RECOMMENDED READINGS: BOOKS AND THEIR AUTHORS

25 GREAT PRIMERS FOR YOUR PERSONAL SURVEY

1. H.L. Mencken - "Prejudices"

2. Thomas Sowell - "Preferential Politics"

3. Pat Buchanan - "The Great Betrayal"

4. Robert A. Taft - "The Papers of Robert A. Taft 1889-1939 Vol. 1 & 2; 1939-1953 Vol. 1"

5. Whittaker Chambers - "Witness"

6. Judge Robert Bork - "Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline"

7. Edmund Burke - "Reflections on the Revolution in France"

8. Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu - "The Spirit of the Laws"

9. James J. Kilpatrick - "The Sovereign States"

10. Harry V. Jaffa - "The Crisis of  the House Divided"

11. Alexis de Tocqueville - "Democracy in America"

12. Thomas Paine - "Common Sense, Addressed to the Inhabitants of America"

13. John Locke - "Two Treatises of Government"

14. Jean Jacques Rousseau - "The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right"

15. Ann Coulter - "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"  

16. Pierre Joseph Proudhon - "What is Property? or and Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of  Government"

17. Alfred T. Mahan - "The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1600-1783"

18. Herbert Spenser - "The Man versus the State"

19. Henry David Thoreau - "Resistance to Civil Government"

20. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay - "The Federalist: A Collection of Essays Written in Favor of the New Constitution"

21. William F. Buckley, Jr. - "Up From Liberalism"

22. Aristotle - "Nicomachean Ethics"

23. Russell Kirk - "The Conservative Mind"

24. St. Thomas Aquinas - "Summa Theologica"

25. Jeremy Bentham - "An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation"