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</div><div>by Gary J. Byrne</div><div>
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</div><div>2 </div><div>Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Patriots</div><div>
</div><div>by Bill O'Reilly and David Fisher</div><div>
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</div><div>3 </div><div>Wake Up America: The Nine Virtues That Made Our Nation Great--and Why We Need Them More Than Ever</div><div>
</div><div>by Eric Bolling</div><div>
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</div><div>4 </div><div>Foreign Agent: A Thriller</div><div>
</div><div>by Brad Thor</div><div>
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</div><div>5 </div><div>If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty</div><div>
</div><div>by Eric Metaxas</div><div>
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</div><div>6 </div><div>Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot</div><div>
</div><div>by Bill O'Reilly</div><div>
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</div><div>7 </div><div>Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary</div><div>
</div><div>by Dick Morris</div><div>
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</div><div>8 </div><div>Ghosts of War (A Pike Logan Thriller)</div><div>
</div><div>by Brad Taylor</div><div>
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</div><div>9 </div><div>Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win</div><div>
</div><div>by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin</div><div>
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</div><div>10 </div><div>The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech</div><div>
</div><div>by Kimberley Strassel</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.conservativebookclub.com/editors-bio">http://www.conservativebookclub.com/editors-bio</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Christopher N. Malagisi, Editor in Chief</font></font></font></font></div><div>
</div><div>Christopher N. Malagisi is Editor in Chief of the Conservative Book Club (CBC) – a division of Salem Media Group, with over 625K members nationwide. Malagisi is responsible for writing and managing editorial content for CBC’s website, daily e-newsletter, social media platforms (over 375K followers), serves as the Club’s public spokesman, and has personally conducted over 100 interviews with presidential candidates, high-profile authors, and conservative thought-leaders.</div><div>
</div><div>He is also a featured Author/Contributor at <b>Townhall.com</b> and has a weekly recurring segment on The Mike Gallagher Radio Show discussing political and cultural news, while announcing the weekly Conservative Book Bestseller List. He’s been published in over a dozen leading publications, has been a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> guest political analyst on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, OANN, and CSPAN, and has been a guest contributor on numerous national radio shows, including The Hugh Hewitt Show, The Dennis Prager Show, Bill Bennett’s Morning in America, Brian Kilmeade & Friends, and DC’s WMAL Mornings on the Mall.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Previously, he was the CPAC Director & Director of External Relations at the <b>American Conservative Union</b>, the Director of Political & New Media Training at The <b>Leadership Institute,</b> Education Director of Conservatism 101, worked at the International Republican Institute, and has served in coalition leadership positions on five U.S. presidential campaigns. For seven years, he was an Adjunct Professor at <b>American University teaching History of the Conservative Movement.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Malagisi also serves as President of the Young Conservatives Coalition (YCC), which hosts the annual “Buckley Awards” and Reaganpalooza confab. Campaigns & Elections magazine has recognized Malagisi as a “DC Mover & Shaker” and received their “Rising Star Award,” and was awarded the “Conservative Leader Award” from The Leadership Institute.</div><div>
</div><div>He received his M.P.A. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a dual B.A. from American University. He’s also <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">completed <b>fellowships</b> with National Review, The Claremont Institute (Lincoln), Montpelier Foundation (Madison), Foreign Policy Initiative, Hertog Foundation, and Liberty Fund.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Fun Facts: Malagisi has sailed around the world and visited 40 countries, is a movie aficionado, is originally from Buffalo, NY, serves on the board of his church’s young professionals group, and has recorded two original piano albums. His favorite conservative classic is Dr. George H. Nash’s The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945.</div><div>
</div><div>Follow him at @chrismalagisi.</div><div>
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</div><div>Bradley Matthews, Assistant Editor</div><div>
</div><div>Brad Matthews is the Assistant Editor for the Conservative Book Club. After having<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> interned for the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity</span>, Brad joined the site in June 2015. He graduated from The <b>American University</b> in 2014 after only three years, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science.</div><div>
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</div><div>Katelyn Brantley, Marketing Coordinator</div><div>
</div><div>Katelyn BrantleyKatelyn Brantley is the Marketing Coordinator for the Conservative Book Club and Regnery Publishing. Previously, she worked at the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Enterprise Institute, a nonpartisan public policy research institute in Washington, DC, and Summit Ministries, a non-profit organization in Colorado Springs, CO that trains Christians in apologetics, worldview analysis, and social engagement.</span></div><div>
</div><div>She has been a contributing writer for the <b>Intercollegiate Studies Institute</b> and the NVC Review in addition to her active participation in <b>Liberty Fund and Acton Institute programs.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Katelyn graduated from the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> University of Florida with a degree in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience and studied Political Theory and Psychology at Oxford University.</span></div><div>
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</div><div>Todd Miller, Advertising Director</div><div>
</div><div>Todd MillerTodd Miller has transitioned to full-time employment with <b>Salem Eagle</b> as the Advertising Director for the Conservative Book Club after functioning in this capacity since January 2015 as an independent contractor.</div><div>
</div><div>Over the course of his thirty-five year career in advertising sales, Todd has served in executive and leadership positions with media companies in New York, NY and Washington, DC.</div><div>
</div><div>He has earned distinctions for sales achievement with multiple organizations, including Eagle Publishing’s Annual Award of Excellence (2008). At Eagle Todd was responsible for delivering over $10 million in advertising sales during his five-year tenure with the company (2006-2011), and was Eagle‘s sales leader in each of those years.</div><div>
</div><div>Todd enjoys playing the piano, reading, writing, running, tennis and swimming. He currently resides in Northwest Washington, DC with his wife, Margot, and daughter, Madeleine.</div><div>
