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Below is Rick Wagner's recommended reading list for all Republicans. Click on the book title to be linked to it at Amazon.com:
The Road to Serfdom
by F. A. Hayek
A classic work in political philosophy which should be read by anyone who wants to understand the connection between government entitlement and its need to control the tools of commerce in order to accomplish its ends.
The True Believer : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer
No one can read this work by one of the most uniquely American thinkers of our time and see political movements the same, ever again. A very important book.
Capitalism and Freedom
by Milton Friedman
The most important economic work in the last 50 years. It shows the relationship between capitalism and the individual and how both can be an instrument for personal freedom.
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
A wonderful study of America written in the mid 1800s by a Frenchman who loved the American experiment! His observations of our early character and the challenges we will face are dead on for today.
Eat the Rich
by P. J. O'Rourke
One of the funniest books you will read (a bit risque in parts) that will define in a marvelously entertaining way the absurdity of socialism and the pitiful examples of where it has been implemented.
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
by Russell Kirk
Tracing the modern conservative movement in a way that will give anyone the intellectual background to form an individual political philosophy that will withstand the facile attacks of the uninformed.
God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom
by William F Buckley
The framing of the ideas of the modern conservative; an intellectual titan speaks.
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