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

303 books overall; 4 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
• The Kings Rangers by John Brick

Current books (3):

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  Truman by David McCullough

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  Kingdom of Caine by Andrew Klavan

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  Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Recent books (271):

• Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
• The Accidental President by A. J. Baime
• The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels (re-reading) by Patrick O’Brian
• The Philosopher in the City by Hadley Arkes
• Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
• Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
• America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding by Robert Reilly
• Complete works of Montaigne: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Donad M. Frame
• Philosophy, History, and Tyranny: Reexamining the Debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojeve by Timothy W. Burns, Bryan-Paul Frost
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
• On Tyranny by Leo Strauss
• George Washington’s Nemesis: The Outrageous Treason and Unfair Court-Martial of Major General Charle by Christian McBurney
• George Washington: A Biography, Vol. 7: Leader of the Revolution by Douglas Southall Freeman
• A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution by Craig Symonds
• Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy by Mortimer J. Adler
• Redemption (Memory Man series) by David Baldacci
• William Gibson’s Alien 3 by William Gibson
• George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights by William G. Hyland Jr.
• The Woman in White (Macmillan Collector’s Library) by Wilkie Collins
• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
• The Complete Essays of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
• The Target (Will Robie Series) by David Baldacci
• How to Speak How to Listen by Mortimer J. Adler
• How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
• George Washington: A Biography, Vol. 3: Planter and Patriot by Douglas Southall Freeman
• The C. S. Lewis Signature Classics: An Anthology of 8 C. S. Lewis Titles: Mere Christianity, The Scr by C. S. Lewis
• George Washington: a Biography, Volumes One and Two [Young Washington] by Douglas Southall Freeman
• Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson
• Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy by Mortimer J. Adler
• A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown by Julia Scheeres
• A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
• Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father by Peter Stark
• The Pilgrim’s Progress (Dover Thrift Editions) by John Bunyan
• Victory or Death: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, December 25, 1776 – January 3, 1777 (Emergin by Mark Maloy
• Ashes of Victory (Honor Harrington Series, Book 9) by David Weber
• Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas
• A Close Run Thing: A Novel of Wellington’s Army of 1815 by Allan Mallinson
• Grant by Ron Chernow
• Abraham Lincoln, the Prairie Years and the War Years, in One Volume by Carl Sandburg
• The Name of the Wind (the Kingkiller Chronicle( Day One))[KINGKILLER CHRON #01 NAME OF T][Hardcover] by PatrickRothfuss
• The Strategy of Victory: How General George Washington Won the American Revolution by Thomas Fleming
• Oathbringer: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
• Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf
• Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
• Words of Radiance: Book Two of the Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
• A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism by Carol Berkin
• After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition by Alasdair MacIntyre
• The Short Victorious War (Honor Harrington #3) by David Weber
• An Incautious Man: The Life of Gouveneur Morris (Lives of the Founders) by Ms. Melanie Randolph Miller
• Rise and Fight Again: The Life of Nathanael Greene (Lives of the Founders) by Spencer C. Tucker
• The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution by John Oller
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
• Mr. Mercedes: A Novel (The Bill Hodges Trilogy) by Stephen King
• Witness by Whittaker Chambers
• First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His–and the Nation’s–Prosperity by Edward G. Lengel
• Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything by Robert R. Reilly
• The Escape (John Puller Series) by David Baldacci
• Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
• The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture by David Mamet
• The Hit (Will Robie) by David Baldacci
• Enemies of the permanent things;: Observations of abnormality in literature and politics by Russell Kirk
• Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury
• Henry Clay: America’s Greatest Statesman by Harlow Giles Unger
• The Passage: A Novel by Justin Cronin
• The Pirate by Frederick Captain Marryat
• Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Aristotle
• Commodore Levy: A Novel of Early America in the Age of Sail (Modern Jewish History) by Irving Litvag
• The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation by Thomas Fleming
• By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission by Charles Murray
• Jenny’s Revenge by James Best
