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Edwin Hagenstein

Author, Editor, and Historical Scholar

www.edhagenstein.com/

Edwin C. Hagenstein is a writer and editor with long experience in publishing. He was the lead editor of American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land (Yale University Press, 2011), and author of The Language of Liberty: A Citizen’s Vocabulary (Rootstock Publishing, 2020), winner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (gold medal). He has also published essays, generally on government, in online publications such as RealClear Public Affairs, The Front Porch Republic, and Minding the Campus. With an interest in woodworking, Hagenstein also wrote Craft in Common: 30 Years at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship (Crow Hill Press, 2023). He lives in northern New Mexico with the artist Helen Byers.

Lanny Davis

Lawyer and political consultant

Daniel Yager

Political novelist and former D.C. lawyer

John Ullyot

Former National Security Council Spokesman, U.S. Marine Corps Veteran

John Ullyot is a US Marine Corps veteran who served as chief spokesman for the National Security Council, and as a Deputy Assistant to President Trump at the White House. He was also a senior advisor on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.

A former Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs, he served for seven years as a senior staff member in the US Senate as Communications Director and spokesman for the Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committees. As a Marine intelligence officer and scout-sniper platoon commander, he served on the US-Mexico border, supporting the US Border Patrol with Joint Task Force-6, and in jungle warfare training with the French Foreign Legion in South America.

He is a regular commentator on political and national security issues with national media outlets, including Fox News, Newsmax, and NewsNation. Additionally, he is a columnist at Townhall and has published opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, National Review, and Federalist, among others.

ISBN:979-8-89138-387-6
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Publication Date:August 20, 2024

The Biden-Harris Betrayal

Weak and Woke on the World Stage

When Democrat party grandees committed clear election interference in June 2024 by pushing Joe Biden out against his will as their chosen standard-bearer for the fall election, ignoring the fourteen million voters who chose him for that role through the democratic process, they predictably anointed his number-two, Kamala Harris, as their new vessel.

This only confirmed Kamala’s central role as co-pilot for their failed policies that gave us record-high inflation, skyrocketing crime, an open border, two major wars overseas, and a humiliating pullout in Afghanistan that killed thirteen of our finest men and women in uniform.

In picking Kamala, these shadow party leaders signaled a continuation of the same incompetent and divisive Biden-Harris policy priorities, this time from a stand-in candidate carrying a truckload of extra political baggage.

For anyone looking to understand the full Biden-Harris record in advance of this fall’s election, this book is a collection of fifty essays that represent a play-by-play chronicle of their co-presidency, recounting in detail the foreign and domestic policy failures that have brought them both to the lowest approval ratings in history and demonstrating why Kamala is plainly not fit to keep her hand on the tiller for another four years.

Gerrick D. Wilkins

Candidate for U.S. Congress

Gerrick Wilkins chose to run for the U.S. Congress in direct opposition to the all-too-common malady of career politicians. After witnessing the pitfalls of prolonged political tenures and government intrusion, Wilkins is committed to a three-term limit and is on a mission to rekindle the founders’ vision of citizen legislators.

Driven by President Reagan’s ethos of “everyone can help someone,” Wilkins is a stalwart advocate for America and actively involved in mission work, both locally and globally. His unwavering Christian faith, combined with the support of his family, has been his bedrock in the service of others, and a congressional run is an extension of that clarity of purpose.

An accomplished entrepreneur with over two decades in the automotive industry, Wilkins’ leadership has afforded him keen insights into the challenges and rewards of achieving the American dream. His extensive business acumen, coupled with a deep-seated belief in limited government, puts him squarely in position to articulate the urgency of moving away from career politicians.

Wilkins graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Liberty University and an MBA from Samford University, including concentrations in entrepreneurship and innovation. The Wilkins family, which includes Carol, Gerrick’s wife of twenty-four years, and their daughter, Hanna, has made Alabama their home since 2006.

X (Twitter): @GDWILKINS

ISBN:979-8-89138-087-5
Price:$28.95

Unshackling Democracy

Embracing Term Limits, Empowering Citizens

It is time to cease business as usual in Washington, and Gerrick Wilkins sees the solution right in front of us. 

