Calls for a return to a compassionate, caring approach to dealing with America's social problems, explaining how we have lost touch with the poor and how, through a personal, challenging, and spiritual charity, we can help alleviate poverty and suffering. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

RENEWING AMERICAN COMPASSION: A Citizen's Guide

Politics & Social Sciences

Olasky, Marvin

Social Sciences

Free Press

A timely look at the relationship between private morals and public politics profiles thirteen American statesmen, including Thomas Jefferson, John Kennedy, Booker T. Washington, and John Rockfeller, and offers a historical perspective on the current scandals in Washington. 17,500 first printing.

The American Leadership Tradition: Moral Vision from Washington to Clinton

Self-Help

From the "godfather of compassionate conservatism" and an influential advisor to presidential hopeful George W. Bush comes a definitive, thought-provoking blueprint of Bush's philosophy of government, one that argues that religious faith is essential to promote welfare programs.

Compassionate Conservatism: What It Is, What It Does, and How It Can Transform America

Business & Money

Economics

What makes a leader truly great? Is it simply a matter of management style or personality? Or does character matter and, if so, how much? Most Americans believe a president's private activities bear little relation to his public-policy decisions, yet we also believe that moral vision plays a role in strong leadership.In the first modern systematic examination of the bond between morals and politics, Marvin Olasky examines the lives and careers of thirteen noted American leaders, including the great, the good, and the deeply flawed, from George Washington, Henry Clay, and Booker T. Washington to Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton. Olasky looks closely at the connections between religion, sexual practices, and political decisions, examining the repeated connections between private character and public action. He explains how so-called "compartmentalization" proved to be as impossible for Lincoln as for Woodrow Wilson. A man's character shows its stamp repeatedly during a career.He reminds us that there have been principled men, like George Washington, alongside unprincipled ones, like Henry Clay, from the beginning. After reading this book it will be impossible to argue that John Kennedy's womanizing reflected a side of him that had absolutely nothing to do with his presidency, or that Abraham Lincoln's rectitude was unconnected with his greatness. Olasky shows that faithfulness in marriage may be no guarantee of faithfulness to the country, but faithlessness is a leading indicator of trouble. Leaders who break a large vow to one person find it easy to break relatively small vows to millions.

The American Leadership Tradition

Literature & Fiction

Blackstone Pub

The Religions Next Door: What we need to know about Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam - and what reporters are missing will educate readers as to the truth about world religions that the media often misrepresent. Our neighborhoods are full of religious diversity these days, but the media would have us believe they all hold different variations of the same tenets. But this isn’t so, and it is in those missed details that serious and grave misjustice is done to the American people by the misreporting of religion.The Religions Next Door provides insight into the beliefs of four growing religions in America, and challenges the media community to report religion as real news - not as community relations fodder, but as stories of human and theological interest.

The Religions Next Door: What we need to know about Hudaism,Hinduism,Buddhism and Islam and what reporters are missing

B&H Books

The Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee was a watershed moment in the history of this country. The ramifications of those proceedings are still being felt today. However, it is not necessarily the arguments from the courtroom floor that are reverberating in the halls of America today. The way the entire event was conducted and perceived by the rest of the nation set the tone for how creationists and evolutionists have been viewed by society ever since.Marvin Olasky and John Perry tell the true story in Monkey Business. Most people have a misunderstanding of what happened based on slanted newspaper reporting accounts of H. L. Menken, who made fun of creationists. As a result, the case for creationism has been crippled in the eyes of society. But this account of what happened is far from accurate. Monkey Business will offer the facts of the story and an apologetic for divine creation.

Monkey Business: The True Story Of The Scopes Trial

History

Perry, John

Americas

Former college roommates Hal Bogikian (newspaper columnist) and Malcolm Edwards (university professor), both atheists, disagree on most major issues. But they remain associates through the efforts of Malcolm's aunt, Phoebe du Pont, a wealthy Christian widow. When du Pont invites the two men and her beautiful assistant, Sally Northaway, on a tourist and archeological trip to Turkey, the four Americans become the target of a terrorist's kidnapping plot in Scimitar's Edge.Readers will deeply know these memorable characters while also learning about Turkey, the savagery of history, and competing philosophies of life. Along the way, there are razor-sharp thriller sequences and a budding romance as well.

Scimitar's Edge: A Novel

United States

B&H Fiction

Why was the government not capable of responding to human need in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? How will the "Katrina failure" impact the next presidential election? And just what should we expect--and not expect--from the government in times of crisis?
"Big government didn't work," says veteran journalist and political analyst Marvin Olasky. "And it is clear that a new paradigm for responding to national crisis has emerged. Private and faith-based organizations have stepped in and politics will never be the same."

The Politics of Disaster: Katrina, Big Government, And a New Strategy for Future Crises

W Pub Group

Book by Scholssberg, Herbert, Olasky, Marvin N., Schlossberg, Herbert

Turning Point: A Christian Worldview Declaration (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Schlossberg, Herbert

Fieldstead Institute

Christian Books & Bibles

Crossway Books

While claiming to be neutral, print and TV journalists often report the news from an anti-Christian point of view. Yet remarkably, in the nineteenth century many leading newspapers were Christian. What went wrong?

Prodigal Press: The Anti-Christian Bias of American News Media (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series)

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