 | Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches by Edmund Burke
Buy used from: $17.85 The granddad of conservative thought. Burke's thoughts on the affairs in the colonies, French Revolution, Indian sub-continent etc.
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 | Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $5.79 America circa 1830. How we've changed and yet stayed the same.
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 | The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States (Modern Library Classics) by Alexander Hamilton
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $4.25 Not bad for three dead, stupid white men. Hamilton, Jay and Madison give their argument for the constituition. Would the NY Times allow these papers today.
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 | The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Great Books in Philosophy) by Adam Smith
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.75 Dr. Phil on steroids....sorta....The Wealth of Nations is his better known book, but I like this one.
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 | The Constitution of Liberty by F. A. Hayek
Buy new: $21.60 / Used from: $9.27 Hayek's greatest work on economic freedom and personal liberty.
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 | The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek
Buy used from: $10.44 He's right and the appeasers of his time were wrong. Published at the end of WWII when everyone was falling in love with Socialism.
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 | The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.50 Kirk traces conservative thought from Edmund Burke to TS Eliot and points in between.
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 | The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
Buy used from: $9.94 Kirk traces roots of order from Athens to Rome to Jerusalem to London to Philadelphia.
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 | The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by George H. Nash
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $11.94 The players since 1920 They didn't always agree but the culmination was the election of Ronald Reagan.
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 | Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $10.28 Put your thinking cap on for this one.
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 | The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (ICS Series in Self-Governance) by Robert Nisbet
Buy used from: $9.59 What glue holds society together?
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 | Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline by Robert H. Bork
Buy used from: $0.01 Can we stop our moral decline. We need him on the court.
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 | The TEMPTING OF AMERICA by Robert H. Bork
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.75 Judges.......a new breed of dictators.
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 | Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.68 Friedman makes the case for personal freedom.
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 | The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Bombs away. If your sending your kids off to college, you might want to read this first.
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 | Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell
Buy new: $23.40 / Used from: $13.44 Great book on the discimination of knowledge throughout society and the gap between the decision makers and the people who have the knowledge
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 | Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $2.28 I'll be cautious here. Ah, forget it.
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 | Conquests And Cultures: An International History by Thomas Sowell
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $2.24 A great book on the conquests of several cultures and how the conquered assimilated into a new culture and how they affected the conquerers.
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 | Migrations And Cultures: A World View by Thomas Sowell
Buy new: $21.15 / Used from: $2.75 What a great book.......a little history, a little sociology. Some of his observations can be misinterpreted as sterotypes by thoses who want to see it..
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 | The Vision of the Anointed Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $1.40 A very well written book on the arrogant "chosen ones" in our society who somehow think they know what's best for all us dumb "little folks".
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 | A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
Buy used from: $1.70 The human race never has and never will be perfect. The chosen ones are back to tell us they can create a perfect society.
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 | The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell
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 | A History of the American People by Paul M. Johnson
Buy new: $19.60 / Used from: $5.00 God help us if all our kids are exposed to is Howard Zinn.
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 | Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Perennial Classics) by Paul M. Johnson
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $7.99 Great account of a turbulent 80 years.
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 | I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Library of Southern Civilization)
Buy used from: $6.35 A great account of the southern agrarian position circa 1930. Very skeptical of indutrialization and all it entails. All they argued for was the preservation of the southern tradition. Funny thing is that they argued for many of the same things that the modern 'tree huggers' argue for.....just from a different perspective.
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