books by James Piereson

books by James Piereson

books:

James Piereson

Political Tolerance and American Democracy
John L. Sullivan, James Piereson, ...

University Of Chicago Press, 1989

This path-breaking book reconceptualizes our understanding of political tolerance as well as of its foundations. Previous studies, the authors contend, overemphasized the role of education in explaining the presence of tolerance, while giving insufficient weight to personality and ideological factors. With an innovative methodology for measuring ...

The Pursuit of Liberty: Can the Institutions that Made America Great Serve as a Model for the World?
James Piereson

Encounter Books, 2008

A collection of 10 essays that have appeared in The American Spectator over the last year. Authors include James Q. Wilson, Norman Podhoretz, Andrew Roberts, Victor Davis Hanson, James Kurth, Lawrence E. Harrison, Daniel Johnson, Fouad Ajami, Natan Sharansky, and Micahel Novak. The Essayists examine how the ideals of liberty and limited ...

Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism

James Piereson

Encounter Books, 2007

JFK and the Punitive Liberals.
There are no guarantees when buying books. We often eagerly anticipate a release hoping it will be a classic but soon discover that it belongs on the ash heap of history alongside the collected works of Marx, recordings of the Back Street Boys, and every single movie ...

The rise & fall of the intellectual.(Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain)(Book review): An article from: ...
James Piereson

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3896 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with ...

Is manliness obsolete?(Manliness)(Book review): An article from: New Criterion
James Piereson

Thomson Gale, 2006

This digital document is an article from New Criterion, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3567 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any ...