Perhaps no other president's name is invoked by politicians as much as Ronald Reagan's. Every election, as presidential hopefuls jockey for the Republican nomination, each one claims to be a Reagan conservative. But are these candidates truly carrying on the mantle of Ronald Reagan, or are they abusing the memory of our great president? What did Ronald Reagan really believe? In 11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative, biographer Paul Kengor analyzes Ronald Reagan's speeches and actions to paint a full, accurate picture of his beliefs. Kengor identifies these principles that lie at the crux of Reagan's conservatism; Freedom, Faith, Family, Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life, American Exceptionalism, The Founders' Wisdom and Vision, Lower Taxes, Limited Government, Peace Through Strength, Anti-Communism, and Belief in the Individual. And it is through these principles that Reagan's modern emulators may create a successful, conservative future.
Many a politician has asked: What would Reagan do if he were president now? Where would Reagan stand on today's issues? Who is the next Ronald Reagan? Paul Kengor dissects Reagan's presidency and provides decisive conclusions. The answers to some of these questions may surprise conservatives and liberals alike.

11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative

Politics & Social Sciences

Kengor Ph.D., Paul

Politics & Government

Beaufort Books

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

In his memoir, Barack Obama omits the full name of his mentor, simply calling him "Frank." Now, the truth is out: Never has a figure as deeply troubling and controversial as Frank Marshall Davis had such an impact on the development of an American president.Although other radical influences on Obama—from Jeremiah Wright to Bill Ayers—have been scrutinized, the public knows little about Davis, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA, cited by the Associated Press as an "important influence" on Obama, one whom he "looked to" not merely for "advice on living" but as a "father" figure.While the Left has willingly dismissed Davis (with good reason), here are the indisputable, eye-opening facts: Frank Marshall Davis was a pro-Soviet, pro-Red China communist. His Communist Party USA card number, revealed in FBI files, was CP number 47544. He was a prototype of the loyal Soviet patriot, so radical that the FBI placed him on the federal government's Security Index. In the early 1950s, Davis opposed U.S. attempts to slow Stalin and Mao. He favored Red Army takeovers of Central and Eastern Europe, and communist control in Korea and Vietnam. Dutifully serving the cause, he edited and wrote for communist newspapers in both Chicago and Honolulu, courting contributors who were Soviet agents. In the 1970s, amid this dangerous political theater, Frank Marshall Davis came into Barack Obama's life.Aided by access to explosive declassified FBI files, Soviet archives, and Davis's original newspaper columns, Paul Kengor explores how Obama sought out Davis and how Davis found in Obama an impressionable young man, one susceptible to Davis's worldview that opposed American policy and traditional values while praising communist regimes. Kengor sees remnants of this worldview in Obama's early life and even, ultimately, his presidency.Kengor charts with definitive accuracy the progression of Davis's communist ideas from Chicago to Hawaii. He explores how certain elements of the Obama administration's agenda reflect Davis's columns advocating wealth redistribution, government stimulus for "public works projects," taxpayer-funding of universal health care, and nationalizing General Motors. Davis's writings excoriated the "tentacles of big business," blasted Wall Street and "greedy" millionaires, lambasted GOP tax cuts that "spare the rich," attacked "excess profits" and oil companies, and perceived the Catholic Church as an obstacle to his vision for the state—all the while echoing Davis's often repeated mantra for transformational and fundamental "change."And yet, The Communist is not unsympathetic to Davis, revealing him as something of a victim, an African American who suffered devastating racial persecution in the Jim Crow era, steering this justly angered young man on a misguided political track. That Davis supported violent and heartless communist regimes over his own country is impossible to defend. That he was a source of inspiration to President Barack Obama is impossible to ignore.Is Obama working to fulfill the dreams of Frank Marshall Davis? That question has been impossible to answer, since Davis's writings and relationship with Obama have either been deliberately obscured or dismissed as irrelevant. With Kengor's The Communist, Americans can finally weigh the evidence and decide for themselves.

The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor

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“All the news that’s fit to print.” That, of course, is the longtime motto of the New York Times, even as its pages for decades have featured the often questionable work of the likes of Walter Duranty and Herb Matthews, two reporters whose woefully misleading puff pieces on the likes of Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro served as fodder for the Communist Party line, a line that ran from Moscow to Havana to, strikingly enough, Manhattan, where the headquarters of the Times sat not far from the headquarters of Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Daily Worker. While the Times has always been liberal/“progressive,” and certainly not communist, readers could be forgiven for occasionally noticing lines in the Times not wildly different from the party line at New Masses or even Pravda. And when the Times did seem to toe the party line, it was not usually intentional; rather, it was usually a byproduct of well-intended liberal/progressive reporters being successfully misled by not-so-well-intended communist handlers. That, in fact, is what being duped is all about.

