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CONSERVATIVE BOOKLIST CONSERVATIVE BOOKLIST CONSERVATIVE BOOKLIST
The Conservative Booklist - compiled: May, 1993, London, Ont, Can,
by J. Verhagen. Formatted for 70 columns.
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Updated version - Finished & Posted: June, 1993,
AIM: To provide a reference for people interested in reading
"conservative literature"; To provide a selection of recent,
relevant and well-researched titles, as well as older -but still
relevant- "classics". I also wanted to keep this list reasonably
compact.
DISCLAIMER: This is a list of books that advance different aspects of
the conservative perspective; their perspective may not be completely
consistent with your own. Nevertheless, I have done my best to make
certain that this list reflects my understanding of what conservatism
is, as well as to reflect what I believe yours to be -on the basis of
submitted titles. In other words, I don't want this list to inspire
endless arguments about what constitutes conservatism, or about
whether or not a particular book deserves to be mentioned here. This
list is meant to give you an overview of conservative literature, not
to define it.
DISCLAIMER: I have done everything in my power to make certain that
references, reviews, prices, etc. are as accurate as possible. Since
many reviews are second-hand (submitted with titles), I cannot vouch
for their accuracy; also some people may consider a work great, while
others may consider it poor: judgement calls in this area strike me
as somewhat subjective. There may also be syntactical errors, or some
incompleteness.
note: For a LIBERTARIAN BookList, contact: sierra@ora.com
There are two sections... (the intro to each will explain them)
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I. A List of Authors/Titles submitted. This section is a list of the
recommended titles by each author, and demonstrates the volume, and
diversity of each author's work. The popularity of an author and of
their titles given is also indicated, ie.- I could have listed every
work by William F. Buckley if I was so inclined; instead, I list only
those that were recommended by you. Here we go.
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Adler, Mortimer Jerome, "Ten Philosophical Mistakes"
Anderson, Martin, "Imposters in the Temple"
Anderson, Terry, "Free Market Environmentalism"
Ames, Bruce, "Nature's Cancers"
Aristotle, "The Complete Works of Aristotle"
Babbitt, Irving, "Rousseau and Romanticism"
Bailey, Ronald, "Eco-Scam"
Bandow, Doug, "The Politics of Plunder"
Bartley, Robert L., "The Seven Fat Years"
Bastiat, Frederic, "The Law"
Bastiat, Frederic, "Selected Essays on Political Economy"
Bast, Rue, Westbury, "Why We Spend Too Much on Health Care"
Batra, Ravi, "The Great Earthquake of 1990"
Belz, Herman, "Equality Transformed"
Bennett, William, "The Devaluing of America"
Bennett, William, "Our Children and Our Country"
Bloom, Allen, "The Closing of the American Mind"
Borjas, George, "Strangers or Friends"
Bork, Robert, "The Tempting of America"
Bovard, James, "Farm Fiasco"
Brock, David, "The Real Anita Hill"
Buckley, William F., "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?"
