 | The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 (Dover Thrift Editions)
Buy new: $2.00 / Used from: $0.01 This book has the text of the Declaration of Independence, the U S Constitution, and spechs from Patrick Henry, Washington, and Lincoln.
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 | The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) by Alexander Hamilton
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $3.60 This book tells you how the government is supposed to run.
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 | Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics) by Thomas Paine
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $3.03 Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
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 | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions) by Benjamin Franklin
Buy new: $2.50 / Used from: $0.01 Get to know our genius.
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 | The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Philosophical Classics) by Adam Smith
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $6.69 The moral and ethical foundation of free enterprise.
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 | The Wealth of Nations: Representative Selections (Dover Value Editions) by Adam Smith
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.81 This book wasahem!coincidentally published in 1776. It explains that free enterprise is about free people living their dreams.
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 | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.45 Along with Common Sense, Wealth of Nations, and The Declaration of Independence, this book was published in 1776. They Founding Fathers wanted to prevent a decline in their new republic.
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 | The Law by Frederick Bastiat
Buy new: $6.00 / Used from: $4.05 Not an American, but like Locke, he should have been. This book explains why we need to have life, liberty, and property in order to be free. Almost a second Declaration of Independence.
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 | Democracy in America (Penguin Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $5.90 This is America from a foreigners point of view. Quite insightful.
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 | The Portable Enlightenment Reader (The Viking Portable Library)
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $6.99 Learn about the matrix in wich America was born.
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 | Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.50 The philosophy of the Declaration of Independence in greater detail.
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 | Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.01 Jacksonian American Transcendentalism, pt. 1
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 | Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: $1.50 / Used from: $0.01 Jacksonian American Transcendentalism, pt. 2
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 | Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.01 Jacksonian American Transcendentalism, pt.3
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 | Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons (Thrift Edition) by Jonathan Edwards
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.99 This is the harsh Puritan backbone of America. I dont agree with these sermons, but place them here for historical purposes.
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