 | Libertarianism in One Lesson: Why Libertarianism Is the Best Hope for America's Future
Buy used from: $12.99 In 1984, I had the distinct honor and privilege of reading the manuscript copy of the first edition of this brilliantly executed work. In each subsequent edition, the author has finely crafted and honed this masterwork into the most concise, understandable work of its kind. This brief book is the best place to begin your exploration of the ideas of Libertarianism.
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 | Libertarianism: A Primer by David Boaz
Buy new: $19.75 / Used from: $8.94 Authoritative, comprehensive, and excellently organized, David Boaz's Libertarianism: A Primer is a pleasure to read and provides an exceptional educational experience in the philosophy of freedom.
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 | The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $11.49 Ron Paul's new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, is already rising to the top of the charts. The Ron Paul Revolution among millions of dedicated Americans from every age group, socioeconomic, ethnocultural background is a true phenomenon. Ron Paul has an exceptional ability to discuss complex econonmic and political issues in an easy to understand presentation.
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 | The Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane
A lyrical and inspirational tribute to the idea of freedom which will liberate mankind.
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 | Liberty A Path to its Recovery by F.A. Harper
Buy used from: $3.75 Another neglected classic which, like Rose Wilder Lane's The Discovery of Freedom, has an almost poetic quality by its graceful yet powerful prose.
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 | An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard by Justin Raimondo
Buy new: $27.05 / Used from: $17.99 Magnificent compelling biography of our greatest scholar of liberty -- the legendary Murray N. Rothbard -- who spoke truth to power and inspired generations by his courage and humanity
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 | For a New Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $26.80 As powerful as first written in 1973, Rothbard's stirring manifesto still radiates his unyielding optimism for humanity's ultimate triumph over tyranny, vanquishing all forms of statism and oppression. This beautiful new edition is terrific.
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 | The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to Milton Friedman by David Boaz
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $8.04 This excellent anthology contains the collected wisdom of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, Lord Acton, Frederic Bastiat, H. L. Mencken, Milton Friedman, Tom Paine, Murray N. Rothbard, Richard Cobden, Frederick Douglass, Richard Overton, Robert Nozick,Mary Wollstonecraft, Ludwig von Mises, Lysander Spooner, Herbert Spenser, Friedrich A. Hayek, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand.
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 | The Triumph of Liberty: A 2,000 Year History Told Through the Lives of Freedom's Greatest Champions by James Powell
Buy used from: $0.93 Thomas Jefferson, Ayn Rand, Ludwig van Beethoven, Murray N. Rothbard, Rose Wilder Lane, Maria Montessori, Francois Rabelais, Thomas Szasz, Mark Twain, Lord Acton, and many more
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| The Law and Cliches of Socialism by Frederic Bastiat
What a terrific idea! Frederic Bastiat's timeless classic, The Law, coupled with Cliches of Socialism, which demolishes the flawed, fallacious arguments proponents of centralized government power have put forth to coerce and control us. Excellent for beginners and those seeking a refresher course in logic and liberty.
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| Our enemy, the state: Including "On doing the right thing" by Albert Jay Nock
Buy used from: $23.00 Nowhere can the reader find a clearer or more forceful portrayal of the libertarian position than in this book" -- Murray N. Rothbard
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 | The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $19.49 Rothbard's outstanding defense of inalienable natural rights, individual liberty, private property, and capitalism.
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| The Decline of American Liberalism by Arthur A. Ekirch
Buy used from: $9.93 Excellent historical overview of the reasons for the decline of classical liberalism in the United States. This is a must-read classic; locate a good used copy and enjoy!
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 | A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt by John Denson
The great libertarian Randolph Bourne observed that "war is the health of the state." Find out why by reading this insightful book.
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| Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N Rothbard
Without question, this is the best primer on Establishment Studies or Power Elite Analysis -- available on-line @ LewRockwell.com, click "Rothbard File
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 | The Case Against the Fed by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $15.13 The Federal Reserve -- found guilty as charged.
Abolish the Fed!
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 | A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $999.00 Absolutely fascinating history of the internecine, behind-the-scenes warfare between elite financial blocs such as the House of Morgan and the Rockefellers for dominance and control of America. See my Amazon.com ***** review.
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 | A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship by Ron Paul
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.28 Excellent collection of Congressman Ron Paul's speeches on foreign policy from the floor of the House of Representatives. Unlike the other 2008 presidential candidates, Paul is on-the-record for decades as consistent and principled in his pro-peace, non-interventionist views.
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 | Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (Background: Essential Texts for the Conservative Mind) by Justin Raimondo
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $12.72 Before it was destroyed in the early 1950s by CIA phony "Conservatives," there was the heroic Old Right coalition of men and women opposed to the corporate welfare-warfare state of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S Truman. An excellent companion to Rothbard's The Betrayal of the American Right below.
