 | Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley
Buy new: $37.58 / Used from: $30.00 Carroll Quigley became the darling of historical researchers when he published this epic tome, which summarizes (among other things) how the elites were able to gain such vast control over our capitalist society. Dense and wordy, but an invaluable resource.
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 | The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin
Buy used from: $19.50 Griffin is not a professional author and his lack of experience shows in the style and structure of this book. However, the rough edges don't detract from the impressive research here or the unequalled depiction of how the Federal Reserve was formed and why it was such a bad event in American history.
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 | Elite Deviance (8th Edition) by David R. Simon
Buy new: $73.40 / Used from: $3.17 Simon, a retired professor of sociology, graces us every year or two with an update to one of the best treatments of why our country's inability to punish "elite" crime makes things much worse than successfully prosecuting "street" crime.
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 | Barry & 'the Boys': The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History by Daniel Hopsicker
Buy used from: $80.98 Hopsicker writes like a beat reporter trying to be Mickey Spillane, but he actually does the street-level reporting (i.e., talking to witnesses and confidants) which is lacking in the books of so many armchair theorists. The title says it all.
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 | Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain by Gerald Colby
Buy used from: $15.07 This book was squashed by the Du Ponts when published, so little attention was ever paid to this book. However, very few historical tomes are as detailed, complete, and compelling as this story, which tracks the formation and distribution of the Du Pont wealth over almost two centuries.
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 | Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert
Buy new: $16.52 / Used from: $5.99 Despite its shortcomings (a "peak oil" warning and the naming of Dick Cheney as the mastermind of 9/11) this is still an awesome book. Ruppert cites hundreds of reliable sources to build a case for how the 9/11 attacks were arranged and carried out. Hardly a smoking gun, but head and shoulders above the best conspriacy books.
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 | Fire in the Minds of Men by James Billington
Buy new: $33.19 / Used from: $26.95 Billington thinks and writes on a level far above normal humans. The current Librarian of Congress is so well versed in the history of our country and the international context of its maturation, that you will never find a better (albeit dense) summary of the modern, revolutionary mindset.
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 | United States by Gore Vidal
Buy used from: $9.95 Read this for Vidal's political essays, most of which are unmatched in their depth, wit, and clarity. His essay on Reagan is the most poignant summary of the man I've ever read.
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| National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union by Antony C. Sutton
Buy used from: $5.00 Antony Sutton was an incredibly thorough researcher until he started down the 100% conspiracy path. This book summarizes a lot of his early research, which effectively proved that Western nations greatly supplied the Soviets with most of their technology--military and industrial--during the Cold War.
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| Dope, Inc.: The Book That Drove Henry Kissinger Crazy
Buy used from: $9.99 Use with a very large grain of salt. Lyndon LaRouche and his loyalists are famous for three things: incredibly detailed historical research; connecting the dots between events in fascinating ways; and wild conspiracy theories that could almost never be proven. Read this book for the first two reasons and formulate your own theories.
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