Books we recommend

History

• Capitalism and a New Social Order by Joyce Appleby
• The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Toqueville
• Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America by Mark Levin

Economics

• Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
• The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
• The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell

Biographies

• The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood
• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
• John Adams by David McCullough (and the HBO Video series: DVD | Blu-ray)

Philosophy

• The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt
  I CAN NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK ENOUGH! Hazlitt builds the case that free market economics is the way things occur naturally. Building on the foundations of past economic philosophers, he shows the morality of how free markets shape civil society.
• The First Dissident: The Book of Job in Today’s Politics by William Safire

Fiction

• Scandalmonger by William Safire

Books for young people

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
• Make Way for Sam Houston by Jean Fritz