[WOSG]

Great list. I especially like the inclusion of Grant's autobiography, even though I've read only portions of it. Reading good biographies is one of the best ways to enjoy reading while gainin insight into character and our history. It's the aerobics of the mind!

There is a list of books that Morton Blackwell suggests every conservative should read:

http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/04RESOURCES/RTLlist.htm

Heritage Conservative Reading List also has great suggestions:

http://www.heritage.org/about/community/insider/reading_list.html

Also check my own Freeper homepage, at the bottom a list of books and thinkers that shaped my thinking:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~wosg/

[eno_]

The Heritage Foundation list is good, and I have read several of those books. But Bennet's Book of Virtues is a pretty lame collection that is overbearingly didactic.

Add Plutarch's Lives Suetonius's Thirteen Caesars and Churchill, and you have what every American child should read before the end of 11th grade. I wish I had, and my kids will.And for fun I'll throw in The Prince, and Machiavelli's much less well know but vastly more entertaining Belphagor - so they know the travails of a husband.