Buckley, William F., "God and Man at Yale"
Buckley, William F., "Right Reason: a collection"
Buckley, William F., "Up From Liberalism"
Burke, Edmund, "Reflections on the Revolution in France"
Burkett, Larry, "The Upcoming Economic Earthquake"
Carlson, Allan C., "Family Questions"
Carlson, Allan C., "The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics"
Carter, Stephen, L., "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby"
Chambers, Whittaker, "Witness"
Charles, Maurice S., "The Doomsday Myth"
Chesterton, G.K., "Brave New Family"
Christensen, Bryce J., "Utopia Against the Family"
Chubb, and Moe, "Politics, Markets, and American Schools"
Collier, Peter, and ... "Deconstructing the Left"
Collier, Peter, and ... "Destructive Generation"
Confucius, "The Analects of Confucius"
Crouch, Stanley, "Notes of a Hanging Judge"
Dannemeyer, William, "Shadow in the Land"
Davidson, Nicholas, ed.,"Gender Sanity"
De Jouvenal, Bertrand, "The Ethics of Redistribution"
Denton, Michael, "Evolution"
Dicey, Albert Venn, "Introduction to the Study of Law/Constitution"
Dobson, James, and ... "Children at Risk"
D'Souza, Dinesh, "Illiberal Education"
Epstein, Richard, "Forbidden Grounds"
Epstein, Richard, "Takings"
Figgie, Harry F., "Bankruptcy 1995"
Filler, Louis, "Dictionary of American Conservatism"
Friedman, Milton, "Capitalism and Freedom"
Friedman, Milton & Rose "Free to Choose"
Fumento, Michael, "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS"
Fumento, Michael, "Science Under Siege"
Gairdner, William D., "The War Against the Family"
Gallagher, Maggie, "Enemies of Eros"
Gallaway, Lowell, E., "Out of Work"
Gentles, Ian, ed., "A Time to Choose Life"
Gilder, George, "Men and Marriage"
Gilder, George, "Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise"
Gilder, George, "Wealth and Poverty"
Glazer, Nathan, "Affirmative Discrimination"
Glazer, Nathan, "The Limits of Social Policy"
Glazer, Nathan,Moynihan "Beyond the Melting Pot"
Goldberg, Steven, "The Inevitability of Patriarchy"
Goldwater, Barry, M., "The Conscience of a Conservative"
Grant, George, "Grand Illusions"
Hart, Benjamin, "Poisoned Ivy"
Hayek, Friedrich A., "The Constitution of Liberty"
Hayek, Friedrich A., "The Fatal Conceit"
Hayek, Friedrich A., "The Road to Serfdom"
Hayek, Friedrich A., "Law, Legislation and Liberty"
Hayek, Friedrich A., "Socialism and the Intellectuals"
Hazlitt, Henry, "Economics in One Lesson"
Hume, David, "A Treatise on Human Nature"
Huntford, Roland, "The New Totalitarians"
Hutchins, Robert, "Great Books of the Western World ; v.1"
Jackley, John, L., "Hill Rat"
Jefferson, Thomas, "Democracy"
Jefferson, Thomas, "The Life and Selected Writings of T.J."
Johnson, Paul, "Intellectuals"
Johnson, Paul, "Modern Times"
Kasun, Jacqueline, "The War Against Population"
Kendall, Willmoore, "Willmoore Kendall Contra Mundum"
Kimball, Roger, "Tenured Radicals"
Kirk, Russell, "The Conservative Mind"
Kirk, Russell, "The Roots of American Order"
Kirk, Russell, "Edmund Burke"
Kirk, Russell, "John Randolph of Roanoke"
Kirk, Russell, "The Portable Conservative Reader"
Kirk, Russell, "A Program for Conservatives"
Kirkpatrick, Jean, "America and the World"
Kristol, Irving, "Reflections of a Neoconservative"
Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik "Leftism Revisited"
LaHaye, Tim, "The Battle for the Mind"
Lasch, Christopher, "Haven in a Heartless World"
Lehr, Jay H., ed., "Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns"
Leoni, Bruno, "Freedom and the Law"
Levin, Michael, "Feminism and Freedom"
Lewis, C.S., "Mere Christianity"
Lewis, C.S., "The Great Divorce"
Lewis, C.S., "The Abolition of Man"
Lieberman, Myron, "Privatization and Educational Choice"
Limbaugh, Rush H., "The Way Things Ought To Be"
Locke, John, "Discourses"
Hamilton, Madison, Jay, "The Federalist Papers"
Marmor, Judd, ed., "Homosexual Behaviour"
Milosz, Czeslaw, "The Captive Mind"
Mises, Ludwig Von, "Bureaucracy"
Mises, Ludwig Von, "Human Action"
Mises, Ludwig Von, "Socialism"
Montesquieu, Charles, "The Spirit of the Laws"
Murray, Charles, "In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government"
Murray, Charles, "Losing Ground"
Nash, George, "The Conservative Intellectual Movement..."