All the Dupes Fit to Print: Journalists Who Have Served as Tools of Communist Propaganda

History

Americas

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“All the news that’s fit to print.” That, of course, is the longtime motto of the New York Times, even as its pages for decades have featured the often questionable work of the likes of Walter Duranty and Herb Matthews, two reporters whose woefully misleading puff pieces on the likes of Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro served as fodder for the Communist Party line, a line that ran from Moscow to Havana to, strikingly enough, Manhattan, where the headquarters of the Times sat not far from the headquarters of Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and the Daily Worker. While the Times has long been liberal/“progressive,” and certainly not communist, readers could be forgiven for occasionally noticing lines in the Times not wildly different from the party line at New Masses or even Pravda. And when the Times did seem to toe the party line, it was not usually intentional; rather, it was usually a byproduct of well-intended liberal/progressive reporters being successfully misled by not-so-well-intended communist handlers. That is what being duped is all about. Unfortunately, it is also about (at times) inadvertently doing the work of our adversaries. In being misled and manipulated, duped liberals/progressives in the American media have at times unwittingly served as tools of communist propaganda, and have thereby helped change the course of history in favor of America’s adversaries. This book offers examples of journalists who have been duped by the communists, with disastrous results. "This book should be required reading for all journalism students." -- Cliff Kincaid, Investigative Journalist and President, America's Survival

All The Dupes Fit To Print: Journalists Who Have Served As Tools Of Communist Propaganda

The most important biographical record of the Reagan years--from the Reagan governorship to the 40th president's period in the White House--has not been written, until now: it is the story of Ronald Reagan's indispensable man, confidant, and single most important adviser: William P. Clark, known to many as simply The Judge. The reason Reagan had such trust in Clark was because Clark was a devout, orthodox, staunch Catholic who always put his faith first in life. It was Clark who turned Reagan around on the abortion issue. Clark's strong Catholicism is the rock of his whole life, and Reagan recognized and deeply respected that. With his record, resume, and the respect he earned from so many quarters, why did Bill Clark never pen an autobiography? Why did he never write memoirs, even while less influential advisers advanced their stories in the 1980s, proclaiming theirs to be the authoritative insider's account of the Reagan presidency? And why did Clark not write that story as everyone--from top Reagan officials such as Cap Weinberger to authoritative Reagan biographers such as Lou Cannon--urged him to do so? Bill Clark's reluctance to promote himself stopped him from picking up pen and paper. Instead, at long last, he acquiesced to the writing of this biography. Paul Kengor did the convincing, and Pat Clark Doerner worked with Clark to painstakingly review the manuscript--after Kengor and Doerner together wrote this fascinating account of one man's life, from a ranch house to the White House and then, again, back to the ranch--to what Ronald Reagan called the sunset of life. Reagan biographers such as Edmund Morris and major publications like the New York Times Magazine and Time all agree: Bill Clark was Ronald Reagan's single most trusted aide, perhaps the most powerful national security advisor in American history. His close relationship with Reagan allows special insight into the President as well as other close friends from the earliest Reagan years: Lyn Nofziger, Cap Weinberger and Bill Casey. Also featured are the exquisite Clare Boothe Luce; the elegant Nancy Reagan; the mercurial Alexander Haig; Britain's Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher; France's wily Francois Mitterrand, the saintly Pope John Paul II, and an anxious Saddam Hussein, among others. With Reagan, Clark accomplished many things, but none more profound than the track they laid to undermine Soviet communism, to win the Cold War. As this book shows, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clark, two ranchers, a president and his top hand, truly changed history. At long last, over two decades after that significant accomplishment, Bill Clark shares the details of that extraordinary effort, many of which--as readers of this book will learn--have never been reported. Includes 32 pages of photos, in black and white and color.

The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand

Leaders & Notable People

Ignatius Press

We are witnessing a watershed moment in American cultural history: the sabotaging of family and marriage. Extreme-left radicals have made their arguments and tried different tactics, from the early nineteenth century to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, but at long last they have the vehicle to make it happen: gay marriage. Now, as the legal definition of marriage rapidly changes, the floodgates are open, and the fundamental transformation of the American family will take on new speed and new dimensions. Efforts to redefine the family structure have been long at work, and there have been some influential forces on the far left and communist left that cannot and should not be ignored in that process.
In Takedown Paul Kengor exposes these origins, starting with Karl Marx, and traces them through the sordid history of people like Margaret Sanger, Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse, and assorted '60s radicals. What were once fringe concepts have become accepted by mainstream thought and are today welcomed by many legislators and judges. Kengor notes how in the not-so-distant past, today's leftists who are attacking traditional marriage would have loudly raised their voices but not caused any real damage. They would have been dismissed with no serious concern as left-wing cranks, crackpot German and Austrian atheistic philosophers and campus agitators. But now, with formal legalization of same-sex marriage afoot, they are getting what they’ve wanted for generations: the literal redefinition of the family.
Takedown exposes how gay marriage is serving as a Trojan horse for the far left to secure the final takedown of marriage that it has long wanted, and countless everyday Americans are oblivious to the deeper forces at work. Takedown takes no prisoners and bluntly shows the reader that even Karl Marx and his more anti-marriage comrade Engels would be dumbfounded at the mere thought that modern Americans would gladly join them in their rejection of God's design for natural marriage and the family.

Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage

World

WND Books

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11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative

11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative

The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor

The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor

All the Dupes Fit to Print: Journalists Who Have Served as Tools of Communist Propaganda

All The Dupes Fit To Print: Journalists Who Have Served As Tools Of Communist Propaganda

The Judge: William P. Clark, Ronald Reagan's Top Hand

Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage