AEI senior fellow Ben J. Wattenberg is a Washington icon and iconoclast. From his start as a speechwriter for President Lyndon B. Johnson, Wattenberg has become one of Washington’s preeminent pundits and prognosticators. He has done battle in political and policy circles for nearly forty years. He has been...

Replete with stories never told before, Fighting Words is Wattenberg's firsthand account of the remarkable transformation of American politics over the last four decades.

There is a great deal of confusion aboutneoconservatives.Ben Wattenberg's most recent book explains that theyare not by instinct or temperament skeptical of change.

AEI scholars have produced a plethora of new titles this summer and fall.Here we highlight some of their new books.