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Betty Friedan and the Birth of Modern Feminism by Scott Yenor

Thomas Jefferson: America's Philosopher Statesman by Dorothea Wolfson

Richard T. Ely: Progressive Political Economist and SocialGospel Advocate by Luigi Bradizza

Booker T. Washington and the Promise of Racial Reconciliation by Diana Schaub

John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice by Matthew Franck

The Conservative Mind of Russell Kirk by Lee Edwards

John Rawls: Theorist of Modern Liberalism by Jerome Foss

Barry M. Goldwater: The Most Consequential Loser in American Politics by Lee Edwards

Benjamin Franklin: The Sage of America by Steven Forde

Ronald Reagan: Conservative Statesman by Steven Hayward

James Madison: Father of the Constitution by Colleen Sheehan

Herbert D. Croly: Apostle of Progressivism by Sidney Pearson

Calvin Coolidge: Forefather of Our Conservatism by Joseph Postell

Constitutional Conservatives in the Progressive Era: Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, and Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. by Johnathan O'Neill

William F. Buckley Jr.: Conservative Icon by Lee Edwards

Theodore Roosevelt: Progressive Crusader by Jean M. Yarbrough

American Statesman: The Enduring Relevance of George Washington by Matthew Spalding

Woodrow Wilson: Godfather of Liberalism by Ronald Pestritto

 

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