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Sutherland created this Suggested Reading list for those interested in reading books that influence Sutherland and its policy decisions. The list will expand with time but currently includes books on conservative thought, public policy, Sutherland-authored, and those just for fun.
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The Constitutional Convention
Author: James Madison
This historical report of James Madison's meticulous notes taken during the Constitutional Convention gives Americans today a unique perspective on America's founding. A careful study of Madison's notes reveals what the founders intended to do when drafting the U.S. Constitution and helps clear up many popular misconceptions about specific constitutional provisions. This book is a must read for any scholar or American citizen who wants to deepen their understanding of the principles and history that have made America what it is today.
The book contains many candid moments from the Constitutional Convention that reveal how the founders of this nation viewed the people in it. During the convention, John Rutledge of South Carolina said:
Sir, I have a better opinion of our Country. I think we shall never be without a sufficient number of wise and good men to undertake and execute well and faithfully the office (of President).
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The Conservative Mind
Author: Russell Kirk
This classic treatise on the influence of the teaching of Edmund Burke on the thinking of subsequent generations of conservatives deserves a prominent place on a conservative's bookshelf.
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke's elegant essay attacking the "armed doctrines" aggressively advanced in the French Revolution was prophetic in its predictions of the fruits of that revolution but also provides an important counter to the claims of radicals of his time (and today).
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The Federalist Papers
Author: Hamilton, Madison, and Jay
This compilation of articles authored during America’s founding helped coalesce support for the innovative and much debated U.S. Constitution.
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The Constitutional Convention
Author: James Madison
This historical report of James Madison's meticulous notes taken during the Constitutional Convention gives Americans today a unique perspective on America’s founding.
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Democracy in America
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
In this fascinating report of his travels through America in the early 1800's, Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker and historian, makes astute observations regarding America's flourishing democracy.
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The Law
Author: Frederic Bastiat
The Law is one of the most fundamental books on the proper role of government and is a must read for any conservative.
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A Humane Economy
Author: Wilhelm Ropke
This book explicates the balance between individual liberty and social community in the promotion of free markets and human happiness.
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Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Author: Philip Bess
Bess argues for traditional architecture and urbanism, their relationship to human welfare, and the kind of culture required to sustain traditional towns and city neighborhoods.
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Facing the Extreme
Author: Tzvetan Todorov
This historical analysis captures the conservative's philosophical impulse for promoting a moral life by showing that lives of compassion can be lived in even the worst of circumstances - Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet Gulag.
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The Essential Russell Kirk
Author: George A. Panichas
Seen in their completeness, this compendium of commentaries disclose Kirk's extraordinary breadth and thought as a social critic and an ethical teacher.
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Miles Gone By
Author: William F. Buckley
In his final book, Buckley moves from childhood to old age with an ease of memory and articulation which were hallmarks of his.
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The Myth of American Individualism
Author: Barry Alan Shain
Through an exploration of the writings of those foregone days, Shain shows that our founders thought as families and community as much as they did as individual Americans. For them, the “pursuit of happiness” was about home and hearth, not the individual pursuit of fame, fortune, or self-desires.
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Socialism
Author: Ludwig von Mises
In this work, Mises refutes the economics of socialism. He demonstrates that socialism in not only flawed systemically but also runs contrary to human nature itself.
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Witness
Author: Whittaker Chambers
Witness was one of the most influential books of the anti-Communist movement. It powerfully recounts Chambers’ involvement in exposing Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy in 1948.
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Ideas Have Consequences
Author: Richard Weaver
Weaver sets forth the idea that denying the existence of universals is causing the great ills of the West because ignoring universals leads directly to cultural deterioration and moral relativism.
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The Quest for Community
Author: Robert Nisbet
Nisbet writes that modern society encourages men to seek liberty by weakening and dissolving bonds of family, church, and neighborhood, but in the end, doing so leads to isolation and spiritual devastation and eventually to totalitarianism.
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Climate Confusion
Author: Roy Spencer
This telling book by former NASA scientist and global warming skeptic Roy Spencer explains the hysteria behind global warming and how it "leads to bad science, pandering politicians, and misguided policies that hurt the poor."
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Losing Ground
Author: Charles Murray
Murray's revealing analysis of the Great Society's welfare programs provides undeniable evidence of their failure to defeat poverty and suggests that the War on Poverty aggravated the plight of those it intended to assist.
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The Road to Serfdom
Author: F.A. Hayek
In this book, Hayek, prominent economist of the 20th century and rival of John Maynard Keynes, argues that collectivism leads logically and inevitable to tyranny.
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The New Agrarian Mind
Author: Allan C. Carlson
Carlson’s research into the lives of these thinkers reveals the depths of modern agrarian (not Jeffersonian) ideals and how those ideals relate to similar principles many conservatives seek adherence to today.
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Divided We Fall
Author: Bryce Christensen
Christensen argues that pragmatic government responses to pressing social needs are no substitute for deeper probing into the cultural causes of growing fissures, and warns that continued reliance on government to compensate for family failure will only make matters worse in the long run.
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Rise to Rebellion
Author: Jeff Shaara
This novel is the first in a two-part historical fiction series that tells the story of the American Revolution, mainly from the perspectives of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and British commanding-general Thomas Gage.
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Glorious Cause
Author: Jeff Shaara
This novel is the second and concluding part of a historical fiction series that tells the story of the American Revolution based upon the memoirs, written accounts, diaries, and letters of its participants.
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