Wilkins asserts the time is now to limit how long members of the U.S. Congress can serve—to counter the corrupting culture of political careerism with fresh ideas and innovation and to encourage the kind of “citizen legislature” the founders of our republic dreamed of.

Unshackling Democracy highlights this conviction and brings new light on an issue that has been debated and deferred much too long. With engaging storytelling and well-researched history, Wilkins provides a fresh look at term limits. A highly successful dealer and consultant in the automobile industry, Wilkins sees professional politicians and elite policymakers who ignore or misunderstand the perspectives of ordinary Americans—those who create businesses and make up the workforce, struggle to make paychecks stretch farther, and are committed to better lives for their children.

Wilkins chose to make a congressional run when the elected official in his district reneged on his commitment not to seek re-election after five terms. Wilkins believes that term limits would encourage stronger involvement in the political process. He believes this book will motivate citizens to take back the reins of power from the hands of career politicians and restore it to the American people—where it was always meant to be.

J.T. Young

Former Congressional Political Analyst and Policy Advisor

J.T. Young has worked for over three decades in and around DC politics, immersed in economic advising and policy legislation from Capitol Hill. Alongside degrees from the University of Chicago (B.A.) and Cornell University (M.A., Ph.D.), Young’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal,

Washington Times, Washington Examiner, The Hill, American Spectator, The Federalist, Washington Post, New York Post, Barron’s, Forbes, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and elsewhere. 

With a fondness for motorcycles and scuba diving in his youth, he now considers himself a responsible adult with a wife and family. His adventures today consist of attending baseball games, visiting national parks, and photography.

ISBN:979-8-89138-129-2
Price:$32.00
Publication Date:October 29, 2024

Unprecedented Assault

How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left

For the very first time in the history of the United States, wide-ranging and substantive resources and tools are allowing the socialist Left to become a considerable and formidable threat. Not merely recapping examples, Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left is the first all-encompassing, historical exploration of the ways in which the socialist Left has transformed American society and politics—and how to correct the path down which the country is headed.

Incurring the consequences produced by decades of misguided federal government spending and policy, America’s very foundation is now being opposed by a rapidly ascending socialist Left. With academic expertise honed by decades of political, policy, and journalistic experience in Washington, J.T. Young’s distinctive point of view results in an approachable, thorough look backward and forward in time, investigating and explaining the rise of the greatest leftist uprising in the United States’s complex story.

C. Owen Paepke

Political Commentator

PurplePresidency.org

C. Owen Paepke is the author of The Evolution of Progress (named best nonfiction book of 1993 by NPR’s Talk of the Nation) and the three-volume series The Seinfeld Election, which was praised by reviewers as “a provocative investigation into the American political divide.”

He has written and spoken widely on technology and science policy, including a keynote address on the future of science to the fiftieth-anniversary meeting of the Federation of American Scientists and a speech on the prospects for technological and economic progress at the Smithsonian Institution.

He lives in Arizona, where he practiced for many years as an attorney specializing in antitrust and intellectual property, and is a graduate of Stanford and the University of Chicago.

ISBN:978-1-63755-741-9
Price:$24.95

The Purple Presidency 2024

How Voters Can Reclaim the White House for Bipartisan Governance

For decades, partisan gridlock and a drift toward the extremes in Washington have left Americans with only two choices—red or blue, neither reflecting most Americans’ views.

Voters feel helpless and often end up voting against the greater of two evils, casting protest votes, or not voting at all. This crisis peaked with the elections of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the least popular presidents since polling began. The 2022 midterms only confirmed voters’ dissatisfaction with both extremes.

In 2024, with independent voters outnumbering either party, we have reached a tipping point—it’s time for a purple wave to elect a pragmatic president who will reject polarization and represent mainstream America.

In The Purple Presidency 2024, C. Owen Paepke reveals how we came to this desperate point in history, the perils of remaining on this path, and how a nonpartisan voters’ movement can take back Washington.

Brian Kolender MD 

Preventive Medicine Expert

Stephen B. Young

Historian

kissingersbetrayal.com

Stephen B. Young is the global executive director of the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism and the author of Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good, The Tradition of Human Rights in China and Vietnam, and The Theory and Practice of Associative Power: CORDS in the Villages of Vietnam 1967–1972.

He and his wife, Pham Thi Hoa, translated from Vietnamese the novel about Ho Chi Minh published as The Zenith. His 1968–1971 service in Vietnam for the US Agency for International Development in village development and counterinsurgency was highly praised by President Richard Nixon, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Colby, and ambassador to Saigon Ellsworth Bunker.

In 1975 and again in 1978, Young took a lead in successful efforts to resettle refugees from South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in the United States. For many years Young was a confidant of Nguyen Ngoc Huy, the founder of the Tan Dai Viet Nationalist political party in South Vietnam.

Young also served as an assistant dean at the Harvard Law School and dean and professor of law at the Hamline University School of Law. He graduated from the International School in Bangkok, Harvard College, and Harvard Law School.

In 1966, Young discovered the Bronze Age culture of the village of Ban Chiang in Northeast Thailand, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. In 1989, he proposed the formation of a United Nations interim administration for Cambodia to finally put an end to the Killing Fields in that country.

ISBN:978-1-63755-359-6
Price:$32.95
Publication Date:May 23, 2023

Kissinger’s Betrayal

How America Lost the Vietnam War

What really happened in Vietnam?

For five decades, conventional wisdom about the Vietnam War has been that it was lost because it never could have been won. South Vietnam was doomed to defeat. The American effort was a foreign intrusion forever incapable of winning the “hearts and minds” of the South Vietnamese people.

But what if South Vietnam was defeated not because of its own shortcomings but because it was betrayed by a secret deal made behind its back? 

Deeply researched and compellingly argued, Kissinger’s Betrayal uses once-secret files of the American ambassador to South Vietnam and long-overlooked documents from official government archives—including the foreign ministry of the Soviet Union—to reveal for the first time how Henry Kissinger personally and secretly schemed to irrevocably compromise South Vietnam’s chances for survival.

Without informing his president, other American leaders, or US allies in South Vietnam, Kissinger unilaterally made a horrendous—and ultimately completely unnecessary—diplomatic concession that allowed Communist North Vietnam to leave its army inside South Vietnam and then freely resume its war of invasion and conquest at a time of its own choosing.

In an unprecedented account, historian and global executive director of the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism Stephen B. Young provides new insight into both genuine Vietnamese Nationalism and the French colonialism that marginalized and decentered the right of the Vietnamese people to live freely in an independent country of their own choosing.

Kissinger’s Betrayal reveals a fresh and more truthful history of the Vietnam War that restores dignity to America as well as the people of Vietnam.

Daryl Weber

Brand Consultant, Speaker, and Entrepreneur

brandingdemocrats.com

Daryl Weber, Ken’s son, is a brand strategist who has worked for some of the biggest brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Nike, Johnnie Walker, Google, and many others. He was previously global director of creative strategy at The Coca-Cola Company and a strategy director at the brand consultancy Redscout. Daryl’s book, Brand Seduction: How Neuroscience Can Help Marketers Build Memorable Brands, has been translated into several languages and has received rave industry reviews.

ISBN:978-1-63755-471-5
Price:$24.95

Branding Democrats

A Top-to-Bottom Reimagining of Campaign Strategies

Democrats, stop whining and start winning! 

Democrats are terrible at branding. 

Political branding isn’t about logos, slogans, or messages. It’s also not about individual candidates and campaigns. 

It’s about what Democrats stand for and are known for in the minds of voters. It’s how voters feel about the party over years, or even decades. 

Today the Democrats’ brand is in shambles. And that is costing us elections. 

This practical, easy-to-read guide outlines the branding blunders Democrats continually make and delivers specific steps the party can take to turn things around. 

The need could not be more urgent. Our democracy is at stake. Let’s build the new Democratic brand, together.

Ken Weber

Founder, President, and Investment Advisor

brandingdemocrats.com

Ken Weber is president of Weber Asset Management, a registered investment advisor firm based in New York. He started the business with no formal training in the financial industry’s sales techniques, but within a few years it grew—thanks to branding and marketing—to be among the top ten percent of the industry, based on assets under management. For ten years, Ken Weber wrote a political blog, Sanity-First.com, and he is the author of the book Dear Investor, What the HELL are You Doing?.

ISBN:978-1-63755-471-5
Price:$24.95

Branding Democrats

A Top-to-Bottom Reimagining of Campaign Strategies

Democrats, stop whining and start winning! 

Democrats are terrible at branding. 

Political branding isn’t about logos, slogans, or messages. It’s also not about individual candidates and campaigns. 

It’s about what Democrats stand for and are known for in the minds of voters. It’s how voters feel about the party over years, or even decades. 

Today the Democrats’ brand is in shambles. And that is costing us elections. 

This practical, easy-to-read guide outlines the branding blunders Democrats continually make and delivers specific steps the party can take to turn things around. 

The need could not be more urgent. Our democracy is at stake. Let’s build the new Democratic brand, together.

Diane Hessan

Entrepreneur and Political Researcher

OurCommonGroundBook.com

Diane Hessan is an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator in the market research field, and a nationally recognized expert on the American voter. Since 2016, she has been engaged in an in-depth, longitudinal study of the electorate, looking for trends, shifts, and common ground. She has written more than 50 columns about her findings for the Boston Globe, and her work has also been featured on CNN and NPR and in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, and many other outlets.

She is the founder and Chairman of C Space, formerly called Communispace, which was the first company to leverage social media to help companies get insight and inspiration from their consumers. Diane was CEO of the company during 14 years of exponential growth, as C Space worked with hundreds of global brands across twelve countries. She has been honored as a disruptor in the market research industry because of her work in conducting breakthrough research via the internet. Diane recently consolidated all of her investment and advisory work into a new company called Salient Ventures, which helps accelerate the next generation of startup companies in tech. She serves on the boards of Panera, Eastern Bank, Brightcove, Schlesinger Group, Mass Challenge, Tufts University, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 2017, the Boston Globe appointed her to its editorial board. Diane has received many honors, including the Pinnacle Award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Most Admired CEO award and Boston Power 50 awards from the Boston Business Journal, Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, the Northstar Award from Springboard, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year. She has been inducted into the Babson College Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs, and she received the Asper Award for Global Entrepreneurship from Brandeis University. Diane previously co-authored the book Customer-Centered Growth: Five Strategies for Building Competitive Advantage, a Business Week best seller that was published in eleven languages. She received a BA in economics and English from Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
ISBN:978-1-63755-028-1
Price:$28

Our Common Ground

Insights from Four Years of Listening to American Voters

For four years, Diane Hessan has been in weekly conversation with voters across the United States. What she has learned will surprise you, enlighten you, give you hope, and change the way you think about your fellow Americans.

Our inability to hear each other, our suspicion, and our impatience is stressing us out and tearing us apart. It’s a sickness that permeates the American culture, erodes our collective mental health, and makes us hate each other.

To gain insight into how we can move forward, Hessan undertook a massive listening project, conducting an ongoing series of weekly interviews with 500 voters from every state, of every age and ethnicity, and along different points of the political spectrum. The topics ranged from race to guns, from character to party politics, from masks to rallies, from the Supreme Court to the pandemic to immigration and climate change. After more than a million individual communications, two things became clear:

We have more common ground than we realize.

And we are, sadly, failing at understanding each other.

On issue after issue, our “divided” nation isn’t nearly as polarized as we imagine. An overwhelming majority of voters believe in commonsense gun licensing and regulation. They are pro-immigration. They believe climate change is real and the coronavirus is deadly. They care deeply about their families and are willing to work hard to make ends meet. And, they believe that Washington is slow, bureaucratic, and not working in their best interests.

In dozens of columns on these topics published in the Boston Globe, Hessan has upended common political wisdom. Presented together for the first time as part of this book, they reveal a unique perspective on how Americans actually think, what they value, and how we can move forward.

The path to healing our divided nation is both simple and profound. We must turn down the heat. We must begin to listen, to stop presuming, to try to understand, to treat each other with dignity, and to know that most Americans are not crazy radicals. We truly share common ground. If we can pull together, we can have a much better America.

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