Christopher Hurt Audio

If Bangladesh and Fremont, California have the same number of people per square mile, why didn't...

This sound primer of basic economics written in plain English provides all you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask.

“How did Arkman Noah/Provide for protozoa?” It’s not often that an acclaimed historian is revealed to be the author of light verse…

In one of the most important books of our time, Allan Bloom, a professor of social thought...

This astonishing story tells of a young American who accompanied his parents to the Soviet Union where his father was to set up a Ford Motor plant.

Howard Hughes had always been different. Raised by overprotective parents, pathologically fearful of germs, unable to make friends, he grew into a man ruled by madness. Here is the full story of the reclusive industrialist, the powerful, curious man whose name called up visions of untold wealth.

Carlos Baker brings into sharp focus a writer whose life itself was the stuff of legend.

Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury's classic novel of censorship and defiance, as resonant today as it was when it was first published more than 50 years ago.

The Fountainhead is an unprecedented phenomenon in modern literature. Arguably the century's...

Robert E. Lee is one of the greatest tragic figures of American history.

Michael Levine, one of the top public relations counselors in the country, reveals the same procedures he uses every day to get press on major stars…

For many years Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charles Citrine were the best of friends - Humboldt a grand erratic figure, Charlie a young man of frenzied and noble longings...

First published in 1935, when Americans were still largely oblivious to the rise of Hitler in Europe, this prescient novel tells a cautionary tale of the fragility of democracy and offers an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.

Monticello, the labor of a lifetime and possibly the most creative endeavor of an immensely creative mind, is a fitting avenue by which to approach the life of Thomas Jefferson.

Are the Kennedys the brilliant, heroic, extraordinary people their admirers believe them to be?

When the Reagan administration named C. Everett Koop, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States, there was much derision.

Buried deep within the consciousness of Sergeant Raymond Shaw is the mechanism of an assassin...

The Naked Public Square is Neuhaus’s masterpiece. In this work, Neuhaus uses his central metaphor, the naked public square, to describe the empty and uncomely condition of today’s political doctrine…

In The Natural, Bernard Malamud has raised all the passion and craziness and fanaticism of baseball to its ordained place in mythology.

In July 1947, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter for France, planning to stay for the summer.

A lone humorist attempts to explain the entire U.S. Government. Adopting the manner of a...

What is the Republican Party Reptile? It is neoconservatism with its pants down around its ankles…

The most famous science fiction novel written, Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man.

Stonewall Jackson was a military genius at once peculiar and perfect, a fearless soldier in battle but a God-fearing man who hesitated to kill on Sunday.

Thunder Gods is the compelling first-hand account of the pilots who pledged themselves to die for their emperor in the closing days of the Pacific War.