10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor

by Benjamin Wiker

Overview

Following up his 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, author Benjamin Wiker brings you 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor. Offering a guide to some of the most important literary works of our time, Wiker turns his discerning eye from the great texts that have done so much damage to Western Civilization to the great texts that could help rebuild it. 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read features a range of works from classics such as Democracy in America and The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, to more "pop" classics like Sense and Sensibility and The Tempest. Through these works, Wiker reveals some of the most important lessons for our time as well as the true meaning of conservatism. Written with an educational purpose and witty tone, this is a must-read for conservatives, Republicans, and booklovers everywhere!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596986381
Publisher:	Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date:	05/25/2010
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	369
File size:	549 KB

About the Author

Benjamin Wiker, a husband and the father of seven children, holds a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Vanderbilt University. He has taught at Marquette University, St. Mary’s University, and Thomas Aquinas College and is now a professor of political science and the director of human life studies at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. His twelve books include 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor, The Reformation 500 Years Later: 12 Things You Need to Know, and Worshipping the State: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion.

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List of Ten Books

Politicsby Aristotle

The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

The Anti-Federalist

Democracy in America by Alexis Tocqueville

Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

The Science of Politics by Eric Voegelin

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

List of Four Not to Miss

The Bible

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Lord of the Rings by J.R. Tolkien

One Imposter

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand