Christopher Lane Audio

Angered by the post-September 11 criticism of the United States, a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-François Revel has written Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that comes to America’s defense.

In this series of essays written over the past twenty years, Roger Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and an art critic for the London Spectator, illuminates some of the chief spiritual itineraries of modern art.

This New York Times best-seller is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War, the rise of militant Islam, and how a colorful congressman from Texas conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the most successful covert operation in CIA history.

Ross Perot remains enigmatic. Is he the heroic businessman or a callous executive?

At a time of confusion about what it means to be a man, Brad Miner has recovered the oldest and best ideal of manhood: the gentleman.

In this Tracy-Hepburn romance, a down-to-earth newspaperman charms a sophisticated New York author…

The Deputy Editor of "Field & Stream"magazine gives an account of his following the fall run of the striped bass from Maine to North Carolina. For three months in 2001 he traveled, and along the way, he experienced the colorful creatures of the seaside communities where the striped bass reigns supreme.

This superb book tells the story of the men and women of the Office of Stategic Services (OSS) during World War II.

Begun in 1959 by a then twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico,in the late 1950s.

In this panorama Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility for neatly dissecting the political monoliths of the era.

The master editor of some of the most successful writers of our century shares his craft techniques and strategies, including how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, and how to create interesting writing in the first place.

An extraordinary novel from multiple award winner John Updike--the story of 18-year-old Ahmad, whose devotion to Allah and the sacred words of the Qur'an, as revealed to him by the local imam, leads him to commit himself to an act of terror.

An extraordinary novel from multiple award winner John Updike--the story of 18-year-old Ahmad, whose devotion to Allah and the sacred words of the Qur'an, as revealed to him by the local imam, leads him to commit himself to an act of terror.

When writer Barnaby Conrad checked into the Betty Ford Center, time was running out.