Jonathan Clark

Well-researched and insightful, The Paul Society lays bare the level of government dependence, corporate favoritism, the financial influence of unions, and the true motivations driving the decisions made by politicians of both parties. In this thought-provoking book, Jonathan Clark offers a revelatory look into the state of modern American politics and the way in which the self-interests of politicians and voters have helped to create a $16 trillion national debt. In The Paul Society, Clark delves into the origins of public policies that have helped shape America's welfare state, driven voter incentives, and affected the costs of everything from gasoline to health care. In what may be the most important political book of the year, The Paul Society will force you to leave the blissful ignorance of illusion and embrace the sometimes painful truth of reality.

Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity. Nor has the world stood still: the collapse of communism, the issue of integration into the EU, and the advance of multiculturalism have led more and more people in the English speaking world as a whole to sense that their collective landscape now looks profoundly different from that inhabited by their ancestors even a few decades ago.In A World By Itself, six distinguished historians offer the most definitive and compelling history of the British Isles to date. Tracing the political, religious and material cultures from the Romans to the present day, this is at once an urgent reassessment of our shared past, and an inspirational celebration of British history. It focuses on the major themes and most dramatic moments of the last two millenia: the rise and fall of empires; reformation, revolution and restoration; wars both civil and global; and the enduring question of what it means to be British.

This is the paperbound edition of a 2003 book. Clark (British history, U. of Kansas) offers a critique of modernist materialism and the "ultra-idealism" of the postmodernists while defending the usefulness of the historical method. The text is built around a series of discussions of key issues in early modern history, each of which bears on the und