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  • Spoiled Rotten

    How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic

    by Jay Cost ...
    A popular columnist for The Weekly Standard, conservative journalist Jay Cost now offers a lively, candid, diligently researched revisionist history of the Democratic Party. In Spoiled Rotten, Cost reveals that the national political organization, first formed by Andrew Jackson in 1824, that has always prided itself as the party of the poor, the working class, the little guy is anything but that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Price of Greatness

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy

    by Jay Cost ...
    An incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequal nationIn the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's bitterly personal falling out. Together they helped bring the Constitution into being, yet soon after the new republic was ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • James Madison

    America's First Politician

    by Jay Cost ...
    **An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it **How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Republic No More

    Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption

    by Jay Cost ...
    After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin’s response: A Republic-if you can keep it.”This book argues: we couldn’t keep it.A true republic privileges the common interest above the special interests. To do this, our Constitution established an elaborate system of checks and balances that disperses power among ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What's So Bad About Cronyism?

    by Jay Cost ...
    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    Cronyism is a serious problem in the United States, but unfortunately it is still not very well understood. In this new essay, Jay Cost explains what it is, and why we should be so worried about it. By mingling private and public interests, cronyism costs us hundreds of billions of dollars per year and threatens to transform our republic into an oligarchy, where the rich dominate the middle class. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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    James Madison

    America's First Politician

    by Jay Cost ...
    Narrated by Dan Woren ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 43 min

    **An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it **How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history; his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    The Price of Greatness

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy

    by Jay Cost ...
    Narrated by Dan Woren ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    An incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequal nationIn the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's bitterly personal falling out. Together they helped bring the Constitution into being, yet soon after the new republic was ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A gripping thriller about a man’s quest for the daughter no one else believes is still alive, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place.An ID Book Club Selection • “C. J. Tudor is terrific. I can’t wait to see what she does next.”—Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling authorQ: Why are you called the Other People?A: We are people just like you... ... Read more

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    The Last Days of Night

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    Case Histories

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    by Kate Atkinson ...
    Narrated by Susan Jameson ...
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    The first book in Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie Mysteries series, called "The best mystery of the decade" by Stephen King, finds private investigator Jackson Brodie following three seemingly unconnected family mysteries in Edinburg.Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night.Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack.Case three: A new ... Read more

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    Ghost Story

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    #1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub’s classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past...What was the worst thing you’ve ever done?In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives.But one story is coming back to ... Read more

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    Narrated by Rinker Buck ...

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the PEN New England Award“Enchanting…A book filled with so much love…Long before Oregon, Rinker Buck has convinced us that the best way to see America is from the seat of a covered wagon.” —The Wall Street Journal“Amazing…A real nonfiction thriller.” —The New York Review of Books“Absorbing…Winning…The many layers in The Oregon Trail... ... Read more

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