10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor
Benjamin WikerFollowing up his 10 Books That Screwed Up the World , author Benjamin Wiker brings you 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor. Offering a guide to some of the most important literary works of our time, Wiker turns his discerning eye from the great texts that have done so much damage to Western Civilization to the great texts that could help rebuild it. 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read features a range of works from classics such as Democracy in America and The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers , to more "pop" classics like Sense and Sensibility and The Tempest. Through these works, Wiker reveals some of the most important lessons for our time as well as the true meaning of conservatism. Written with an educational purpose and witty tone, this is a must-read for conservatives, Republicans, and booklovers everywhere!
From the Inside Flap
Praise for 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read
“Because of too much TV and too little decent schooling, too many Americans are unread in the classics that have defined our culture. That’s why Wiker’s 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read is so important: it provides a shopping list for those who want to understand what makes America and the West exceptional.”
—Brett M. Decker, Editorial Page Editor, Washington Times
“Benjamin Wiker illuminates some of the great books of our civilization with an insightful simplicity that is not only breathtaking but potentially life changing.”
—Joseph Pearce, author of biographies of Chesterton, Belloc, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien
Praise for 10 Books That Screwed Up the World
“Benjamin Wiker has read the worst books in Western Civilization so you don’t have to. Professor Wiker’s poison pen portraits are great critical aids to analyzing some of the worst ideas that have ever contaminated Western Civilization. Professor Wiker recommends actually reading the books—but his own book is a whole lot more fun.”
—Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D., author of How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
“If you want to know where Western civilization ran off the rails, read this book. And if you want to help get us back on track, buy extra copies and see what you can do to get them into doctor’s office waiting rooms, faculty lounges, and your local public library. Wiker has the goods on the authors of our current confusion about (among other things) human nature, morality, sex, economics, law, and government—this book will open many eyes.”
—Elizabeth Kantor, Ph.D., Editor of the Conservative Book Club and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide ™ to English and American Literature
From the Back Cover
Praise for 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read
?Because of too much TV and too little decent schooling, too many Americans are unread in the classics that have defined our culture. That’s why Wiker’s 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read is so important: it provides a shopping list for those who want to understand what makes America and the West exceptional.”
?Brett M. Decker, Editorial Page Editor, Washington Times
?Benjamin Wiker illuminates some of the great books of our civilization with an insightful simplicity that is not only breathtaking but potentially life changing.”
?Joseph Pearce, author of biographies of Chesterton, Belloc, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien
Praise for 10 Books That Screwed Up the World
?Benjamin Wiker has read the worst books in Western Civilization so you don’t have to. Professor Wiker’s poison pen portraits are great critical aids to analyzing some of the worst ideas that have ever contaminated Western Civilization. Professor Wiker recommends actually reading the books?but his own book is a whole lot more fun.”
?Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D., author of How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
?If you want to know where Western civilization ran off the rails, read this book. And if you want to help get us back on track, buy extra copies and see what you can do to get them into doctor’s office waiting rooms, faculty lounges, and your local public library. Wiker has the goods on the authors of our current confusion about (among other things) human nature, morality, sex, economics, law, and government?this book will open many eyes.”
?Elizabeth Kantor, Ph.D., Editor of the Conservative Book Club and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide ™ to English and American Literature
About the Author
Benjamin Wiker, a husband and the father of seven children, holds a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Vanderbilt University. He has taught at Marquette University, St. Mary’s University, and Thomas Aquinas College and is now a professor of political science and the director of human life studies at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. His twelve books include 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor , The Reformation 500 Years Later: 12 Things You Need to Know , and Worshipping the State: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion.
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List of Ten Books
Politics by Aristotle
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
The Anti-Federalist
Democracy in America by Alexis Tocqueville
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
The Science of Politics by Eric Voegelin
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
List of Four Not to Miss
The Bible
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings by J.R. Tolkien
One Impostor
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand