Conservative Reading

Recommended Reading

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This list of books is only a sampling of the best books available to help you balance your education with conservative ideas. The titles listed represent a wide range of topics and difficulty levels, but all are worth reading.

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High School Recommended Reading

The Bible
The Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Great American Conservative Women: A Collection of Speeches compiled by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
The Myth of the Robber Barrons by Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, Jay
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D'Souza
Ronald Reagan by Libby Highes
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck

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Recommended Conservative Reading

*Author is Foundation Alumni
**Author is available through Young America’s Foundation’s Campus Lecture Program

Biographies

A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell
Creating Equal: My Fight Against Racial Preferences by Ward Connerly**
Miles Gone By by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Nofziger by Lyn Nofziger
Radical Son by David Horowitz**
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Communism

Suicide of the West by James Burnham
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
The Molding of Communists by Frank S. Meyer
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Conservatism

Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D'Souza**
The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk
The March of Freedom edited by Dr. Edwin Feulner
Funding Fathers by Nicole Hoplin and Ron Robinson**
In Defense of Freedom by Frank S. Meyer
Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism by Al Regnery
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by Dr. George Nash
The City on a Hill by Michael Reagan**
Why We Whisper: Restoring our Right to say It’s Wrong by Senator Jim DeMint and J. David Woodward
American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century by Tony Blankley

Culture

30 Ways in 30 Days to Save Your Family
by Rebecca Hagelin
Death of the West by Patrick Buchanan**
The Virtue of Prosperity by Dinesh D'Souza**
What's So Great About America by Dinesh D'Souza**
Christianity and Culture by T.S. Eliot
America's Real War by Rabbi Daniel Lapin**
Hollywood vs. America by Michael Medved**
Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats by Star Parker**
The Enemy at Home by Dinesh D’Souza**

Economics

Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
Two Lucky People by Milton and Rose Friedman
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Education

God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Illiberal Education by Dinesh D'Souza**
Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
Professors by David Horowitz**
The Shadow University by Alan Kors** and Harvey Silvergate

Environment/Global Warming

Free Market Environmentalism by Terry Anderson and Donald Leal
Unstoppable Global Warming by Fred Singer and Dennis Avery
The Really Inconvenient Truths by Iain Murray
Climate Confusion by Roy Spencer
The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg

Feminism

Great American Conservative Women edited by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
Feminist Fantasies by Phyllis Schlafly**
The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers**
Who Stole Feminism? by Christina Hoff Sommers**

Gun Rights

That Every Man Be Armed by Stephen Halbrook
God, Guns, and Rock 'N' Roll by Ted Nugent**
The Best Defense by Robert Waters
Guns Save Lives by Robert Waters

General History

Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
New Deal or Raw Deal by Dr. Burt Folsom**
Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
How Capitalism Saved America by Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo
A Patriot’s History of the United States by Larry Schweikart and Michael Patrick Allen
Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

World History

Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism by Joshua Muravchik
The Last Lion by William Manchester
Greatness: Reagan, Churchill and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders by Steven Hayward*
The Triumph of Liberty by Jim Powell
The President, The Pope, and The Prime Minister by John O’Sullivan

Immigration

Invasion by Michelle Malkin**
Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders by Jim Gilchrist and Jerome R. Corsi
In Mortal Danger by Rep. Tom Tancredo*
Whatever it Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security and the War on Terror by J.D. Hayworth

Liberalism

Getting it Right by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Up from Liberalism by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert Bork
Do As I Do, Not As I Say by Peter Schweizer**
Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America by Ann Coulter**
Treason by Ann Coulter**
Godless by Ann Coulter**
Why the Left Hates America by Daniel J. Flynn**
Hating Whitey by David Horowitz**

Media

Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann Coulter**
Bias by Bernard Goldberg
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media by Bernard Goldberg
South Park Conservatives by Brian Anderson

Militant Islam

Hatred's Kingdom by Dore Gold
Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes
The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel
Islam Unveiled by Robert Spencer**
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam by Robert Spencer**
Al Qaeda’s Armies by Jonathan Schanzer**

National Security and Military

Breakdown by Bill Gertz
Making the Corps by Thomas Ricks
Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
Cloak and Gown by Robin Winks
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan
AWOL by Frank Schaeffer and Kathy Roth-Douquet
Dereliction of Duty by H.R. McMaster
American Military History: Volumes 1 & 2 by Richard Stewart
America’s Victories: Why the U.S. Wins Wars and Will Win the War on Terror by Larry Schweikart

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Novels

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck

Racism

The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza**
Creating Equal: My Fight Against Racial Preferences by Ward Connerly**
Uncivil Wars by David Horowitz**
Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell

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Ronald Reagan Legacy

Ronald Reagan: How An Ordinary Man Became An Extraordinary Leader by Dinesh D'Souza**
A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan by Michael K. Deaver
Ronald Reagan and His Ranch, The Western White House by Peter Hannaford
The Age of Reagan by Steven F. Hayward*
With Reagan: The Inside Story by Edwin Meese III**
When Character Was King by Peggy Noonan
How Ronald Reagan Changed my Life by Peter Robinson**
I Love You, Ronnie by Nancy D. Reagan
Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer**
The Greatest Communicator by Dick Wirthlin and Wynton Hall**

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