Recommended Books and Literature

 

Conservative Thought

·         The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek

·         The Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater

·         Reagan, In His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America, ed. Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson

·         Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Mark R. Levin

·         We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles,Reclaiming Our Future, Matthew Spalding

 

Economics

·         FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression, Jim Powell

·         Ethnic America: A History, Thomas Sowell

·         The Seven Fat Years, And How To Do It Again, Robert Bartley

 

Statesmanship

·         George Washington, The Indispensable Man, James Thomas Flexner

·         Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman, Alonzo L. Hamby

·         Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power, Lou Cannon

·         With Reagan: The Inside Story, Edwin Meese III

·         Churchill: A Life, Martin Gilbert

·         Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution, Lee Edwards

·         American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, William Manchester

 

Religion

·         Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

·         Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther, Roland H. Bainton

·         The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America, Richard J. Neuhaus

 

 

American History

·         The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Edmund S. Morgan

·         Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David H. Fischer

·         Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787, Catherine Drinker Bowen

·         Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James McPherson

·         Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan, Michael Barone

·         America, The Last Best Hope Volume I, From the Age of Discovery to a World at War and America: The Last Best Hope, Volume II: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom, William J. Bennett

·         The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order 1964-1980 and The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, Steven F. Hayward 

 

Totalitarianism

·         Witness, Whittaker Chambers

·         The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer

·         The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Stephanie Courtois

 

World History

·         Europe: A History, Norman Davies

·         Civilization on Trial, Arnold J. Toynbee

·         The Second World War, Volume I: The Gathering Storm, Winston S. Churchill

 

World Politics

·         Dictatorship and Double Standards: Rationalism and Reason in Politics, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

·         Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, Margaret Thatcher

 

Public Policy

·         The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass, Myron Magnet

·         To Empower People: From State to Civil Society, Peter L.Berger and Richard John Neuhaus

·         Mandate for Leadership: Policy Management in a Conservative Administration, Charles Heatherley

·         The Tragedy of American Compassion, Marvin Olasky

 

Political Culture

·         The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom

·         The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, Robert H. Bork

·         Liberal Parents, Radical Children, Midge Decter

 

Unconventional Thought

·         Making It, Norman Podhoretz

·         Radical Son, A Generational Odyssey, David Horowitz

·         Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government, P.J.O'Rourke

 

 

  And don’t forget these other wonderful books…..

 

The 5,000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen

The Real George Washington by Jay A. Parry

The Real Thomas Jefferson by Andrew M. Allison

In Search of Self Governance by Scott Rasmussen

Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabriel

Muslim Mafia by P. David Gaubatz

U.S. Left vs. Right:A Common Sense Update by C.C.Smith,Jr.

Faith and Freedom by Benjamin Hart

Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert H. Bork

  "A Land Called America" by Wayne D. Leeper

 

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