Nash, Ronald, "The Closing of the American Heart"
Nathanson, Bernard N., "Aborting America"
Nock, A.J., "Our Enemy the State"
North, Oliver, "Under Fire"
Oakshott, Michael, "Rationalism and Politics"
O'Rourke, P.J., "Give War a Chance"
O'Rourke, P.J., "Parliament of Whores"
O'Rourke, P.J., "Holidays in Hell"
O'Rourke, P.J., "Republican Party Reptile"
Novak, Michael, "The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism"
Pasour, E.C, "Agriculture and the State"
Peden, and Glahe, "The American Family and the State"
Posner, Richard, A., "Sex and Reason"
Ray, Dixie Lee, "Environmental Overkill"
Ray, Dixie Lee, "Trashing the Planet"
Reisman, Dr. Judith A., "Kinsey, Sex and Fraud"
Reisman, George, "The Toxicity of Environmentalism"
Reisman, George, "The Government Against the Economy"
Roche, George, "One By One"
Schlesinger, Arthur, "The Disuniting of America"
Scruton, Roger, "The Meaning of Conservatism"
Simon, Julian, "The Ultimate Resource"
Smith, Adam, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments"
Smith, Adam, "The Wealth of Nations"
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr "The Gulag Archipelago"
Sowell, Thomas, "Civil Rights"
Sowell, Thomas, "Compassion Versus Guilt"
Sowell, Thomas, "The Economics of Politics and Race"
Sowell, Thomas, "Inside American Education"
Sowell, Thomas, "Knowledge and Decisions"
Sowell, Thomas, "Markets and Minorities"
Sowell, Thomas, "Pink and Brown People, and Other..."
Sowell, Thomas, "Preferential Policies"
Sowell, Thomas, "Race and Economics"
Steele, Shelby, "The Content of our Character"
Sykes, Charles, J., "Prof Scam"
Taylor, Jared, "Paved With Good Intentions"
Tebbit, Norman, "Upwardly Mobile"
Thatcher, Margaret, "In Defence of Freedom"
Thucydides, "The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Tocqueville, Alexis de.,"Democracy in America"
Tyrrell, R. Emmett, "The Liberal Crack-up"
Tyrrell, R. Emmett, "Public Nuisances"
Tyrrell, R. Emmett, "The Future that Doesn't Work"
Washington, George, "A Collection"
Weaver, Richard M., "Ideas have consequences"
Weber, Max., "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of..."
White, Richard W. "Rude Awakenings"
Wildavsky, Aaron, "The Rise of Radical Egalitarianism"
Will, George F., "The Morning After"
Will, George F., "Restoration"
Will, George F., "Suddenly"
Wolfe, Gregory, "Right Minds"
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II. The Comprehensive Booklist -
Contains Author, Title, Imprint Info, Review, Prices, etc. for ONE
popular work for EACH author. This rule allows me to pare down the
size of the list. It also emphasizes less known authors. The previous
section was given to reveal other works by the authors. This one goes
into more detail on a "significant" work by each author. I chose the
"significant" work on the basis of the number of people who referred
to it (as opposed to other works by the same author). Where this
would not work, I used my own discretion (which can be somewhat arbi-
trary). Please - no endless arguments about whether a work is "signi-
ficant" or not.
Imprint Info: From library electronic catalogue; most recent
imprint info is usually given.
Review: For books marked (G), they are usually Gairdner's
comments on the book, some are mine; For other books,
the comments are either edited versions of reviews
sent to me by contributers, or they are mine.
Prices/Etc: These are given where known.
US=United States Dollars; CAN=Canadian Dollars.
HC=Hard Cover; SC=Soft Cover.
(G) From Gairdner's "The War Against the Family" Selected
Biography [I've found these to be typically relevant
and qualitatively good]
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Adler, Mortimer Jerome, "Ten Philosophical Mistakes," New York:
Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, c1985.
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Anderson, Martin, "Imposters in the Temple," New York; Toronto: Simon
& Schuster, c1992. It has [some] good stories about hubris in the
academy.
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Anderson, Terry, "Free Market Environmentalism," San Francisco: Pacific
Research Institute for Public Policy: Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.
