Ultimate List of Conservative Must Read Books
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The following list came from a discussion we had on great conservative books to read. Special thanks to @AmishSteve for starting the conversation. If you are a conservative who loves to read, bookmark this list and come back when you need some new reading material. I am going through the list myself, and I will add reviews to each as I go. Full disclosure - these links go to Amazon where you can buy these great books. If you purchase something, I get to buy a half a cup of coffee with the earnings.
List of Conservative Books
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
by Mark Steyn
The Revolution: A Manifesto
by Ron Paul - Review
The Conservative’s Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z
by Phil Valentine - Review
The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation
by Michael Medved
Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies
by Gregg Jackson
Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity
by David Limbaugh
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems
by Glenn Beck and Kevin Balfe
Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism
by Arthur C. Brooks
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein
World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism (Vintage)
by Norman Podhoretz
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
by Jonah Goldberg
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by Amity Shlaes
The Politics of Jesus
by John Howard Yoder
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
John Adams
by David McCullough
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
by Shelby Steele
Tyranny of the Status Quo
by Milton Friedman
Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations
by John Bolton
The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
by Edwin Meese
Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong
by Jim DeMint
Of Plymouth Plantation (Dover Value Editions)
by William Bradford
Time For Truth
by William Simon
The Leaders We Deserved (and a Few We Didn’t): Rethinking the Presidential Rating Game
by Alvin S. Felzenberg
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity
by Bill O’Reilly
Extreme Measures: A Thriller
by Vince Flynn
The Reagan I Knew
by William F. Buckley Jr.
Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement
by Nicole Hoplin and Ron Robinson
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
The American Patriot’s Almanac: Daily Readings on America
by William J. Bennett and John Cribb
When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan
by Peggy Noonan
A History of the American People
by Paul Johnson
The Road to Serfdom
by F.A. Hayek
The Right Word
by Samuel S. Vaughan and William F. Buckley Jr.
God And Man At Yale
by William F. Buckley Jr.
The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals
by William J. Bennett
The Reagan Diaries
by Ronald Reagan
Conscience of a Conservative
by Barry Goldwater
A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror
by Larry Schweikart and Michael Patrick Allen
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, and Clinton Rossiter
Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America
by Newt Gingrich
What Color Is a Conservative?: My Life and My Politics
by J. C. Watts
The Gulag
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright
Meditations on First Philosophy
by Rene Descartes
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
Two Treatises of Government
by John Locke
Reflections on the Human Condition
by Eric Hoffer
Lone Survivor
by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson
Carnage and Culture
by Victor Hanson
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell
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Great post and plan to share and blog asap.
Merry Christmas to all,
Sandie
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Sandra Crosnoe’s last blog post..Ron Paul Brickfilm - Video animation from January 2008
The stated goal to “reclaim Congress for Conservative Republicans in 2010″ is the reason I refuse to join #TCOT. The GOP needs to die and a party based on constitutional libertarianism/subsidiarianism needs to take its place. I wish Ron Paul all the best in his quest to rescue the GOP from itself, but I think his efforts will fail - and should fail. The party is terminally ill due to corruption, greed, arrogance, sloth, and warmongering imperialism. Pull the plug so the poor animal can die with some shred of dignity left.
Eric, while I agree with some of what you said, you have to realize that the libertarian party can’t challenge the democrats any time soon. The point is we are trying to reform the party. That has a much better chance at success.
I didn’t say the Libertarian Party is the answer. I said a libertarian(ish) party is. The LP is a bit too dogmaticly top-to-bottom libertarian IMHO.
I haven’t seen any history (other than Bennets daily readings)–here’s a very good one from another outside observer(this one English!) - A History of the American People by Paul Johnson.
Another very readable one is A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror by Larry Schweikart and Michael Patrick Allen
Thanks chuck, added to the list.
Currently reading Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag. Deep, dark and a “Warning to the West”…makes one take stock of our great country, and where its headed. I’d add this to the list, too.
How about something / anything by Eric Hoffer ??
zookies’s last blog post..Religion is the opiate of the masses - the next bailout
More added, thanks for all the input!
Sorry, too many partisan & mass media hacks on this list for it to be useful. A broken clock may be right twice a day, but you still wouldn’t use it to for telling time.
The Conservative’s Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z
Robin Smith’s last blog post..robints: @tim_knight#coalash #tcot .Acknowledge horrible situation & expln in keeping indpdce re: energy, coal provides @least 50%US electricity.
Everything I’ve read of Vince Flynn’s has been excellent.
Alice H’s last blog post..Bug Theatre
May I add, The Forsaken by Tim Tzoudlias. Wow, a true indictment of Stalin and really showed me how fast a leader can become a dictator!
Carolyn D’s last blog post..Views from a Right Wing Wacko Mom. Part II