What One Book Do You Recommend?

[american.swan]

A lot of good books have been listed here, but not the two books that woke me up.

I suggest someone who has no idea what is going on to first read Lies My Teacher Told Me. This book will awaken an interest in History and discussion of History in a person.

Then the person should read the two books that woke me up to the abuse and craziness of government.

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Armed Madhouse
both by Greg Palast.

 

[american.swan]

cough, good thread, cough

 

[Minnesota Chris]

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

http://jim.com/econ/contents.html

 

[Minnesota Chris]

And for Christians, "Christian Anarchy: Jesus' Primacy Over the Powers" by Vernard Eller

http://www.hccentral.com/eller12/index.html

 

[icon124]

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

http://jim.com/econ/contents.html

is that the whole book?

 

[Minnesota Chris]

is that the whole book?

Yes, it's a short book, but a powerful introduction to free market economics.

 

[Minnesota Chris]

is that the whole book?

Well, I guess it's not as short as I remember...it's 218 pages, and you can buy it here if you want the real thing:

http://www.mises.org/store/Economics-in-One-Lesson-P33C0.aspx

 

[0zzy]

The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
A Nation of Sheep by Andrew Napolitano

 

[AdamT]

Creature From Jekyll Island. Amazing book which reads like a detective story.

 

[IDefendThePlatform]

The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman.

http://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Fre...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203138707&sr=1-1

Really gets to the heart of it all. Great book.

 

[icon124]

How I Found Freedom in an UnFree World by Harry Browne. -------- Does anyone know where I can get this book online? Do they have this as ab ebook download?

 

[Enzo]

The Giving Tree-Shel Silverstein

The Prophet-Khalil Gibran

The Book of Disquiet-Fernando Pessoa

The Magus-John Fowles

Anything by Edward Said or Noam Chomsky

 

[damoncrowe]

LEX REX by Samuel Rutherford (1644) and possibly "Vindiciae, contra tyrannos: or, Concerning the Legitimate Power of a Prince over the People, and of the People over a Prince" 1579.

 

[Libertytree]

Icon, Google it bro. There's a new updated version because it's back in print.

A couple other good books:

Harry Browne: Why government Doesn't Work

Milton Friedman: Politics and Tyranny: Lessons in Pursuit of Freedom

Milton Friedman: There's No Such Thing As a Free Lunch

Jimmy Buffett: Tales From Margaritaville

 

[gracebkr]

1776 by David McCullough and The Constitution in Exile by Andrew Napolitano. In the first we see what our founders did and their thoughts and their battles and how close it was to going the other way and in the latter we see how every thing that was fought for is being lost. Plus both are easy reads. Maybe just read 1984.

 

[gracebkr]

I also think we might be under the silly notion that people in this country read. If they did, they might be awake. Instead of watching news, they'd be reading it. We have to admit that we are interested in things, so when we want to know something about something we don't turn on the TV to get answers. That is what the majority of the US does though. At least it appears that way.

 

[virgil47]

A few of my favorites are Atlas Shrugged, 1984, And when it comes to books Fahrenheit 451. Also Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

 

[nathanmn]

How I Found Freedom in an UnFree World by Harry Browne. -------- Does anyone know where I can get this book online? Do they have this as ab ebook download?

http://petmeats.com/howifoundfreedominanunfreeworld

 

[icon124]

http://petmeats.com/howifoundfreedominanunfreeworld

Thank you!

 

[MsDoodahs]

Bump.