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Ames, Bruce, "Nature's Cancers," - a video on naturally occurring
carcinogens (watch that broccoli!). ($19.95 US, video)
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Aristotle, "The Complete Works of Aristotle: the revised Oxford
translation," Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.
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Babbitt, Irving, "Rousseau and Romanticism," New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Transaction Publishers, 1991. Originally published in 1919. A tough,
wonderful read, for those with background in the history of ideas. (G)
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Bailey, Ronald, "Eco-Scam: the false prophets of ecological
apocalypse," St. Martin's Press, 1993. For budding skeptics (178 pg)
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Bandow, Doug, "The Politics of Plunder: misgovernment in washington,"
New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, c1990. The
Federal Govt. and interest groups are shown to have badly mismanaged
the political process for private ends. (508pg)
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Bartley, Robert, L., "The Seven Fat Years." The seven fat years is
shown to have resulted from the successful economic policies of the
1980's. The abandonment of said policies caused the recession. (348pg)
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Bastiat, Frederic, "The Law," Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: The
Foundation for Economic Education, 1981. Basic, inspiring. (G)
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Bast, Joseph, and Rue, Richard, and Wesbury, Stuart, "Why We Spend Too
Much on Health Care," Heartland Institute, 1992. (130pg)
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Batra, Ravi, "The Great Earthquake of 1990." This book is said to be
still applicable; he just didn't take deficit spending into account.
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Belz, Herman, "Equality Transformed: a quarter-century of affirmative
action," [Bowling Green, OH]: Social Philosophy & Policy Center: New
Brunswick, USA: Transaction Publishers, 1991. Affirmative action is
shown to have evolved into reverse discrimination. (320pg)
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Bennett, William, "The Devaluing of America," Bennett's explains what
the "culture war" is really all about; and he offers suggestions to
improve education. Liberals hate it because it shows what they are.
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Bloom, Allen, "The Closing of the American Mind," New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1987. To understand conservatism, social culture, and
education.
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Borjas, George, "Strangers or Friends: principles for a new alien
admission policy," Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1986.
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Bork, Robert, "The Tempting of America: the political seduction of the
law," New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, c1990. Helps
understand the transformation of the judicial system over the last
fifty years.
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Bovard, James, "Farm Fiasco: how federal agriculture policy squanders
billions of dollars a year, sacrifices the poor to the rich, and gives
Congressmen and Bureaucrats vast arbitrary power over American
Citizens," Institute for Independent Studies, 1989. (356pg)
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Brock, David, "The Real Anita Hill: the untold story" The American
Spectator's David Brock scrutinizes Anita Hill's evidence -and
character. (HC)
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Buckley, William F., "Right Reason: a collection," Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1985. A collection of essays by National Review's "Editor-
at-Large," William F. Buckley Jr. (HC)
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Burke, Edmund, "Reflections on the Revolution in France," Garden City,
N.Y., Doubleday, [1961]. The case for conservatism has never been
better put; contains real intellectual force. (HC)
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Burkett, Larry, "The Upcoming Economic Earthquake." A "must read" book
which argues against entitlements, big govt., and tax and spend
policies.
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Carlson, Allan C., "The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics," New
Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1990. A magnifying
glass on social engineering.(G)
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Carter, Stephen, L., "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby."
Documents the effects of "affirmative-action" on its recipients.
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Chambers, Whittaker, "Witness," Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1952. Discusses
how/why Stalinism could have such an appeal to American intellectuals.
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Charles, Maurice S., "The Doomsday Myth: 10,000 years of economic
crises," Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford
University, c1984. A "freer" free market would lead to lesser use of
resources. ($11.95 US, 142pgSC)
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Chesterton, G.K., "Brave New Family," San Francisco: Ignatius Press,
1990. A Chesteryon collection that is wise, trenchant, and memorable.
(G)
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Christensen, Bryce J., "Utopia Against the Family," San Francisco:
Ignatius Press, 1990. A concise condemnation of dreamlanders. (G)
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Chubb, John E., and Moe, Terry M., "Politics, Markets, and American
Schools," Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1990. A
legitimization of educational privitization. (G)
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Clinton, Bill, "Taxing People First: how we can all change America,"
New York: Times Books, c1992. An American president discusses the best
way to convert a Democracy into a Welfare State.
