 | The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values by Tammy Bruce
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.24 A former president of Los Angeles NOW comes to grown up realizations after seeing what liberal elites really value vs. what they say they value.
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 | White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (P.S.) by Shelby Steele
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.00 One fo the great books on race relations in America. Mr. Steele is old enough to remember segregation and can put the old days, the 1960s and today in perspective like no one else can.
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 | The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization by Diana West
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.67 A book of great insight into the citizen-as-slacker we see too often in modern America.
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 | The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds by Tammy Bruce
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.01 Tammy Bruce sizes up political correctness in a way only someone who previously had been in planning meetings with the "thought police" can.
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 | The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $3.50 Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. Here he describes the thinking of the left as both entitled and egoistic - and breeching no discussion of a different political view by what they consider their inferiors.
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 | Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies and the Special Interests That Divide America by Larry Elder
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Larry Elder is a black man who is long enoguh out of school to understand what works and doesn't work in the real world.
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 | The Ten Things You Can't Say In America, Revised Edition by Larry Elder
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Larry Elder once again tells it like it is.
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 | He Talk Like a White Boy by Joseph C. Phillips
Buy new: $20.20 / Used from: $1.04 A wonderful and wise writer - and a former member of the tv Huxable family on the Cosby Show. Highly recommended memoir of a Black Conservative.
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 | From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today by Jesse Lee Peterson
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $0.52 A true story of one Black man's rise from youthful assumptions to understanding how everything isn't a stereotype and how he was able to create his onw American Dream. Inspiring.
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 | Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It by Star Parker
Buy new: $11.68 / Used from: $8.79 One of the best conservative minds around is a black woman who got off of welfare and knows the dependency trap welfare sets for African-Americans - and others - from her firsthand experience.
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 | The BIG Black Lie: How I Learned The Truth About The Democrat Party by Kevin Jackson
Buy used from: $79.99 An author with a sense of history beyond the standardized view taught in high school - and a level headed view of life.
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 | Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.49 What would a list of women conservatives be without an Ann Coulter book? Her sharp barbs are suppoeted by the arguments that won her the top slot in her law school.
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 | What's So Great about Christianity by Dinesh D'Souza
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $8.90 An immigrant from India explains in detail the positive things he found in American Christianity.
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 | The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.51 A great book and great title. It is a mini-course on self-serving educational fads we all had to put up with in high school - or college (for those that went). Notice I don't assume anyone curious enough to read this list must have attended (or is a teenager who will attaend) college.
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 | One Nation, Two Cultures by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Buy used from: $0.14 This list won't be complete without mentioning the works of Gertrude Himmelfarb. This historian and political writer brings a depth to a discussion of modern "throwing out the baby with the bathwater" in an attempt to create a value free society that isn't very fulfilling.
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 | Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness by Daniel J. Flynn
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $1.10 Daniel Flynn spells out the basis of the animosity felt by the left for the U.S.'s very unique achievements. While he doesn't claim it was all good, he explains why the left believes it was all bad.
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 | The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Buy new: $16.24 / Used from: $0.49 Once again, Gertrude Himmelfarb uses her historian's mind to analyze what we've lost in the last century and what is worth regaining.
This historian and political writer brings a depth to a discussion of modern "throwing out the baby with the bathwater" in an attempt to create a value free society that isn't very fulfilling.
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 | Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
Buy used from: $10.88 Another detailed study of liberal icons and their feet - and feats - of clay.
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