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10 books every conservative must read, plus four not to miss and one imposter / Benjamin Wiker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, 2010.Description: 369 pISBN:
  • 9781596986381 (electronic bk.)
  • 1596986387 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: 10 books every conservative must read, plus four not to miss and one imposter.DDC classification:
  • 011.6
LOC classification:
  • JA 71 W663b 2010
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Partial contents:
Why these books and not -- The politics / Aristotle -- Orthodoxy / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- The new science of politics / Eric Voegelin -- The abolition of man / C.S. Lewis -- Reflections on the Revolution in France / Edmund Burke -- Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Federalist papers / Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay -- The anti-federalists -- The servile state / Hilaire Belloc -- The road to serfdom / Friedrich August von Hayek -- The tempest / William Shakespeare -- Sense and sensibility / Jane Austen -- The lord of the rings / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Jerusalem Bible -- Atlas shrugged / Ayn Rand.
Summary: "Never has America's understanding of herself been more at risk than it is now. But if conservatives are to restore America, they need first to rearm themselves with the wisdom of true conservatism--and stepping up to the plate to offer just that is Dr. Benjamin Wiker. Readers of his rollicking 10 Books That Screwed up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help demanded this sequel, and now you have it -- ten books that could actually make the world better, plus four bonus books not to miss, and a warning about one celebrated book that has unfortunately led some conservatives astray"--Cover, p. 2.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why these books and not -- The politics / Aristotle -- Orthodoxy / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- The new science of politics / Eric Voegelin -- The abolition of man / C.S. Lewis -- Reflections on the Revolution in France / Edmund Burke -- Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Federalist papers / Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay -- The anti-federalists -- The servile state / Hilaire Belloc -- The road to serfdom / Friedrich August von Hayek -- The tempest / William Shakespeare -- Sense and sensibility / Jane Austen -- The lord of the rings / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Jerusalem Bible -- Atlas shrugged / Ayn Rand.

"Never has America's understanding of herself been more at risk than it is now. But if conservatives are to restore America, they need first to rearm themselves with the wisdom of true conservatism--and stepping up to the plate to offer just that is Dr. Benjamin Wiker. Readers of his rollicking 10 Books That Screwed up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help demanded this sequel, and now you have it -- ten books that could actually make the world better, plus four bonus books not to miss, and a warning about one celebrated book that has unfortunately led some conservatives astray"--Cover, p. 2.

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