Today's Politicos vs The Words and Deeds of The Founders

138 books overall; 25 books read in the last year; 2 books read in the last month. That's an average of 1 book each month.

Planned books (7):

• In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal by William G. Hyland Jr.
• The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participants by Unknown
• America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story by Bruce Feiler
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• George Washington’s Sacred Fire by Peter A. Lillback
• The Drillmaster of Valley Forge by Paul Douglas Lockhart
• college what it was and what it is by

Current books (3):

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  Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Third Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Ser by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Mark A. Hall

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  Blood of Tyrants: George Washington by Logan Beirne

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  Coolidge by Amity Shlaes

Recent books (122):

• The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas by Jonah Goldberg
• Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dicti by Simon Winchester
• College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco
• ADMIRAL BYNG: His Rise and Execution by Chris Ware
• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States by Daniel Walker Howe
• The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation (Cambridge by R. Kent Newmyer
• The Panther (John Corey) by Nelson DeMille
• Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and the Betrayal that Divided a Natio by Gary Nash, Graham Russell Gao Hodges
• The Amateur by Edward Klein
• Gideon’s Corpse by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
• Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led by Les Standiford
• The Price of Politics by Bob Woodward
• The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States by Gordon S. Wood
• Rifleman: A Novel about One of the Little-Known Heroes of the American Revolution by John Brick
• Founding Fathers Know Best: Is the President Leading the Country in the Wrong Direction. The Past P by Ross Edward Puskar
• We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861 by William J. Cooper
• Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe
• Roads to the Temple: Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987- by Leon Aron
• The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation by Stephen Prothero
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents: From Wilson to Obama (Politically Incorrect Guide by Steven F. Hayward
• Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick by Peter Collier
• James Madison and the Making of America by Kevin R. C. Gutzman
• Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
• Your Teacher Said What?!: Defending Our Kids from the Liberal Assault on Capitalism by Joe Kernen, Blake Kernen
• New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America by Burton W. Folsom Jr.
• The Route by Joey Fortuna
• Madison’s Metronome: The Constitution, Majority Rule, and the Tempo of American Politics (American P by Greg Weiner
• A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent by Robert W. Merry
• Principled Action: Lessons from the Origins of the American Republic by James D. Best
• The Tea Party: Three Principles by Elizabeth Price Foley
• The Founders’ Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution an by Larry P. Arnn
• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (Vi by Richard Holmes
• Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive by Ray Raphael
• FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberti by Burton W. Jr. Folsom, Anita Folsom
• WITH MUSKET AND TOMAHAWK: The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777 by Michael O. Logusz
• After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Mark Steyn
• Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security by Dean Reuter, John Yoo
• James Madison by Richard Brookhiser
• The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture by David Mamet
• Ethan Allen: His Life and Times by Willard Sterne Randall
• American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783 by William M Jr. Fowler
• Signing Their Rights Away by Denise Kiernan, Joseph D’Agnese
• Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949 by Richard Reeves
• Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law by Hadley Arkes
• Angry Mobs and Founding Fathers: The Fight for Control of the American Revolution by Michael E Newton
• A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness by Nassir Ghaemi
• Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy by Ph.D. Paul Edward Gottfried
• Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! by Andrew Breitbart
• Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s Epic Quest to Rescue the House that Jefferson Built by Marc Leepson
• Omnipotent Government by Ludwig Von Mises
• Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation (Jeffersonian Ame by edited by John Craig Hammond and Mattew Mason
• The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
• Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff between Privacy and Security by Daniel J. Solove
• The Patriot’s History Reader: Essential Documents for Every American by Larry Schweikart, Michael Allen, Dave Dougherty
• Albert Gallatin – American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII by John Austin Stevens
• American Politics, Then by James Q. Wilson
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
• Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution by Robert H. Patton
• The Burning of Washington: The British Invasion of 1814 (Bluejacket Paperback) by Anthony S. Pitch
• The Savvy Author’s Guide To Book Publicity: A Comprehensive Resource — from Building the Buzz to Pi by Lissa Warren
• The Great Virginia Triumvirate: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison in the Eyes o by John P. Kaminski
• God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution by Thomas S. Kidd
• Gallatin: America’s Swiss Founding Father by Nicholas Dungan
• Underdogma: How America’s Enemies Use Our Love for the Underdog to Trash American Power by Michael Prell
• Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation by Alfred F. Young, Ray Raphael and Gary Nash
• American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People by T. H. Breen
• The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America by Jay Sexton
• An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek
• Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership from the Idealist General (World Generals) by Marc Leepson
• Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff
• Valley Forge: George Washington and the Crucible of Victory by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. Hanser
• What Would the Founders Say?: A Patriot’s Answers to America’s Most Pressing Problems by Larry Schweikart
• Interventionism: An Economic Analysis (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB) by LUDWIG VON MISES
• BUREAUCRACY (Lib Works Ludwig Von Mises PB) by LUDWIG VON MISES
• The American Revolution: A Concise History by Robert Allison
• First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
• American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger
• The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness by Harlow Giles Unger
• Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War by Edwin G. Burrows
• Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation by Harlow Giles Unger
• Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century by Paul Kengor
• The First Salute by Barbara W. Tuchman
• The Path to Tyranny: A History of Free Society’s Descent into Tyranny by Michael E Newton
• Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 by Pauline Maier
• George Washington: The Founding Father (Eminent Lives) by Paul Johnson
• First in Peace: How George Washington Set the Course for America by Conor Cruise O’Brien
• The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture by Joshua Kendall
• The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America by Daniel Hannan
• Liberty and Civilization: The Western Heritage by Roger Scruton
• Tempest at Dawn by James D. Best
• The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life by Kenneth Minogue
• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
• The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
• Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin
• George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek) by F. A. Hayek
• The Overton Window by Glenn Beck
• Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by Karl Rove
• Life of Washington by Anna Reed
• American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Meacham
• Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different by Gordon S. Wood
• James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History) by Richard Labunski
• The 5000 Year Leap (Original Authorized Edition) by W. Cleon Skousen
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Brita by Pauline Maier
• Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason (Vintage) by Russell Shorto
• Samuel Adams: A Life by Ira Stoll
• Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine by Glenn Beck
• Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (American Intellectual Culture) by Ronald J. Pestritto
• 1776 by David McCullough
• Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change by Jonah Goldberg
• Benjamin Franklin : An American Life by Walter Isaacson
• The Real George Washington (American Classic Series) by Jay A. Parry
• Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School by Benjamin Franklin
• The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
• Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution by A.J. Langguth
• Noah Webster : The Life and Times of an American Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger
• To Rule the Waves : How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur Herman