book on Bertrand de Jouvenel, Mahoney continues his ever-widening exploration of the the religio-political question in modernity. Any of Mahoney's readers should recognize his characteristic strengths, once again in evidence here: the balanced critical judgment, the wide and deep ...

Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics

2 reviews
John R. Thelin

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

A view of college athletics.
Great look into the world of college athletics that you don't see on ESPN. Gives the readers a real look at what goes on; what's really involved in the world of college sports and the "student athlete". Great reading. You think that college athletics have become more show than competition? Well, read this book and come away with what really goes on. Excellent read.

Girls in Ponytails Chasing a Ball: The Rise of Women's Intercollegiate Soccer, 1972-2006

2 reviews
Bill Palmer

BookSurge Publishing, 2008

Goal!
Captivating book. From the moment I started reading it, I did not want to put it down. Soccer is an amazing sport and Palmer captures it all in his book. It covers the growth of the sport from 1972-2006. It is very nice to see a book written about girls playing a sport. It shows women in a fascinating and strong light.

A Student's Guide to Music History (Preston A. Wells Jr. Guide to the Major Disciplines)

3 reviews
R. J. Stove

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008

clear and succinct
I've enjoyed this book so much, and give great credit to both the author and publisher. It is intelligent, charming, and incredibly informative given its size. I'm using it in a class with some young teens, and they have loved it -- even if it is a bit over their level.

Students Guide To U.S. History: U.S. History Guide (Guides To Major Disciplines)

3 reviews
Wilfred M. Mcclay

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2000

great starting point or thematic overview
Over the past several years, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) has published a series of guides to college studies, ranging from history and literature to the core curriculum and liberal learning more generally. In this slim volume, Professor McClay develops a framework through which we might begin to view the unique entity that is American history (and America itself). McClay ...

Gleanings from an Unplanned Life: An Annotated Oral History

2 reviews
James L. Buckley

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006

Yale Goes to War
Besides a very good read of his varied life as a US Senator, US Circuit Judge, US Under Secretary of State, Judge Buckley's memoir is best when he discusses his life after Pearl Harbor. He was all over the South Pacific on an LST (Landing Ship Tank)and his memory of the action in the Battle of Leyte Gulf is amazingly vivid these 60 years later. In more than 2 years at sea, he slept only 5 nights ...

Stuck With Virtue (Religion and Contemporary Culture)

3 reviews
Peter Augustine Lawler

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2005

A Thoughtful Analysis of Biotechnology
This book is the best philosophical discussion of biotechnology that I have read to date. Not only does it avoid the utopian views of some authors, it is also not littered with footnotes and statistics. Addressing such issues as eugenics, genetic engineering, religion, and caring for the elderly, political theorist Peter Augustine Lawler delivers a concise yet deep book. For those of you ...

Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century

2 reviews
Russell Kirk

Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008

Of the Book in Question and the Amiable Goodness Thereof
Upon reading the aforementioned work by the great and amiable Englishman Russel Kirk, I have been forced to come to conclusion that the work is, in general, well-written and, in particular, quite enlightening. His explanations of Eliot's important poetical works are biographically sound, and are given support by cross-references to other prose pieces by Eliot himself (whether from Eliot's own ...

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