My Summer Reading List

I’m hoping to get a lot of reading done this summer.  The following books are on my list:

My Books

• Cleon Skousen, The 5000 Year Leap:  The 28 Great Ideas that Changed the World
• Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny
• F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
• Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism:  The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
• Ronald J. Pestritto and William J. Atto, eds., American Progressivism:  A Reader
• Ronald J. Pestritto, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
• Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man:  A New History of the Great Depression
• Robert Gellately, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler:  The Age of Social Catastrophe
• Glenn Beck, An Inconvenient Book
• Walter Williams, Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism
• Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Library Books

• Thomas E. Woods, Jr., and Kevin R. C. Gutzman, Who Killed the Constitution?  The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
• Randy E. Barnett, Restoring the Lost Constitution:  The Presumption of Liberty
• George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Animal Spirits:  How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
• Andrew Klavan, The Last Thing I Remember

II4Cons: The Truth about the Great Depression and the New Deal

The truth about the Great Depression and the New Deal for conservatives:

Books:

• Thomas J., DiLorenzo, How Capitalism Saved America:  The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present, Chapters Nine and Ten (at Amazon.com)
• Burton W. Folsom, Jr., New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America (at Amazon.com)
• Jim Powell, FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (at Amazon.com)
• Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (at Amazon.com)

Articles:

• “Great Myths of the Great Depression“
• “Great Myths about the Great Depression“
• “Four Myths about America’s Great Depression“
• “Five Myths about the Great Depression“
• “Three Myths of the Great Depression“
• “Barack Obama and the FDR-Great Depression Myth“

Videos:

• “Thomas DiLorenzo – The Great Depression, the Truth“
• “Uncommon Knowledge: The Great Depression with Amity Shlaes“
• “Great Depression vs. Today – New Deal or Raw Deal? – Rooseveltism vs. Obamaism” (Glenn Beck and Burton Folsom)

I’m also posting this information on the Information on Issues for Conservatives (II4Cons) wiki.  Please let me know if there are resources I should add by commenting on this post or sending me a message on Twitter.