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Collier, Peter, and Horowitz, David, "Destructive Generation: second
thoughts about the sixties," New York; Toronto: Summit Books, c1989.
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Confucius, "The Analects of Confucius," New York, Paragon Book Reprint
Corp., 1968.
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Crouch, Stanley, "Notes of a Hanging Judge: essays and reviews. 1979-
1989," New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990. About race
relations.
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Dannemeyer, William, "Shadow in the Land: homosexuality in America,"
San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989. A look inside the movement. (G)
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Davidson, Nicholas, ed., "Gender Sanity," New York: University Press of
America, 1989. Challenges the dogma. (G) (HC)
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De Jouvenal, Bertrand, "The Ethics of Redistribution," Indianapolis:
Liberty Press, c1990. Demonstrates why redistributionism results in
decreased personal responsibility, and increased bureaucracy and the
State. (100pg)
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Denton, Michael, "Evolution: a theory in crisis," London: Burnett
Books, 1985. Discredits the theory of evolution from a scientific
perspective.
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Dicey, Albert Venn, "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the
Constitution," London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press,
[1959, 1961].
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Dobson, James, and Bauer, Gary, "Children at Risk." Traces the great
unraveling of American culture and morals of the last 30 years. Gives
common sense advice on how children can be protected.
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D'Souza, Dinesh, "Illiberal Education: the politics of race and sex on
campus," New York: Free Press; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada,
c1991. Excellently researched expose and condemnation of campus
ideologues and their activities (320pgHC)
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Epstein, Richard, "Forbidden Grounds: the case against employment
discrimination laws," Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
1992. A very skillful discussion on why discrimination laws aren't
such a good idea.
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Figgie, Harry F., "Bankruptcy 1995: the coming collapse of America and
how to stop it," Boston; Toronto: Little Brown, c1992.
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Filler, Louis, "Dictionary of American Conservatism," New York:
Philosophical Library, c1987. A who's who of American conservatives,
and a source of information on the conservative lexicon.
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Friedman, Milton & Rose "Free to Choose: a personal statement," San
Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990. A book on economics.
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Fumento, Michael, "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," New York: Basic
Books, c1990. The title says it all.
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Gairdner, William D., "The War Against the Family: a parent speaks
out," Toronto: Stoddart, 1992. An erudite expose of the enemies of the
traditional Canadian Family; By a former Stanford professor of
literature and philosophy. ($32.95 CAN, HC)
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Gallagher, Maggie, "Enemies of Eros: how the sexual revolution is
killing Family, marriage, and sex and what we can do about it,"
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1989. A bright and feeling woman's view. (G)
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Gallaway, Lowell, E., "Out of Work: unemployment and government in
twentieth-century America," New York: Holmes & Meier, 1993. A critique
of government efforts to reduce unemployment - which are found to have
increased it on the whole.
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Gentles, Ian, ed., "A Time to Choose Life: women, abortion, and human
rights," Toronto: Stoddart, 1990. Full of insightful, make-you-think
essays. (G) (SC)
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Gilder, George, "Men and Marriage," Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican
Publishing, 1986. Societies that ignore innate gender differences, do
so at their own peril. A classic. (G)
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Glazer, Nathan, and Moynihan, Daniel P., "Beyond the Melting Pot: the
Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City,"
Cambridge, M.I.T. Press [1970]. Two atypical liberals discover that
the Family, rather than the succour of the government, has lifted
generations of immigrants out of poverty.
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Goldberg, Steven, "The Inevitability of Patriarchy," New York, Morrow,
1973. Golberg disputes claims of the existence and survival of
matriarchal societies, and shows why patriarchy is inevitable. A
classic.
