{"title":"Daniel J. Mahoney","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaniel J. Mahoney's works traverse a rich landscape, from charming \u003cem\u003echildren's stories\u003c\/em\u003e to profound reflections on political thought. Readers can explore imaginative tales like \u003cem\u003eMy Cat is a Secret Agent\u003c\/em\u003e alongside incisive studies such as \u003cem\u003eThe Persistence of the Ideological Lie\u003c\/em\u003e, revealing a versatile voice that engages both youthful wonder and serious inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis writing also delves into the lives of influential figures, offering thoughtful \u003cstrong\u003ebiographical\u003c\/strong\u003e insights and stirring examinations of political ideas. Whether you seek playful narratives or contemplative explorations of leadership and ideology, Mahoney's collection invites deeper understanding across genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-statesman-as-thinker-by-daniel-j-mahoney-9781641772419","title":"The Statesman as Thinker","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn his newest book, Daniel J. Mahoney offers refreshing historical antidotes to the displays of despotism in today's political arena.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A brilliantly written and researched tribute to the pantheon of classically trained and thinking men of action.\" - Victor Davis Hanson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Statesman as Thinker\u003c\/em\u003e, Daniel J. Mahoney provides thoughtful and elegant portraits of statesmen who struggled to preserve freedom during times of crisis: Cicero using all the powers of rhetoric to preserve republican liberty in Rome against Caesar's encroaching autocracy; Burke defending ordered liberty against Jacobin tyranny in revolutionary France; Tocqueville defending liberty and human dignity against blind reaction, democratic impatience, and revolutionary fanaticism; Lincoln preserving the American republic and putting an end to chattel slavery; Churchill defending liberty and law and opposing Nazi and Communist despotism; de Gaulle defending the honour of France during World War II; and Havel fighting Communism before 1989 and then leading the Czech Republic with dignity and grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMahoney makes sense of the mixture of magnanimity and moderation that defines the statesman as thinker at his or her best. That admirable mixture of greatness, courage, and moderation owes much to classical and Christian wisdom and to the noble desire to protect the inheritance of civilisation against rapacious and destructive despotic regimes and ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46846664868076,"sku":"9781641772419","price":73.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14714313482772.jpg?v=1758916606"},{"product_id":"my-cat-is-a-secret-agent-by-daniel-j-mahoney-9780374392512","title":"My Cat is a Secret Agent","description":"Samantha knows her cat, Walter, is anything but ordinary-he's a secret agent with the very serious code name Kitty Pants. Unfortunately, no one else appreciates Walter's superspy-ness. Samantha's parents think he's nothing more than your average pet. It's up to Walter to convince them otherwise.\n\nOperation Kitty Pants is a go. But will this undercover feline prove his impressive espionage skills battling foes, including a butt-sniffing pup, a wild-haired kitty, and a band of mischievous mice, or will be find his missions compromised?","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46977927774444,"sku":"9780374392512","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7606533482321.jpg?v=1762894438"},{"product_id":"the-persistence-of-the-ideological-lie-by-daniel-j-mahoney-9781641773737","title":"The Persistence of the Ideological Lie","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness, and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labelled evil, backward, racist, colonialist, sexist, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJacobinism, Marxism-Leninism, National Socialism, Progressive Democracy, the New Left, and now the new woke dispensation have all iterated upon this central conceit. Their adherents were all frenziedly preoccupied with being on \"the right side of history\"—the side of \"progress.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Persistence of the Ideological Lie\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Mahoney chronicles each manifestation of the Ideological Lie, up to and including contemporary wokeism. He explains how each is marked by the same errors: impatience with piecemeal reform, contempt for self-limiting constitutional order, and the belief that people are guilty for their immutable characteristics—belonging to the wrong class or race—rather than for their actions. He shows how the woke, moved by self-loathing and a disdain for our civic inheritance, are transmuting our so-called democracy into a new form of despotism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMahoney ultimately argues that our failure to learn from the totalitarian tragedy of the twentieth century allowed the ideological virus to metastasise in new and alarming ways. 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