 | The Matrix
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $2.49 Ah, yes, the origin of the phrase "take the red pill" -- it's when you choose to find out the truth rather than continue to live in the fantasy world.
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 | They Live
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.78 Kind of satirical, but dark, this is John Carpenter at his finest. You see, when you put on these special sunglasses, you see the world as it really is...
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 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $4.42 The book that made the concept of "paradigms" well-known. It also explains how paradigm shifts literally change the way you perceivee reality.
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 | The Underground History of American Education: A School Teacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
Buy new: $29.71 / Used from: $23.79 What if America's schools aren't failing, but are performing their REAL functions just as intended? This and the next three books are my picks for the most important ones on this list.
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 | The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
Buy used from: $20.99 What the Federal Reserve really is, what it really does, and where it really came from. If you don't already know these things, this book will change your entire worldview.
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 | Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes by Jacques Ellul
Buy new: $11.07 / Used from: $3.95 Christian anarchist socialogist Jacques Ellul delves deep into propaganda -- what it is, how it works. You will never look at the world around you the same way after reading this.
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 | Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Buy new: $17.96 / Used from: $15.00 Will totally reshape the way you think about government in general and democracy in particular.
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 | American Progressivism: A Reader
Buy new: $21.56 / Used from: $19.46 In their own words, find out what the progressives were REALLY all about.
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 | The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas DiLorenzo
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.98 The usual Lincoln story you're told is pure propaganda. DiLorenzo shows how in painstaking detail.
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 | Triumph of Conservatism by Gabriel Kolko
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $2.27 All those government regulations that are sold as "protecting the consumer" are actually intended to cartellize industries, stifle competition, and protect established interests.
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 | Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley
Buy new: $37.58 / Used from: $32.88 Find out who really runs the world.
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 | Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Charles Townshend
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $2.94 This short little book can change how you look at the phenomenon of terrorism -- and government responses to it.
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 | The State by Franz Oppenheimer
Buy new: $15.59 / Used from: $9.98 |
 | No Treason The Constitution of no Authority by Lysander Spooner
Buy new: $10.75 / Used from: $18.09 |
 | This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America by Ryan Grim
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.68 |
 | The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (50th Anniversary Edition) by William Appleman Williams
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $9.50 |
 | The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.23 |
 | Man, Economy, and State by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy used from: $99.62 Anything by Rothbard is brilliant.
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 | The Politics Of Obedience The Discourse Of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $3.99 |
 | Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, New Edition by Benedict Anderson
Buy new: $11.41 / Used from: $9.30 |
 | The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.93 |
 | The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (New Edition) by Bryan Caplan
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.04 |
 | Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (A Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy Book) by Robert Higgs
Buy new: $43.01 / Used from: $16.00 |
 | The Cult of the Presidency, Updated: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power by Gene Healy
Buy new: $12.13 / Used from: $2.69 |
 | Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America by Edmund S. Morgan
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $3.10 |
 | The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Buy used from: $7.44 |
 | The Law by Frederic Bastiat
Buy new: $7.94 / Used from: $26.02 |
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