Recommended Conservative Reading to prepare for elections and commemorate the Fall of the Berlin Wall

A timely post about from www.yaf.org about books to begin reading in order to commemorate the Fall of the Berlin Wall, communism's symbol, on November 9, Freedom Day. This follows this post about a black person mocking white people, as in the movie Dear White People.  This follows this post about the midterm election.
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Recommended Conservative 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

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

General Recommended Reading

Biographies

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• A Personal Odyssey  by Thomas Sowell
• Creating Equal: My Fight Against Racial Preferences by Ward Connerly
• Miles Gone By by William F. Buckley
• Nofziger by Lyn Nofziger
• Radical Son by David Horowitz **
• The Last Lion by William Manchester
• The Prince of Darkness by Robert Novak
• Two Lucky People by Milton and Rose Friedman

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Communism

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• Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism by Dr. Paul Kengor **
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer
• Suicide of the West by James Burnham
• The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Witness by Whittaker Chambers

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Conservatism

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• Conservative Victory by Sean Hannity
• Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement by Nicole Hoplin and Ron Robinson **
• Great American Conservative Women: A Collection of Speeches by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
• In Defense of Freedom by Frank S. Meyer
• Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement by Wynton Hall **
• Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D'Souza **
• Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Pinheads and Patriots by Bill O'Reilly
• Right Words: Great Speeches that Shaped History by Wynton Hall *
• See, I Told You So by Rush Limbaugh
• The American Conservative Movement: The Philosophical Founders by Senator John P. East
• The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by Dr. George Nash
• The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk
• The Portable Conservative Reader by Russell Kirk
• The Way Things Ought To Be by Rush Limbaugh
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by George Nash
• The City on a Hill by Michael Reagan **
• Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism by Al Regnery
• Why We Whisper: Restoring our Right to Say It's Wrong by Senator Jim DeMint

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Culture

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• America's Real War by Rabbi Daniel Lapin **
• Chinese Girl in the Ghetto by Ying Ma *
• Christianity and Culture by T.S. Eliot
• Common Sense by Glenn Beck
• Death of the West by Patrick Buchanan **
• Hollywood vs America by Michael Medved **
• It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good by Rick Santorum **
• Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats by Star Parker **
• The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in An Age of Techno-Affluence by Dinesh D'Souza **
• What's So Great About America by Dinesh D'Souza **

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Economics

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• A History of Money and Banking in the United States by Murray Rothbard
• America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard
• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
• Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
• Crapitalism by Jason Mattera
• Economics In One Lesson  by Henry Hazlitt
• How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo
• Human Action  by Ludwig von Mises
• In Defense of Global Capitalism  by Johan Norberg
• Liberty vs. the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays by Dr. Walter Williams **
• Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard
• The End of Prosperity by Steve Moore
• The Power of Economic Thinking  by Mark Skousen
• The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
• The Wealth of Nations  by Adam Smith
• Two Lucky People by Milton and Rose Friedman

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Education

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• God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley
• Illiberal Education: Political Correctness and the College Experience by Dinesh D'Souza
• Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
• Professors by David Horowitz
• The Shadow University by Alan Kors and Harvey Silvergate
• The Diversity Myth by David Sacks and Peter Thiel
• The Academy in Crisis edited by John Somme

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Environment / Global Warming

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• Climate Confusion by Roy Spencer
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and the Environment by Chris Horner** (We recommend any books from the Politically Incorrect Guide series)
• The Really Inconvenient Truths by Iain Murray
• The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg
• Unstoppable Global Warming by Fred Singer and Dennis Avery

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Feminism

• Feminist Fantasies by Phyllis Schlafly **
• Great American Conservative Women: A Collection of Speeches by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
• The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers **
• Who Stole Feminism by Christina Hoff Sommers **

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Foundation Speakers

• Death of the West by Patrick Buchanan **
• Creating Equal  by Ward Connerly **
• Fighting Back by Deena Burnett **
• Godless by Ann Coulter **
• Hating Whitey by David Horowitz **
• Hollywood vs America by Michael Medved **
• Illiberal Education by Dinesh D'Souza **
• Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity by John Stossel **
• Never Again by Attorney General John Ashcroft **
• Saddam's Secrets by Iraqi General Georges Sada **
• Showdown  by Larry Elder **
• Slander by Ann Coulter **
• Ten Things You Can't Say in America  by Larry Elder
• The Myth of the Robber Barons  by Burton W. Folsom, Jr. **
• Uncivil Wars by David Horowitz **
• What's So Great About America by Dinesh D'Souza **
• White Ghetto by Star Parker **

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Gun Rights

• God, Guns, and Rock ‘N' Roll by Ted Nugent
• Guns Save Lives by Robert Waters
• More Guns, Less Crime  by John R. Lott Jr.
• That Every Man Be Armed by Stephen Halbrook
• The Best Defense by Robert Waters
• The Bias Against Guns  by John R. Lott Jr.

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History (U.S.)

• 48 Liberal Lies (That You Probably Learned in School) by Dr. Larry Schweikart **
• A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
• A Patriot's History of the United States by Dr. Larry Schweikart ** and Allen
• Constitution of the United States
• Congress and the American Tradition by James Burnham
• Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs
• Declaration of Independence
• Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
• New Deal or Raw Deal by Dr. Burt Folsom, Jr. **
• Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
• The Roosevelt Myth  by John T. Flynn
• The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton W. Folsom, Jr. **
• The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, Jay

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History (World)

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

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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

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Liberalism

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

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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

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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 **

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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

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Black List by Brad Thor
• Blowback by Brad Thor
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Foreign Influence by Brad Thor
• Full Black by Brad Thor
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Path of the Assassin by Brad Thor
• Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard
• State of the Union by Brad Thor
• Takedown by Brad Thor
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• The Fountainhead  by Ayn Rand
• The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
• The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor
• The First Commandment by Brad Thor
• The Last Patriot by Brad Thor
• The Apostle by Brad Thor
• The Athena Project by Brad Thor

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Race

• 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 
• He Talk Like a White Boy by Joseph Phillips **

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Ronald Reagan

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