The Conservative Bookshelf: Essential Works That Impact Today's Conservative ThinkersThe list here embraces everything from the Bible, Cicero's Republic and Tocqueville's Democracy in America to 21st century bestsellers by Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan. It includes fiction, poetry, and political thought side by side with the works of C. S. Lewis, Edmund Wilson, and Flannery O'Connor. Much more than a book for conservative thinkers, The Conservative Bookshelf gives insight into the mainsprings of western civilization by some of the ranking thinkers of all time. |
Contents
The Bible | 3 |
The Abolition of Man | 6 |
City of God | 10 |
Meditations | 16 |
POLITICS | 21 |
The Republic | 23 |
Reflections on the Revolution in France | 28 |
Considerations on France | 36 |
The Quest for Community A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom | 185 |
ECONOMICS | 191 |
Rerum Novarum | 193 |
The Servile State | 199 |
The Road to Serfdom | 204 |
The Social Crisis of Our Time | 211 |
The Cold War and the Income Tax A Protest | 217 |
THE PROPHETIC ARTIST | 223 |
The Federalist | 42 |
A Disquisition on Government | 53 |
Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays | 59 |
The Conservative Mind From Burke to Eliot | 67 |
Liberty Equality Fraternity | 73 |
The Liberal Mind | 80 |
Ideas Have Consequences | 86 |
Ill Take My Stand The South and the Agrarian Tradition | 94 |
Burden of Empire The Legacy of the RooseveltTruman Era | 101 |
Suicide of the West An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism | 109 |
Witness | 117 |
The Harvest of Sorrow Soviet Collectivization and the TerrorFamine | 124 |
SOCIETY | 131 |
Historical Consciousness or the Remembered Past | 133 |
Democracy in America | 138 |
The Managerial Revolution What Is Happening in the World | 145 |
The Education of Henry Adams An Autobiography | 149 |
The Memoirs of a Superfluous Man | 156 |
The Revolt of the Masses | 163 |
The Ordeal of Civility Freud Marx LeviStrauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity | 170 |
God and Man at Yale | 175 |
Single Issues Essays on the Crucial Social Questions | 180 |
The Waste Land | 225 |
The Sun Also Rises | 231 |
A Handful of Dust | 237 |
The Napoleon of Notting Hill | 243 |
Brave New World | 250 |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | 255 |
The Bear | 259 |
Desert Solitaire | 266 |
The Habit of Being The Letters of Flannery OConnor | 273 |
The Camp of the Saints | 279 |
THE PRESENT DAY | 285 |
Alien Nation Common Sense About Americas Immigration Disaster | 287 |
The Death of the West How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization | 293 |
From Union to Empire Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition | 299 |
Revolution from the Middle | 304 |
The Morality of Everyday Life A Chemical Alternative to the Liberal Tradition | 310 |
Revolt from the Heartland A Struggle for an Authentic Conservatism | 315 |
The Power of the Positive Woman | 320 |
Treason Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism | 325 |
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