Great Books to Read; If you can find them

Between campaigning for Ron Paul, and during those long flights, those long nights, or those long silly democratic debates.... you may wish to start a good book.

About 10 years ago by chance at the airport I heard about this gay man who was open about his aids and his book called: Ain't Nobody's Business If You do, by Peter McWilliams struck me as "Wow! Now thats out there!". But it was recommended by John Stossel and even Sting, so I thought, what the heck and bought it. Flying from Phoenix to Tampa I found it was totally convincing. I gained a whole new insight into the legalization of drugs issue.

So, let me do you a favor too by being your friendly John Stossel and Sting and recommending a bunch of books which might interest you as a young Patriot just learning about libertarianism for the first time. Maybe you will be stuck at an airport and be glad you had an interesting book or two. Here are just a few from my bookcase that may interest you, if you can find them. (if you cannot, let me know & I will see what I can do)

I do not know 100%, but I am sure at one point, Dr. Paul read these books. We have all heard him mention; Blowback, by Chalmers Johnson and many of us have read by now the classic work by the former CIA agent assigned to Bin Laden, Imperial Hubris, by Michael Schuer...... but I can bet these are on his bookshelf too:

1) Libertarianism in One Lesson, by David Bergland. Many of you young Patriots know that Ron Paul ran for president in 1988 on the Libertarian ticket. But do you know who ran in 1984? David Bergland. David has a unique talent to explaining how libertarian principles apply to real world problems. He had a degree in English form UCLA and JD from USC.
2) Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Haziltt. This best seller for years inspired many people to free themselves from conventional economic bromides. Its the shortest and surest way to understand economic principles, without all the math.
3) Terrorism and Tyranny, by James Bovard. Excellent factual reporting. When you are done reading a Bovard book, you shake your head left and right for days. I met a friend who I had not seen in months, he was shaking his head constantly, repeating facts upon facts upon facts. I said, "Bovard's latest book?" and he just nodded "yes". He puts it all together so well you seriously think about becoming a modern day V.
4) The Way to Wealth, by Benjamin Franklin. A small and very clever book, just 30 pages.
5) The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt. For many of us, Ludwig Von Mises needs some explaining. Mr. Hazlitt is an excellent writer and has taught us all many many things, from philosophy, history to economics, we owe him a very big debt.
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Now I do not know if Ron Paul has these books below, so I wish someone would give them to him. He may understand the internet phenomenon better. He may come to distrust the INS as much, if not more, than the IRS. He may be a little more agile a speaker too.
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6) The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki. I give it 5 stars.
7) The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration, by Jacob Hornberger. You can find Jacob's essays over at www.fff.org
8) Ron Paul has been a speaker throughout the years here:
http://www.fff.org/confer...
9) The Quick & Easy Way to Effective Speaking, Dale Carnegie
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Now these books I have no idea if Ron Paul read them or not. I list them here because well, they mean something to me. Each in its own way was an intellectual journey of understanding. These are works of fiction, but in fiction we can be told deep truths and see eternal principles at work.
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10) 1984, by George Orwell. Better than the movie kids...read it.
11) Brave New World, & Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley.
12) Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
13) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K Dick
14) The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
15) We the Living, by Ayn Rand
16) Uncle Toms Cabin, by
17) Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
18) A Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlen
19) Tai-Pan, by James Clavell --the movie is GREAT !!!
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Now these books affected me at the right time in the right way
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20) Restoring the American Dream, by Robert Ringer
21) WInning Through Intimidation, by Robert Ringer
22) Looking Out for Number One, by Robert Ringer
23) Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer by LK Samuels and more
24) The Vision of the Anointed, by Thomas Sowell
25) The Libertarian Manifesto, by Murray Rothbard
26) Free To Choose, by Milton Friedman
27) Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
28) Capitalism the Unknown Ideal, by Ayn Rand
29) For a New Intellectual, by Ayn Rand
30) The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand, by Den Uyl & Rasmussen
31) Individual Rights Reconsidered, by Tibor Machan
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Now these last set of books you might THINK that it has nothing to do with Liberty and achieving a free society, but I beg to differ. Science is getting very close to understanding the Nature of Man, and in so doing, science will be able to say something profound on the Political Economy of Man. As you recall, the Founders where scientists, social historians who drew lessons from Rome and England and the wars of Europe and Greece. Today's science is adding to that dialogue, even if modern day libertarians are not listening but instead reading Milton Friedman's Free To Choose and Murray Rothbards Libertarian Manifesto....both excellent books, but the SCIENCE of Man's Political Economy did not stop with the death of these two Greats.
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32) The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
33) The Darwinian Left, by Peter Singer (Scary, the left gives up Marx for Darwin, yet a Darwinian Left is not in the science cards)
34) African Genesis, by Robert Ardrey (Classic vision, excellent writing)
35) The Territorial Imparative, by Robert Ardrey (property rights in animal societies)
36) Mother Nature, by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (Brilliant book!)
37) The Blank Slate: Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker (Brilliant book, sciences are touching man's Political Economy and this will affect the debate in future years to come)
38) The Runaway Brain, Christopher Wills
39) The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker
40) How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker
41) Consilience, by Edward O Wilson
42) The Moral Animal: The new science of evolutionary psychology, by Robet Wright
43) Atheism, the Case Against God, by George Smith (A Classic original work that lasts and lasts throughout the years)
44) The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, by David M. Buss
45) Moral Minds: How Nature Designed our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong, by Marc D. Hauser
46) The Evolution of Cooperation, by Robert Axelrod
47) The Global Brain, by Howard Bloom
48) New Rules for the New Economy, by Kevin Kelly (wired mag)
49) The Expression of the Emotions in Man & Animals, Charles Darwin (the CLASSIC work that put his theory out there)
50) Nature via Nurture, by Matt Ridley
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And finally there is this book, which I think is in the right direction for Libertarian Scholarship... When science meets libertarian theory, what remains?
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Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, by Paul H. Rubin

Treg / Tempe, AZ