What does it mean to be a conservative? What does it mean to accept responsibility for one’s own decisions and take life by the horns and do it your way? Newsmax Rising Bestsellers offers some suggestions. There’s one proposal putting forth the notion that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was martyred for his loyalties to faith and freedom, while another takes responsibility for his hedonistic, mischievous youth while refusing to bow to the gods of political correctness as the “Last Alpha Male.” Still, a third selection describes the awful responsibility of our country’s entry into the atomic age to hasten the end of World War II, and an old Newsmax friend relates how he became the “Liberty-Loving Latino” in the fourth. A fiction offering is the latest roller coaster installment of the “NYPD Red” series.
“For Christ and Country: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk,” by Drew Thomas Allen (Bombardier Books)
Author Drew Thomas Allen argues that Charlie Kirk’s life wasn’t so much snuffed out on a bright September day with a single bullet delivered by lone assassin Tyler Robinson. Rather, he posits he was murdered slowly by the radical left, who repeatedly labeled him a fascist and Nazi, as someone who needed to be eliminated. The years of hatred, slander, and moral corruption directed against Kirk made his assassination inevitable. The author, who worked with Kirk on a number of projects, submits that very same toxic political movement has also infected the Democratic Party. “Author Drew Thomas Allen rips the wheel out of the hands of those steering America into a ditch and forces the nation back on course. That is the gaping void ‘For Christ and Country’ fills. It arrives like a lighthouse in a storm — fierce, unignorable, and anchored in the eternal truths that guided Charlie Kirk,” wrote Bill Martinez in his PJ Media review. “It is, without question, the most important book of this moment.” [Nonfiction]
“The Last Alpha Male: The Amorous Pursuits and High Life of a Poor Little Greek Boy,” by Taki Theodoracopulos (Passage Press)
Author Taki Theodoracopulos, who co-founded The American Conservative in 2002 with Pat Buchanan and penned a long-running weekly column for The Spectator called “The High Life,” is the “Poor Little Greek Boy.” He was educated in the United States and was an accomplished athlete, having competed in the 1961 French Tennis Championship and the Nordic Ski World Championships in 1962, before turning to writing. In this memoir he recounts a life dedicated to beautiful women, adventure, relentless mischief, and bucking the petty, self-emasculating demands of political correctness. “Taki is indeed, the ‘Poor Little Greek Boy’ with a father who was a Greek shipping (billionaire) magnate,” wrote Philip Mielke for Amazon. “Lived a primarily profligate life, but, boy, did he live! Good writer, knowledgeable historian and endowed with a great sense of humor.” [Nonfiction]
“The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age,” by Alex Wellerstein (Harper)
“The Buck Stops Here” was the motto prominently displayed on President Harry S. Truman’s desk, and legend had it that he alone called for the use of an atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the better option to invading Japan, which would have resulted in the loss of millions of U.S. and Japanese lives. But fact and legend are somewhat at odds, according to the author. He argues that Truman was anti-nuke and fervently hoped that its deployment in Japan would be the last time that nuclear devices would be used by anyone. "Mr. (Alex) Wellerstein presents his story in clear, direct prose, incorporating the words of Truman, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Manhattan Project commander Gen. Leslie Groves and others,” wrote The Wall Street Journal. “He carefully dissects what they said and what they likely meant. His interpretive approach, refined over years of studying the nuclear threat, credibly sifts the historical record without slowing the book’s tempo. ‘The Most Awful Responsibility’ is a well-written opus unpacking Truman’s — and America’s — complicated relationship with nuclear weapons." [Nonfiction]
“The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino: A New American Revolution,” by Chris Salcedo (Post Hill Press)
Leftists and Democrats have long considered all minorities, including Latinos, to be in their hip pocket. All they had to do was “buy” their vote with the promise of federal aid programs. But it didn’t quite work out that way — most notably with Chris Salcedo. There was one thing more important to him — liberty. The liberty to cut his own swath in the world, to do it his way without the things that rob a person of his pride and dignity like “free” housing and “free” food. But he’s not the only similarly minded Latino. Just ask any Cuban refugee living in Miami’s Little Havana what he thinks of Democrat-promoted welfare programs. They’ve seen it all before, and it always ends in misery. “Chris Salcedo has earned the trust of millions with his honest, transparent and loyalty to the conservative voice. ‘The Rise of the Liberty-Loving Latino’ is not only a must-read book, it’s the embodiment of the movement sweeping the globe, and there is no better torchbearer than Salcedo lighting the path to common sense conservative values,” wrote commentator Eric Bolling. [Nonfiction]
“NYPD Red 8: The 11:59 Bomber,” by Marshall Karp (Blackstone Publishing, Inc.)
In this eighth installment of the popular “NYPD Red” series, a bomb is detonated in a busy subway station at precisely 11:59 a.m., and exactly 24 hours later another one goes off in a crowded department store. And suddenly the city that never sleeps is afraid to get out of bed as one crazed man vows "to destroy New York City the way it destroyed my family." “Marshall Karp has taken the reins of the ‘NYPD: Red’ series and delivers a suspenseful story that keeps you captivated and up late every night,” wrote Lee A. Edwards in his Amazon review. [Fiction]
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