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Goldwater, Barry, M., "The Conscience of a Conservative,"
Shepherdsville, Ky., Victor Pub. Co. [1960]. A must-read, timeless
discourse on conservatism; Points out the links between conservativism
and freedom.
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Grant, George, "Grand Illusions: The legacy of Planned Parenthood,"
Brentwood, Tennessee: Wolgemuth and Hyatt, 1988. Scholarly, biblical,
and chock-a-block with good notes. (G)
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Hamilton, Madison, Jay, "The Federalist Papers," Harmondsworth,
Middlesex ; Markham, Ont.: Penguin, 1987. The arguments that sold the
Constitution.
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Hart, Benjamin, "Poisoned Ivy," New York: Stein and Day, 1984. About
the early exploits of the founders of the Dartmouth Review.
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Hayek, Friedrich A., "The Road to Serfdom," Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1944. The classic first step in a conservative, or
classical liberal, education. (G)
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Hazlitt, Henry, "Economics in One Lesson," Arlington House, 1946.
Like a surgeon's scalpel, it cuts through... much of the economic
nonsense that has been written in recent years about our economic
ailments -- John W. Hanes (former Undersecretary of the Treasury)
(218pg)
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Hume, David, "A Treatise on Human Nature ... and Dialogues Concerning
Religion," London, Longmans Green, 1878.
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Huntford, Roland, "The New Totalitarians," New York: Stein and Day,
1972. Unveils a scandal, then and now. (G)
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Hutchins, Robert, "Great Books of the Western World ; v.1," Chicago;
Toronto: Encyclopaedia Britannica; W. Benton, c1952. The DWEM's
(Dead White European Male's) greatest hits.
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Jackley, John, L., "Hill Rat." A telling expose of what went on in
Congress duing the 1980's; Includes interesting Democrat complicity
in Iran-Contra.
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Jefferson, Thomas, "The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas
Jefferson," New York: The Modern Library, 1944.
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Johnson, Paul, "Modern Times: the world from the twenties to the
eighties," New York: Harper & Row, c1983. A former leftist explores
how the philosophy of the left has, in modern times, resulted in the
slaughter of millions.
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Kasun, Jacqueline, "The War Against Population: the economics and
ideology of population control," San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988.
An expose of the population watermelons (radical environmentalists:
green on the outside, red on the inside). (G)
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Kendall, Willmoore, "Willmoore Kendall Contra Mundum," New Rochelle,
N.Y., Arlington House [1971]
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Kimball, Roger, "Tenured Radicals: how politics has corrupted our
higher education," New York ; Toronto: Harper & Row, c1990. (222pg)
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Kirk, Russell, "The Conservative Mind," London, Faber & Faber, ltd.,
1954. Explores the conservative tradition, and conservative thought.
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Kirkpatrick, Jean, "America and the World." Discusses international
relations (from a conservative point of view).
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Kristol, Irving, "Reflections of a Neoconservative," New York: Basic
Books, 1983. (G)
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Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von, "Leftism Revisited: from deSade and Marx to
Hitler and Pol Pot," Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway: Lanham, MD:
Distributed by National Book Network, 1990. Detailed, well-documented;
by a person who _understands_ history. (Hitler is shown to be a member
of the Left)
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LaHaye, Tim, "The Battle for the Mind."
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Lasch, Christopher, "Haven in a Heartless World: the Family besieged,"
New York: Basic Books, 1977. Heavy, thoughtful, sincere, by a mild
anti-capitalist. (G)
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Lehr, Jay H., ed., "Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns," 51
Scientists contribute 81 articles on 29 different (environmental)
subjects. Essence of environmentalism shown to be contempt for man and
for the achievements of mankind. ($49.95 US, 840pgHC)
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Leoni, Bruno, "Freedom and the Law," Princeton, N.J.,; Toronto: Van
Nostrand, [1961].
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Levin, Michael, "Feminism and Freedom," New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Transaction Books, 1987. A sinewy philosophical mind shreds a sloppy
ideology. (G) Feminism is subjected to rigorous logical analysis and
it is found to be sadly deficient. Excellent anti-abortion arguments
in last chapter.