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 | The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $24.00 / Used from: $19.94 The definitive examination of how the CIA's phony "Conservative Movement" arose and deluded millions in the name of national security and state power. See my Amazon.com ***** review.
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 | Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism by Bill Kauffman
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.86 For those who have been neoconned into believing that conservatism means unquestioned support for the warfare state, Ain't My America is the perfect way to show that real conservatives defend peace and liberty." -- Ron Paul
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 | Ex America: The 50th Anniversary of the People's Pottage by Garet Garrett
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $15.76 Garet Garrett's powerful The People's Pottage has never been more timely reading.
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 | Cato's Letters or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects : Four Volumes in Two by JOHN TRENCHARD
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $50.60 Cato's Letters was the most important and decisive influence upon America's Founders.
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 | The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
Buy new: $21.60 / Used from: $10.56 Bailyn's seminal Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is the starting point to understanding the central theme of American political thought -- the struggle of Liberty versus Power. In particular, it demonstrates the crucial role Cato's Letters played in shaping the minds of our Founders in fomenting our American Revolution.
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 | Conceived in Liberty (4 Volume Set) by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $100.00 / Used from: $17.95 Rothbard's majestic four volume tribute to our Founders and our heroic Libertarian saga of the American Revolution.
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 | Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $11.55 The essence and vitality of Rothbard's impeccable scholarship and razor-like wit are captured in this wonderful collection.
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 | The Irrepressible Rothbard : The Rothbard-Rockwell Report Essays of Murray N. Rothbard by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $21.94 Beside his 25 fascinating books on history, economics, and political theory -- Murray Rothbard was a great polemicist and social commentator. Here's some of his outrageous best.
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 | Education: Free & Compulsory by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $3.98 Pioneer historical revisionism at its best, Rothbard lays bare the sordid legacy of indoctrination and regimentation of compulsory government schooling.
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 | The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Botie
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $13.30 Before MLK, Gandhi, Tolstoy, or Thoreau, there was the brilliant Etienne de La Boetie, who explored civil disobedience, resistance to tyranny, and the brutal exploitative nature of the state.
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| The Lysander Spooner Reader by George H. Smith
Buy used from: $20.00 Lysander Spooner is without parallel. His "No Treason" series in this volume is the most incisive indictment of the base criminality of the American government ever written.
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| The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories
Buy new: $31.27 / Used from: $20.00 The horrors and savagery of war and its apologists exposed.
One of the most important books published in the past 30 years.
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 | Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.50 After reading Overthrow, no American -- not even President Bush -- should any longer wonder 'why they hate us.' Overthrow is a narrative of all the times we've overthrown a foreign government in order to put in power puppets that are obedient to us." -- Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis
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 | Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market (Scholars Edition) by Murray N. Rothbard
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $42.49 Finally Man, Economy, and State is complete as Rothbard originally drafted it, including the chapters later published separately as Power and Market. The irrefutable case, in pristine logic and analysis, against any form of government intervention in the economy. One of the most important books of the 20th Century.
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 | An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (2 Vol. Set) by Murray Rothbard
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $47.50 The product of a lifetime of dedicated scholarship, this is Rothbard's magnum opus. Volume one is a breathtaking journey through time, analyzing how culture, religion, and politics have impacted upon economic thought. Volume two contains the most devastating refutation and trenchant analysis of Karl Marx and his destructive, apocalyptic theory of Communism.
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| Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, creator, hero by Murray Newton Rothbard
Buy used from: $11.99 Murray Rothbard's moving tribute to his mentor, Ludwig von Mises.
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 | Human Action Scholars Edition by Ludwig Von Mises
Buy new: $65.00 / Used from: $54.43 Ludwig von Mises was the greatest economist the world has produced. This is his masterpiece.
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 | Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
Buy new: $50.00 / Used from: $45.95 An encyclopedic and enticing new biography of the world's greatest economist, Ludwig von Mises, the Last Knight of Liberalism.
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 | The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR by Jules Archer
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.71 Excellent inexpensive paperback edition of the Jules Archer classic. Its terrific to have this wonderful book back in print which tells how General Smedley Darlington Butler saved our Republic from a fascist plot by plutocratic militarists in the early 1930s.
Archer is featured in The History Channel documentary, The Plot To Overthrow FDR, a concise summation of this exceptional book.
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 | Reassessing the Presidency : The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $14.96 A bold and important study of the unfolding usurpation and seizure of authority by the Executive Branch in our corporate welfare-warfare regime.
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| Radical libertarianism;: A right wing alternative by Jerome Tuccille
Buy used from: $7.00 And lastly, this is the amazing little book which started it all for me, Jerome Tuccille's Radical Libertarianism: A Right Wing Alternative.
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