Product Description: From the 1830s to the 1870s, Madame Restell handles problem pregnancies among the wealthy and the well-known in New York City. An intrepid reporter from the New York Times smells something nefarious and pursues her, to no avail. When the dead body of a beautiful woman is found in a trunk abandoned in Grand Central Station, the highly publicized Trunk Murder breaks open the case against Restell and her murderous network...read more

Product Description: [Audio CD Library Edition in vinyl case][Read by Jeff Riggenbach] Compassionate conservatism is a new political force in the land, sweeping the grassroots of people of all faiths, races, and ethnicities. In its parts it offers solutions to many of our most intractable problems; in its whole it is nothing less than an innovative philosophy of government...read more

Product Description: Think of what revitalizing journalism would do for the cause of Christ in America! It is the most needed sort of pre-evangelism; it is training in Christian worldview; it is an aid to sanctification, and you need to teach people how to do it -J...read more

Can a man be content with a piece of bread and some change tossed his way from a passerby? Today's modern welfare state expects he can. Those who control the money in our society think that giving a dollar at the train station and then appropriating a billion dollars for federal housing can cure the ails of the homeless and the poor. But the crisis of the modern welfare state is more than a crisis of government. Private charities that dispense aid indiscriminately while ignoring the moral and spiritual needs of the poor are also to blame. Like animals in the zoo at feeding time, the needy are given a plate of food but rarely receive the love and time that only a person can give. Poverty fighters 100 years ago were more compassionate--in the literal meaning of "suffering with"--than many of us are now. They opened their own homes to deserted women and children. They offered employment to nomadic men who had abandoned hope and human contact. Most significantly, they made moral demands on recipients of aid. They saw family, work, freedom, and faith as central to our being, not as life-style options. No one was allowed to eat and run. Some kind of honest labor was required of those who needed food or a place to sleep in return. Woodyards next to homeless shelters were as common in the 1890s as liquor stores are in the 1990s. When an able bodied woman sought relief, she was given a seat in the "sewing room" and asked to work on garments given to the helpless poor. To begin where poverty fighters a century ago began, Marvin Olasky emphasizes seven ideas that recent welfare practice has put aside: affiliation, bonding, categorization, discernment, employment, freedom, and most importantly, belief in God. In the end, not much will be accomplished without a spiritual revival that transforms the everyday advice we give and receive, and the way we lead our lives. It's time we realized that there is only so much that public policy can do. That only a richness of spirit can battle a poverty of soul. The century-old question--does any given scheme of help... make great demands on men to give themselves to their brethren?--is still the right one to ask. Most of our 20th-century schemes have failed. It's time to learn from the warm hearts and hard heads of the 19th-century. "We are indebted to Olasky for bringing past lessons of history to bear on a present cultural crisis. Another great work by one of today's foremost thinkers." --Charles W. Colson, Chairman, Prison Fellowship "A comprehensive, well documented, and much needed study of the decline of true compassion that provides fresh analysis and provocative insight into the causes and cures of this American tragedy. Must reading for people who want to understand and help correct the plight of hurting people." --Dr. Anthony T. Evans, President, The Urban Alternative "Those who read and understand Olasky's work will be better prepared to move creatively in affirming the dignity of the poor, and in affirming work as a virtue." --John Perkins, Publisher, Urban Family magazine "Marvin Olasky's perceptive book shows how we, as individuals and in community with one another, can best demonstrate the genuine compassion that the poor need most of all." --Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute "Finally someone has put the horse and the cart in the right order. Marvin Olasky neither shuns compassion nor assistance for the poor, but rather gives the historical definition of each and assigns them their proper priority. Not only can this book benefit the truly needy, it can benefit the country. Not a bad accomplishment for one book." --Cal Thomas, Los Angeles Times Syndicate

Product Description: How did George W. Bush change from being a 'regular person' in front of reporters to a master of information control? Or was there a change after all? Towel Snapping the Press follows Bush's lifelong association with the press, showing how he has developed and modified his tactics_from his days as part owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team to the present, with a look back at young George during his grandfather's 1950 Senate campaign...read more

Describes the famous 1925 courtroom showdown of William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow over the teaching of evolution in public schools, and points out details and discrepancies that have not come to light until recently.

Product Description: God calls Christian parents to raise their kids for Him, loving Him with all their heart, soul, strength, and mind. But does this divine calling require a distinctively Christian education? Should Christian parents send their kids to public schools as "salt" and "light" or should they take their kids out of public schools to form distinctively Christian schools and home schools dedicated to holding forth Christ as Lord of all? Because our kids belong to God, are we called to surround them with a biblical worldview from the time they get up to the time they go down, including the hours from 8:30 a...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Outlines a philosophy of government in which the state provides aid, inspiration, and direction to faith-based charities in their efforts to assist the poor and distressed, allowing them to offer effective social programs in their communities.

Product Description: "Influenced by his deep faith, Olasky's writings show that values and moral convictions are critical to the strength of a free society and a free people." -George W. Bush "Olasky establishes the urgent need for role models who stand for the virtues that we want to pass on to our children, including honesty, responsibility, and accountability...read more

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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. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Marvin Olasky and Joel Belz help you define the issues that are shaping America's heart and mind by offering reasonable, biblical analysis of crucial issues in the so-called "culture wars". The articles are from the editorial pages of World magazine. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Offers dozens of success stories, and a summary of history's lessons, to show concrete ways for each of us to help our neighbors.

New insights into the interplay of American politics, religion, sex, and revolution in the 18th century.

Describes the three main groups of women who had abortions through the mid-nineteenth century, and assesses the impact of early anti-abortion laws

Product Description: The thesis of this volume is that a broad look at the whole philosophical pattern of journalism will show three central ideas achieving dominance sequentially. The first of these central ideas -- which Olasky terms "macro-stories" -- was called the "official story" since it overarchs the daily bits and pieces of journalistic coverage...read more

Product Description: Freedom, Justice, and Hope: Toward a Strategy for the Poor and the Oppressed (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series)

Product Description: 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?