• Battle of Hubbardton, The: (Military) by Bruce M. Venter
• Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America’s Founding Document by Mike Lee
• Band of Giants: The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America’s Independence by Jack Kelly
• Their Last Full Measure: The Final Days of the Civil War by Joseph Wheelan
• Werewolf Cop: A Novel by Andrew Klavan
• Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
• The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789 by Edward Larson
• The Geographer’s Library by Jon Fasman
• William Washington, American Light Dragoon: A Continental Cavalry Leader in the War of Independence by Daniel Murphy
• The Lincoln Myth: A Novel (Cotton Malone) by Steve Berry
• Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism (American Ideals by Robert P George
• Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
• Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
• The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany by Donald E. Westlake
• A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Adam Makos, Larry Alexander
• The Cost of Liberty: The Life of John Dickinson (Lives of the Founders) by William Murchison
• The Fox and the Hound: The Birth of American Spying by Donald E. Markle
• The Forgotten Conservative: Rediscovering Grover Cleveland by John M. Pafford
• Power Down (A Dewey Andreas Novel) by Ben Coes
• Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics) by Walter Scott
• American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague–Civil War by John Oller
• Open Season (A Joe Pickett Novel) by C. J. Box
• The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
• Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes by Joseph Conrad
• The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
• Almost A Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling
• A Guide for the Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher
• A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred by George Will
• Arundel by Kenneth Roberts
• When Washington Burned: An Illustrated History of the War of 1812 by Arnold Blumberg
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World’s Classics) by Edmund Burke
• America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats) by David Gelernter
• Give Me a Fast Ship: The Continental Navy and America’s Revolution at Sea by Tim McGrath
• The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) by Robert Middlekauff
• The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn’t My Fault) (And I’ll Never Do It Again) by P. J. O’Rourke
• Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics by Charles Krauthammer
• West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 by Claudio Saunt
• Miles Wallingford by James Fenimore Cooper
• Afloat and ashore by James Fenimore Cooper
• George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
• The Ethics of Rhetoric by Richard M. Weaver
• Terrible Swift Sword Volume 2 (American Civil War Trilogy) by Bruce Catton
• Witness by Whittaker Chambers
• The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny (Orestes A. Brownson: Works in Poli by Orestes Augustus Brownson
• The Coming Fury (The American Civil War Trilogy, Volume 1) by Bruce Catton
• Treason of the Heart: From Thomas Paine to Kim Philby by David Pryce-Jones
• The Last Patriot: A Thriller by Brad Thor
• Plutarchs Lives, Vol. 1- Part A by Plutarch
• Perilous Fight: America’s Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 (Vintage) by Stephen Budiansky
• The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective by Andy Andrews
• The Smell of Politics: The Good, the Bad, and the Odorous by Curtice Mang
• John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail by Tim McGrath
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812 by George C. Daughan
• Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? (HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION) by Walter E. Williams
• Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government by M. Stanton Evans, Herbert Romerstein
• Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man by Walter Stahr
• Sons of the Father: George Washington and His Protégés (Jeffersonian America) by Unknown
• by Harlow Giles Unger
• A Book of Voyages by Unknown
• Back on Murder (A Roland March Mystery) by J. Mark Bertrand
• The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War by Stephen Puleo
• Carnivore: A Memoir by One of the Deadliest American Soldiers of All Time by Dillard Johnson, James Tarr
• Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Times by Richard Weaver
• The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Cre by Simon Winchester
• No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet by Molly Knight Raskin
• Coolidge by Amity Shlaes
• Red Sparrow: A Novel by Jason Matthews
• Braddock’s March: How the Man Sent to Seize a Continent Changed American History by Thomas E. Crocker
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Taleb, Nassim Nicholas (Unabridged Edition) [AudioCD( by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• America’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation by Joshua Kendall
• Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
• Blood of Tyrants: George Washington by Logan Beirne
• 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
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• The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
• Farewell Summer by Ray Bradbury
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Dover Thrift Editions) by Mark Twain