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Lewis, C.S., "Mere Christianity," New York: Macmillian, 1960.
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Lieberman, Myron, "Privatization and Educational Choice," New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1989. Privatization of schools is the way to go. How
to do it is also discussed. (386pg)
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Limbaugh, Rush H., "The Way Things Ought To Be," New York: Pocket
Books, 1992. America's "Big Guy of Talk Radio" sounds off on a variety
of topics. At least 2.5 Million copies sold. ($22.00 US, HC)
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Locke, John, "Discourses:tr from Nicole's Essays," London, Harvey and
Darton, 1828.
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Marmor, Judd, ed., "Homosexual Behaviour: a modern reappraisal," New
York: Basic Books, 1980. (G)
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Milosz, Czeslaw, "The Captive Mind, tr. Jane Zielonko," London, Mercury
Books, [1962]. Essential book on the threat of totalitarianism to
intellectual inquiry and morality.
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Mises, Ludwig Von, "Socialism: an economic and sociological analysis,"
London, J. Cape, [1953]. A classic critique of socialism.
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Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, "The Spirit of the Laws," Cambridge;
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. One of the foundations
upon which the United States was built.
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Murray, Charles, "Losing Ground," New York: Basic Books, 1984. A
thorough-going, compassionate analysis of why welfare always fails.
(G) (324pg)
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Nash, Ronald, "The Closing of the American Heart."
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Nathanson, Bernard N., "Aborting America," Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1979. A former abortionists (and leader/creator of NARAL)
discusses how and why he changed to a more pro-life position. (HC)
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Nock, A.J., "Our Enemy the State," New York, Arno Press, 1972 [c1935].
The title says it all.
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North, Oliver, "Under Fire: an America story," New York, NY:
HarperCollins Publishers: [Grand Rapids, Mich.]: Zondervan, 1991.
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Oakshott, Michael, "Rationalism and Politics."
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O'Rourke, P.J., "Parliament of Whores: a lone humorist attempts to
explain the entire U.S. government," Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
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Novak, Michael, "The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism," New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1982. Brilliant and Deep. (G)
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Pasour, E.C., "Agriculture and the State: market processes and
bureaucracy," The Independent Institute, 1990. A more scholarly
analysis of Agriculture. (258pg)
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Peden, Joseph R., and Glahe, Fred R., "The American Family and the
State," San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy,
1986. A feast of essays on a wide range of Family topics. (G)
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Posner, Richard, A., "Sex and Reason," Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1992. An examination of governmental regulation of
behaviour from a utilitarian viewpoint.
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Ray, Dixie Lee, "Trashing the Planet," Washington D.C.: Regnery
Gateway: Lanham. MD: Distributed by National Book Network, c1990.
Environmental catastrophe myths exposed. ($19.95 US, 206 pgHC)
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Reisman, Dr. Judith A., "Kinsey, Sex and Fraud: the indoctrination of
a people," Lafayette, Louisiana: Lochinvar, Inc., 1990. Kinsey
supervised the molestation of over 200 children, and manipulated data
to promote his pro-pansexual/pro-pederastic view. (G)
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Reisman, George, "The Toxicity of Environmentalism," principalled
analysis of the anti-(hu)man underpinnings of environmentalism.
($4.95 US, pamph)
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Roche, George, "One By One."
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Schlesinger Jr, Arthur M "The Disuniting of America," New York: Norton,
c1992. About race-relations and multiculturalism (I believe).
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Scruton, Roger, "The Meaning of Conservatism," London: Macmillan, 1984.
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Simon, Julian, "The Ultimate Resource," Princeton, N.J. : Princeton
University Press, c1981. Claims per capita food production, and
agricultural land supply is actually growing; our environment is
becoming cleaner and healthier, and energy supplies are becoming more
abundant. ($19.95 US, 415pgSC)
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Smith, Adam, "The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III," Harmondsworth,
Middlesex, England ; Markham, Ont.: Penguin Books, c1986.
