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The Prince of the City Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life
In this first post-9/11 account of the career of the man who established himself as “America’s Mayor” in the dark days after America was attacked, Fred Siegel shows how Rudy Giuliani’s successes in New York–restoring law and order, cutting taxes and radically reducing the welfare rolls–demonstrated that Gotham was indeed “governable” (a matter of doubt until his election) and that our major cities might again become vibrant and dynamic places to live after thirty years of middle-class flight.
The Prince of the City Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life
The Prince of the City is at once a fascinating character study of one of America’s most charismatic public figures, a history of New York over the last forty years, and a classic inquiry into the issue of how cities thrive or die. Siegel’s story culminates with a dramatic account of September 11, 2001, revealing how Giuliani’s s eight years in office had prepared him and the city to rise to this tragic occasion and how in the aftermath of the attack he became America’s Mayor.
The Encounter Books Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Gala Celebrating a quarter-century of great books in defense of the Western Tradition
On October 11, 2023, Encounter Books celebrated twenty five years of publishing great books in defense of the Western Tradition with a black tie Gala at The National Building Museum in Washington, DC. To mark the occasion, Encounter honored Joshua T. Katz with The Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom and Victor Davis Hanson with The Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals.
Marco Grassi
Marco Grassi, of a Florentine family long active as collectors, dealers, and scholars of Renaissance art, completed undergraduate studies at Princeton. After military service, he trained as a fine arts conservator at the Uffizi in Florence, as well as in Rome and Zürich.
Land of Hope An Invitation to the Great American Story
For too long we’ve lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their country. Such a fresh retelling of the American story is especially needed today, to shape and deepen young Americans’ sense of the land they inhabit, help them to understand its roots and share in its memories, all the while equipping them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society.
“When the Steel Door of the Prison Cell Closes, It Closes for Good…” An Excerpt from 'Conviction Machine'
An Excerpt from ‘Conviction Machine’
Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and Executive Director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism (opportunityurbanism.org). He is Executive Editor of the widely read website NewGeography.com.
Land of Hope An Invitation to the Great American Story
We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to intelligent young Americans a coherent, persuasive, and inspiring narrative of their own country.
The Republic of Virtue How We Tried to Ban Corruption, Failed, and What We Can Do About It
Public corruption is the silent killer of our economy. We’ve spawned the thickest network of patronage and influence ever seen in any country, a crony capitalism in which business partners with government and transfers wealth from the poor to the rich. This is a betrayal of the Framers’ vision for America, and of the Constitution they saw as an anticorruption covenant.
Philip Hamburger
Philip Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He writes on constitutional law, including religious liberty, freedom of speech and the press, administrative power, and unconstitutional conditions.