10 Books Every Conservative Must Read
by Wiker, BenjaminFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-06-15
Publisher(s): Regnery Pub
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Summary
Following up his 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, author Benjamin Wiker brings you 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read. Turning 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, Wiker features a range of books from classics such as Democracy in America and The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, to more unconventional books like Sense and Sensibility and The Tempest. From these ten books, Wiker reveals some of the most important lessons for our time as well as the true meaning of conservatism.
Author Biography
Benjamin Wiker received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, and has taught at Marquette University, St. Mary's University, Thomas Aquinas College, and Franciscan University. He is a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical theology and is also a senior fellow with Discovery Institute. He has written several other books, most recently Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God (co-authored with Scott Hahn) and 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others that Didn't Help. He lives in rural Ohio with his beloved wife, seven children.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Why These Books and Not | p. 1 |
| Just What Exactly Is Conservatism? | p. 7 |
| The Politics: Aristotle | p. 13 |
| Orthodoxy | p. 33 |
| The New Science of Politics | p. 53 |
| The Abolition of Man | p. 67 |
| Democracy and the Founding of the American Regime | p. 89 |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France | p. 91 |
| Democracy in america | p. 111 |
| The Federalist Papers | p. 127 |
| The Anti-Federalists | p. 149 |
| The Place of Economics for Conservatives | p. 169 |
| The Servile State | p. 171 |
| The Road to Serfdom | p. 191 |
| The Conservative Story, and Conservative Stories | p. 207 |
| The Tempest | p. 209 |
| Sense and Sensibility | p. 225 |
| The Lord of the Rings | p. 245 |
| The Jerusalem Bible | p. 267 |
| Atlas Shrugged | p. 291 |
| Conclusion | p. 329 |
| Notes | p. 333 |
| Index | p. 353 |
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Excerpts
List of Ten Books
Politicsby 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
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