A brilliant set of engaging essays.

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A rambling, but interesting, set of ruminations on consciousness, showing the total failure of materialism.

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How America was born in war.

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A compelling, perhaps prescient, work about future American glory.

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A famous, but somewhat strange, book from 1979.  Of the decline of American society from the perspective of fifty years ago.

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An excellent examination of ancient Persia, in its relations with the Roman Republic and Empire, with lessons for today's dumb war against Iran, that is, Persia.

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Carl Schmitt's detailed thoughts, after World War II, about the collapse of the pre-World War I order, and what might replace it--not that anything has yet, which is why the globe exists in disorder.

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An insightful, and infuriating, analysis of the forced decline of the profession of trucking, and what might be done about it.

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A voluminous history of the Percy family, who ruled the North of England for five hundred years.

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The first book from the estimable Theodore Judson, author of Fitzpatrick's War. An evocative study of a simple man's life, lived with honor in the face of adversity.  Nearly impossible to find, but below is a link to an (authorized) PDF. 

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