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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, "The Gulag Archipelago: an experiment in
literary investigation," New York: Harper & Row, [1974-76]
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Sowell, Thomas, "Inside American Education: the decline, the deception,
the dogmas," Free Press, 1993. Superb. The American Educational system
is shown to be morally and intellectually bankrupt, not to mention
full of dogmas and deceptions. (368pg)
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Steele, Shelby, "The Content of Our Character: a new vision of race in
America," New York: St. Martin Press, c1990. Blacks are said to be
more oppressed by doubt than by racism; and social policies designed
to lessen racial differences have instead made them greater (as
D'Souza also discovered in "Illiberal Education"). (176pg)
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Sykes, Charles, J., "Prof Scam: professors and the demise of higher
education," Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway: New York, NY:
Distributed to the trade by Kampmann & Co., c1988. A liv[ely] book...
recommended as THE book on education. Great.
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Taylor, Jared, "Paved With Good Intentions," New York, N.Y.: Carroll &
Graf, 1992. The source book on America's vital race issues for the
thinking citizen. Insightful, convincing, and extensively documented.
(416pg)
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Tebbit, Norman, "Upwardly Mobile," London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson,
c1988.
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Thatcher, Margaret, "In Defence of Freedom : speeches on Britain's
relations with the world," London: Aurum Press, 1986.
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Thucydides, "The History of the Peloponnesian War," London: Longmans,
Green, 1876.
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Tocqueville, Alexis de., "Democracy in America," New York: Knopf, 1987,
c1945. A classic account of the present and future of 1830's America;
which is as true today as it was then.
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett, "The Future that Doesn't Work : social democracy's
failures in Britain," Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.
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Washington, George, "A Collection. Ed. by W.B. Allen," LibertyFund.
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Weaver, Richard M., "Ideas have consequences," Chicago, University of
Chicago Press, [1965, c1948].
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Weber, Max., "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,"
London: Allen & Unwin, 1976.
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White, Richard W., "Rude Awakenings."
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Wildavsky, Aaaron, "The Rise of Radical Egalitarianism."
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Will, George F., "Restoration - Term Limits and the Restoration of
Deliberative Democracy," George Will's argument for term limits,
featuring outrageous computer-gerrymandered district maps to prove his
point.
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Wolfe, Gregory, "Right Minds: a sourcebook of American conservative
thought," Chicago: Regnery Books, c1987. Contains a book list similiar
to the one I am now making, as well as information on conservative
organizations and publishers.
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A Special thanks to all those who contributed and made this booklist a
possibility (some of whom aren't conservative). Thanks go out to:
mjcarley@unix2.tcd.ie
harrison@sparc0a.cs.uiuc.edu
djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
msubu@csv.warwick.ac.uk
charles@bravo.corp.sgi.com
ptak@cs.buffalo.edu
seelowe@well.sf.ca.us
djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
chdunn@cco.caltech.edu
grec@midway.uchicago.edu
arras@forwiss.uni-erlangen.de
KEBARNES@MSUVX1.MEMST.EDU
sulkanen@pecos.msfc.nasa.gov
tomm@wv.MENTORG.COM
merritt@macro.bu.edu
jdough@unf6.cis.unf.edu
aaiken@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
kepley@photon.phys.unca.edu
wbralick@afit.af.mil
cla04@keele.ac.uk
wts!meb@uunet.UU.NET
sneed@engin.umich.edu
scasburn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
s1083509@cedarville.edu
dlnels01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu
Mike_Sierra@macmailgate.ora.com
jehartley@ucdavis.edu
muthu@lecter.Stanford.EDU
shou@midway.uchicago.edu
gt4925b@prism.gatech.edu
brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us
norris@athena.mit.edu
rfinch@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU
leahy@math.rutgers.edu
jk@panix.com
rgonzale@weber.ucsd.edu
sjm@world.std.com
phil@StarConn.com
wgb3@cc.bellcore.com
rickertj@athena.cas.vanderbilt.edu
jcwgroup@ccmail.orst.edu
jlaplant@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
jbrock@Panix.Com
sals@amber.uchicago.edu
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