Reading List for Liberals (Vanity)

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[Laserman]

Need recommendations for a Reading List for a Liberal to learn about Conservative values and positions on issues.

[Laserman]

I want to give a list of books to read to a clueless Liberal, so he can learn something about Conservatism. Looking for suggestions.

THANKS!!!

[Psycho_Bunny]

Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist

[svcw]

I appreciate your effort but I have never met a liberal who is interested in facts.
But any book by Mark Levin (ok I bungled that spelling).

[Laserman]

I agree that they don’t want to be confused by facts, but this guy is a big proponent of reading about politics and such.

[Star Traveler]

Get a liberal “saved” first... i.e., become a Christian, know the Word of God, know that what God says in the Bible is what He means and that He’ll do what He says He’ll do... and then... the rest comes naturally... a “conservative”.... :-)

[JLS]

The Road to Serfdom
Liberal Fascism
America Alone
Any of the general market books by Milton Friedan and Thomas Sowell.

[goodnesswins]

Liberal Facism

[Laserman]

Thanks! I was thinking of Anne Coulter’s books too.

[Maigret]

Mark Levin’s Liberty & Tyranny, the simplest doof can read this and understand where we’ve gone wrong.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Liberty And Tyranny by Mark Levin

Parliament Of Whores and/or All The Trouble In The World by PJ O'Rourke

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg

[Laserman]

Good suggestions. I’ll post a summary list at the end of this thread.

[Suz in AZ]

How about movies?
I think everyone should watch “Night Crossing”

[DHSMostWanted]

The writings of Thomas Paine, specifically Common Sense and American Crisis.

[Suz in AZ]

How about the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution?

[Suz in AZ]

The 5000 Year Leap

[Laserman]

Certainly a good place to start.

[RAO1125]

The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul
The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
Constitutional Chaos by Andrew Napolitano
Constitution in Exile by Andrew Napolitano
The Obama Nation by Jerome Corsi

Those are just a few of my favorites, obviously from a paleocon/libertarian slant. I’d be interested in seeing the response from the neoconservative crowd and what books they’ve read to form their political opinions.

[RAO1125]

Ahh, good one. I missed that one as well as Glenn Beck’s Inconvient Truth. I first heard about the 5,000 Year Leap on Beck’s show.

[itsamelman]

... the simplest doof can read this and understand where we’ve gone wrong.

Yeah, but how about a liberal?

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Free To Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman was made into an excellent TV series in the 1970’s. Every episode can be viewed for free online, if you Google it. You can even see Donald Rumsfeld in a round table discussion, when he was a corporate bigwig.