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10 best books like Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (Albert Jay Nock): The Liberal Tradition in America, The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics Of Order And Freedom (Ics Series In Self Governance), The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered, Omnipotent Government, Denationalisation of Money, Conceived in Liberty (4 Volume Set), The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority, Time Will Run Back: A Novel About the Rediscovery of Capitalism, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America

The Liberal Tradition in America
AuthorLouis Hartz
ISBN0156512696
The uniqueness of the American political experience is that, lacking an ancien régime, we never had a social revolution, says Hartz, following de Tocqueville; we were "born equal." (I know, forget about slavery.) Unlike in Europe, there was no old structure for Americans to rebel against and destroy....
The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics Of Order And Freedom (Ics Series In Self Governance)
AuthorRobert A. Nisbet
ISBN1558150587
"The Quest for Community" stands among the most important social critiques ever written. The first book by the man the New York Times calls "one of our most original social thinkers", Robert Nisbet's study explores how individualism and statism have flourished while the primary sources of human community...
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945
AuthorGeorge H. Nash
            First published in 1976, and revised in 1996, George H. Nash’s celebrated history of the postwar conservative intellectual movement has become the unquestioned standard in the field. This new edition, published in commemoration of the volume’s thirtieth anniversary,...
Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered
AuthorRussell Kirk
Russell Kirk was a leading figure in the post-World War II revival of American interest in Edmund Burke. Today, no one who takes seriously the problems of society dares remain indifferent to "the first conservative of our time of troubles." In Russell Kirk's words: "Burke's ideas interest anyone nowadays,...
Omnipotent Government
AuthorLudwig von Mises
ISBN1406741949
Updated 24 March 2017
Very timely, especially considering the book came out in 1944, during WWII.
I read this book originally about 1979 or 1980 and loved it.
Just read it again, at the urging of Jeff Tucker, over the last year and a half. No regrets in spending the time needed to reread at all....
Denationalisation of Money
AuthorFriedrich A. Hayek
ISBN0255362390
The government monopoly of money must be abolished to stop the recurring bouts of acute inflation and deflation that have become accentuated during the last seventy years.Abolition is also the cure for the more deep-seated disease of the recurring waves of depression and unemployment attributed...
Conceived in Liberty (4 Volume Set)
AuthorMurray N. Rothbard
ISBN0945466269
For anyone who thinks of Murray Rothbard as only a economic
theorist or political thinker, these four spectacular volumes are nothing
short of shocking. They offer a complete history of the Colonial period of
American history, a period lost to students today, who are led to believe
American...
The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
AuthorRose Wilder Lane
ISBN0930073002
This is a book of timeless importance. It must be read by anyone who is seriously interested in the heritage of liberty--not just in America, but the world over. And reading it is a joy. Lane, who is said to have written the book 'at white heat,' was at once a brilliant thinker and a gifted storyteller.

This...
Time Will Run Back: A Novel About the Rediscovery of Capitalism
AuthorHenry Hazlitt
ISBN0819154709
Anyone who recognizes the name Henry Hazlitt will not be surprised that this book is about economics, even though it is fiction. The plot is a thin veneer over dialogs between the two main characters, which, in fits and starts, take one from the beginning position of "Mankind is at its apex having lived...
The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America
AuthorNick Gillespie
ISBN1586489380
Everywhere in America, the forces of digitization, innovation, and personalization are expanding our options and bettering the way we live. Everywhere, that is, except in our politics. There we are held hostage to an eighteenth century system, dominated by two political parties whose ever-more-polarized...
Why Not Capitalism?
AuthorJason Brennan
ISBN0415732972
Most economists believe capitalism is a compromise with selfish human nature. As Adam Smith put it, "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." Capitalism works better than socialism, according to...
We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future
AuthorMatthew Spalding
ISBN1935191675
I had the honour and pleasure of meeting the author back in 1996 when I was a precocious young intern (a few months shy of my 21st birthday, and in my junior year at the University of Southern California) at the Heritage Foundation. I'm pleased to see that Dr. Spalding has since been promoted to the position...
The Mainspring of Human Progress
AuthorHenry Grady Weaver
ISBN1572460644
The Mainspring of Human Progress is one of the best introductions to the history of human freedom. It throws light on many problems plaguing the postwar world, and traces them back to the age-old conflict between Pagan Fatalism and Christian Freedom. Weaver's classic work remains one of the finest...
Ideas Have Consequences
AuthorRichard M. Weaver
ISBN0226876802
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and offers a realistic remedy. He asserts that the world is intelligible and that man is free. The catastrophes of our age the catastrophes of our age are the product of unintelligent choice and the cure lies...
Money of the Mind: How the 1980s Got That Way
AuthorJames Grant
ISBN0374524017
The 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculative frenzy of the eighties didn't just happen. It was the culmination of a long cycle of slow relaxation...
Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
AuthorAndrew P. Napolitano
ISBN1595553517
A harsh and revealing political expose of two beloved presidents. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano reveals how Roosevelt, a bully, and Wilson, a constitutional scholar, each pushed aside the Constitution's restrictions on the federal government and used it as an instrument to redistribute wealth, regulate...
National Security and Double Government
AuthorMichael J. Glennon
ISBN0190206446
Why has U.S. security policy scarcely changed from the Bush to the Obama administration? National Security and Double Government offers a disquieting answer. Michael J. Glennon challenges the myth that U.S. security policy is still forged by America's visible, "Madisonian institutions" - the...
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
AuthorRobert Higgs
Few topics are as timely as the growth of government. To understand why government has grown, Robert Higgs asserts, one must understand how it has grown. This book offers a coherent, multi-causal explanation, guided by a novel analytical framework firmly grounded in historical evidence.
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The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy
AuthorHans-Hermann Hoppe
ISBN0792393287
The collapse of socialism across Eastern Europe - as manifested most dramatically by the events of the forever memorable November 9, 1989, when the Germans of East and West reunited, moved and overjoyed, on top of the Berlin Wall - has added more support and urgency to the central thesis of this volume...
Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism
AuthorJames Burnham
The premise of The Suicide of the West is that the West is in decline, and the decline is fueled by the rise of liberalism. Despite the strong title, most of the book is an attempt at an objective definition of liberalism. Only the beginning and end actually discuss why liberalism could potentially lead...
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