Encounter Broadsides
In October 2009, Encounter launched a series of short polemical booklets in the spirit of the Federalist Papers and Thomas Paine's Common Sense, called Encounter Broadsides. The series publishes well-known commentators on topical political issues from health care and immigration to Guantanamo Bay. Published Broadside authors include John R. Bolton, Victor Davis Hanson, John Fund, Michael Ledeen, Andrew C. McCarthy, Betsey McCaughey, Stephen Moore, and Michael B. Mukasey.
Publishers Weekly reported that the series would be entirely "crashed", or produced and marketed on an aggressive turnaround schedule. Publisher Roger Kimball said of the series:
"he imprint will serve as “a new--or rather, a revival of an old--genre that is supple enough to respond quickly to unfolding events and yet authoritative enough to have an important effect on the debate over policy.”
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