Founding Documents, Early American and Western History

The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation by Thomas Jefferson and other founders.

The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates by Ralph Ketcham

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings by Thomas Paine

John Adams by Dave McCullough

1776 by David McCullough

The Passion of the Western Mind - Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present - 500 Years of Wester Cultural Life by Jaques Barzun

For the Young and / or Beginning Conservative Readers

The Politically Incorrect Guide to...

(just buy the whole "PIG" series, these are real eye openers and easy and informative reads). Use these to counteract some of the mush they are pumping into your kids heads at school.

We the People: The Story of Our Constitution by Lynne Cheney

Conservative Mainstream Thought and Current Events

Fleeced by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

America: The Last Best Hope, (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War by William Bennett

America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom by William Bennett

Reality Check: The Unreported Good News About America by Dennis Keegan, David West

Economic Facts and Falacies by Thomas Sowell

Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hopebt Michael Yon

America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It by Mark Steyn

Power to the People by Laura Ingraham

Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies by M. Stanton Evans

An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems by Glenn Beck

Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender by Kenneth R. Timmerman

Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't by John R. Lott Jr.

The Conservative's Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z by Phil Valentine

Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline by Robert H. Bork

My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas

Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto by Ted Nugent

Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America by Chuck Norris

Winning the Future - A 21st Century Contract with America by Newt Gingrich

Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis by New Gingrich

A National Party No More by Zell Miller (a Conservative Democrat! - rare as hen's teeth)

A Deficit of Decency by Zell Miller

The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land by Andrew Napolitano

The Death of Common Sense - How Law is Suffocating America by Phillip K. Howard

Paleoconservative Thought

Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism: The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1993, by Frohnen, Bruce.

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot. 7th ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2001, Kirk, Russell

Mere Christianity by Lewis, C. S.

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George H. Nash’s

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman

Socialism:An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig von Mises

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man Albert J. Nock

Witness by Whittaker Chambers

In Defense of Freedom by Frank Meyer

The New Science of Politics by Eric Voegelin

Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver

The Quest For Community by Robert Nisbet

On the Democratic Idea in America by Irving Kristol

Conservatism: Dream and Reality by Robert Nisbet

Liberalism (Short Introduction to Classical Liberalism) by John Gray

Portable Conservative Reader by Russell Kirk

The Public Philosophy Reader by Ed., Richard Bishirjian

Right Minds by Gregory Wolfe

Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk

Bureaucracy by Ludwig von Mises

The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

The Conservative Affirmation in America by Willmoore Kendall

A Humane Economy by Wilhelm Roepke

The Constitution of Liberty by F. A. Hayek

Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss

A Better Guide Than Reason by M. E. Bradford

The Crisis of Western Education by Christopher Dawson

The Anti-Capitalist Mentality by Ludwig von Mises

Democracy and Leadership by Irving Babbitt

The Social Crisis of Our Time by Wilhelm Roepke

The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc

I’ll Take My Stand by Twelve Southerners

Visions of Order by Richard Weaver

Notes Toward the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot

James Burnham and The Managerial Revolution by George Orwell

Attack on Leviathan (retitled Regionalism and Nationalism in the U.S.) by Donald Davidson

Christianity and Political Philosophy by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

Enemies of the Permanent Things by Russell Kirk

Reflections of a Neoconservative by Irving Kristol

Our Enemy, The State by Albert Jay Nock

Crowd Culture by Bernard Iddings Bell

The Politics of Prudence by Russell Kirk

Literature and the American College by Irving Babbitt

Order and History (5 vols) by Eric Voegelin

Up from Liberalism by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Historical Consciousness by John Lukacs

Original Intentions by M. E. Bradford

The Decline of the Intellectual by Thomas Molnar

Human Action by Ludwig von Mises

Law, Legislation, & Liberty (3 vols) by F. A. Hayek

Suicide of the West by James Burnham

The Theory of Education in the United States by Albert Jay Nock

Deconstructing the Left

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg

Shadow World by Robert Chandler

A Conservative History of the American Left by Daniel J. Flynn

Intellectual Morons - How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas by Daniel J. Flynn

The Political Zoo by Michael Savage

For the "Militant Conservatives" Out There -- Blog On Man!

Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies by Gregg Jackson

Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy by Peter Schweizer

Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know is Wrong by John Stossel

How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter by Ann Coulter

Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann Coulter

The 10 Big Lies About America - Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation by Michael Medved

48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned in School) by Larry Schweikart

The Failure Factory (How Unelected Bureaucrats, Liberal Democrats and Big Government Republicans are Undermining America's Security and Leading us to War) by Bill Gertz

Know Your Enemy: Liberals, Progressives, Socialist, Nihilists, the Hard Left, Radical Islam and the MSM

Teach Yourself Postmodernism by Glenn Ward

The Koran by unknown, Muhammad was illiterate but had scribes...

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Sociological Theory by George Ritzer

The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao, Gandhi and Others ed. Blaisdel

Social and Political Philosophy: Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Thoreau, Mill, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Dewey, Gandhi Edited by John Somerville and Ronald E. Santoni

The Assualt on Reason by Al Gore (nice self describing title Al!)

The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman

Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense by David Cay Johnston

Know Even More of Your Enemy (the hard Left, Progressives, Socialists, Syndicalists, Marxists, Communits, Anarchist) i.e. The "Hate America Crowd"

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michael Foucault

Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida

Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times: The Left and Economic Policy since 1980 by Andrew Glyn

Labour and the Challenges of Globalization: What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity? by Andreas Bieler (Author), Ingemar Lindberg (Author), Devan Pillay

Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-Border Campaigns by Kate Bronfenbrenner

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy by Adam David Morton

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics by Ernesto Laclau

Rules for Radical by Saul Alinksy (The original Marxist "community organizer" that was very influential on Obama)

Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinksy

Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky (could't he just have stuck to linquistics?)

Against The Terror of Neoliberalism - Politics Beyond the Age of Greed by Henry A. Giroux (what a bafoon!).

Dispatches from Latin America: On the Frontlines Against Neoliberalism by Vijay Prashad (Editor), Teo Ballve (Editor)

Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities : Consequences for Health and Quality of Life by Vincente Navarro

Antonio Gramsci : Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism by Renate Holub, Holub Renate

The Left Leaning Presidents That Got Us Into this Mess

FDR's Folly by Jim Powell

Wilson's War by Jim Powell

New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America (Hardcover) by Burton W., Jr. Folson

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shales

The Creature from Jekyll Island - A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin

America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard

Not good for Traitorist Jimmy Carter see Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer

For the "Tin Foil Hat Crowd" (OK, so we do read and enjoy these too)

...sometimes the far left and the far right meet here - and that usually scares me!

Hope of the Wicked - The Master Plan to Rule the World by Ted Flynn

The Secret History of the World - A Laid Down by teh Secret Societies by Mark Booth

The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marss

Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs

The True Story of the Bilderberg Groupby Daniel Estulin

The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World by John Perkins

Founding Fathers and Secret Societies - Freemasons, Illuminati, Rosicrucians, and Decoding the Great Seal by Robert Hieronimous

The Unseen Hand - An Introduction to the Conspiratorial View of History by Ralph A. Epperson

Other References

(Always fact check a liberals - especially when the call you a facist, a racist, a homophobe or any other pejoritive du jour).

Stat-Spotting: A Field Guide To Identifying Dubious Data by Joel Best

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Art of Deception by Nichola Capaldi

The World Almanac

The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America by William J. Bennett and John Cribb

The CIA World Factbook

Reality Check - The Unreporte Good News about America by Keegan and West.