Recommended Reading

The Maibach Fund recommends the following books and publications:

  • The Histories by Herodotus (440 BC)
  • The Apology of Socrates by Plato (399 BC)
  • The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson (1776)
  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
  • Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
  • The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay (1776)
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1790)
  • Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)
  • The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk (1953)
  • The American Cause by Russell Kirk (1957)
  • The Library of Conservative Thought edited by Russell Kirk (1963-1993)
  • Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered by Russell Kirk (1967)
  • The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk (1974)
  • With Malice Towards None by Stephen Oates (1977)
  • The Portable Conservative Reader by Russell Kirk (1982)
  • Redeeming the Time by Russell Kirk (1996)
  • Rights & Duties: Reflections on Our Conservative Constitution by Russell Kirk (1997)
  • How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman (2001)
  • The Essential Russell Kirk by Russell Kirk (2007)
  • Churchill by Paul Johnson (2009)

 

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