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hese days The New York Times best-seller list is filled with conservative books by authors such as Bill O’Reilly, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Nearly every mainstream publisher (Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette) has its own conservative imprint. In the last decade, Regnery Publishing, the venerable conservative publisher, has seen 30 of its titles become best-sellers. In short, conservative books sell quite well.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But 50 years ago, mainstream publishers were convinced conservative books were the literary equivalent of the third rail. They accepted the stereotypical image of conservatives as beer-guzzling troglodytes who expressed themselves only in “irritable mental gestures,” as Lionel Trilling once said. Publishers joked that with their limited mental capacity, conservatives rarely bought anything more challenging than a comic book—except perhaps the Bible. It was agreed that any publisher who took a chance on a conservative or anti-communist title was bound to lose money—and lots of it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In such an intellectually hostile environment, most conservative writers depended upon Regnery, Devin-Adair, the Bookmailer and a few small publishing houses to showcase their work.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A few entrepreneurial authors fought against the liberal publishing cartel by publishing their own work. We have the amazing examples, in the early ‘60s, of Barry Goldwater’s “The Conscience of a Conservative” and Phyllis Schlafly’s “A Choice Not an Echo,” each of which sold more than 3 million copies. Neither book ever made The New York Times best-sellers list because they were self-published and therefore did not count in the eyes of mainstream publishers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Daily Signal is the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation.  We’ll respect your inbox and keep you informed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Your email address.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sign Up</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But an alternative was on its way. Neil McCaffrey, a creative publishing executive and steadfast conservative, believed you could break through the publishing wall that excluded conservative authors and ideas by starting a Conservative Book Club that would generate sales through the mail just as the Book of the Month Club did.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">50 years ago, it was agreed that any publisher who took a chance on a conservative or anti-communist title was bound to lose money—and lots of it.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Each month, Conservative Book Club would automatically mail a selection to its members unless they declined the book or selected another title from the newsletter. Neil was sure there was a sizeable market for good books on the right. He was proven correct when, in the first 18 months after the<b> Conservative Book Club started in April 1964, the club’s membership topped 30,000. After three years, the Club could point to sales of 15,000-20,000 conservative books a month.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thus, after the Conservative Book Club’s emergence and, increasingly during the Reagan years, authors on the right were welcomed by mainstream publishers when they proposed a book idea or submitted a manuscript.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today, the conservative movement is many times larger than it was in 1964, and the appetite for conservative books—and not only on the right—is far greater. Some days there seem to be almost too many new conservative books. How can you keep up with the unceasing wave of new titles and decide which is the book you must have?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The answer  is a reincarnated and digitized Conservative Book Club, whose chief editor is Chris Malagisi, a rising young star of the conservative movement.</b> The new Conservative Book Club  is part club, part book store, part newsletter, part website and all conservative. (And membership is free.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative Book Club offers interviews with authors such as Allan Ryskind, author of “Hollywood Traitors,” excerpts from conservative works such as M. Stanton Evans’ magisterial “The Theme Is Freedom,” and a conservative best-sellers list.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the top of the current list are “American Sniper” by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice; “Killing Patton,” by Bill O’Reilly; “Killing Jesus,” also by O’Reilly; and “God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy” by Mike Huckabee. <b>Unlike The New York Times, the Conservative Book Club bestsellers list is based on actual sales-driven data</b>. What strikes us about these books is they represent different strains of the conservative movement, all of which are needed for a governing conservative majority.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The things I want to know are in books,” Abraham Lincoln wrote, and so he read all his life. We’re confident he would have been a grateful member of the Conservative Book Club.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/28/conservative-book-club-site-steers-its-readers-rig/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ennifer Harper - The Washington Times - Saturday, February 28, 2015</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ANALYSIS/OPINION:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those weary of politically correct book lists and elitist commentary have a new destination. The Conservative Book Club - founded 51 years ago - has a spiffy new online presence devoted to book reviews, news, and previews about hundreds of conservative-themed books and authors. Yes, there’s a Top-10 list - the top three this week are “Killing Patton: The Strange Death of WWII’s Most Audacious General” by Bill O’Reilly; “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy” by Mike Huckabee; and Rush Revere and the American Revolution by Rush Limbaugh.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Videos include Mr. O’Reilly’s interview with “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle, broadcast on Fox News two years ago. The site also offers 23 categories of books - including those centered on media, national security and military, kid’s books and memoirs. Readers are welcome to rate books, build a custom bookshelf and just engage, says editor Christopher Malagisi.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservatives have long rued the unfair treatment of books by the New York Times and other liberal publications, he says. For all its consumer might, even Amazon.com doesn’t have a “conservative” category, though conservative-themed books sell by the millions. The new site is meant to be a trusted resource, and an alternative to persistent liberal high jinks in the reading realm.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It is an oasis for free market-thinking, freedom-loving book enthusiasts looking for an alternative to the biased mainstream media,” advises Newt Gingrich, an author himself, along with his wife Callista.</font></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></b></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The site is managed by Salem Communications, the nimble media group that has become the nation’s leading provider of conservative, Christian and values based content.</b> Find it all here: Conservativebookclub.com</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div></div>