Required Reading – Add more to this list – Library of BTM
Posted by jpayer on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 21:00 in I would like to see a section on this site dedicated as the BTM library. In it would be a list of books separated in topics, links to direct users towards the specific book on amazon.com (an immediate link to purchase and who knows it may also bring in revenue for BTM), and have an option where users could suggest their own titles.
Here’s a start to this idea but hopefully it will end up one day not in a forum but as a dedicated page:
Manifesto:
The Mainspring of Human Progress
http://www.amazon.com/Mainspring-Human-Progress-Henry-Weaver/dp/15724606...
Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
http://www.amazon.com/Blowback-Second-Consequences-American-Empire/dp/08...
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
http://www.amazon.com/March-Folly-Troy-Vietnam/dp/0345308239/ref=wl_it_d...
Democracy in America
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-America-Penguin-Classics-Tocqueville/dp/...
Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1933-1941
http://www.amazon.com/Back-Door-War-Roosevelt-1933-1941/dp/0837179904/re...
Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
http://www.amazon.com/Terror-Name-God-Religious-Militants/dp/0060505338/...
Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State
http://www.amazon.com/Made-Love-Got-War-Encounters/dp/0977825345/ref=wl_...
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
http://www.amazon.com/War-Made-Easy-Presidents-Spinning/dp/047179001X/re...
Age of Inflation Continued
http://www.amazon.com/Age-Inflation-Continued-Hans-Sennholz/dp/091088448...
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
http://www.amazon.com/Dying-Win-Strategic-Suicide-Terrorism/dp/081297338...
The God of the Machine
http://www.amazon.com/God-Machine-Isabel-Paterson/dp/1560006668/ref=wl_i...
Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War I
http://www.amazon.com/Wilsons-War-Woodrow-Blunder-Hitler/dp/1400082366/r...
Atlas Shrugged
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452011876/ref=wl_it_dp...
Love of Liberty
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Liberty-Leonard-E-Read/dp/0910614547/ref=wl_i...
The reigning error: The crisis of world inflation
http://www.amazon.com/reigning-error-crisis-world-inflation/dp/B0006CQBN...
The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
http://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Good-Intentions-Prosecutors-Constitution/d...
Speaking of Liberty
http://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Liberty-Llewellyn-H-Rockwell/dp/094546638...
America's Great Depression
http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Great-Depression-Murray-Rothbard/dp/09454...
The Monetary Sin of the West
http://www.amazon.com/Monetary-Sin-West-Jacques-Rueff/dp/B0006DYVOC/ref=...
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Hubris-West-Losing-Terror/dp/1597971596/r...
Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America
http://www.amazon.com/Through-Our-Enemies-Eyes-Radical/dp/1597971626/ref...
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-Crowds/dp/...
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
http://www.amazon.com/Human-Action-Ludwig-von-Mises/dp/0865976317/ref=wl...
Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them
http://www.amazon.com/Overblown-Politicians-Terrorism-Industry-National/...
Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws
http://www.amazon.com/Constitutional-Chaos-Happens-Government-Breaks/dp/...
A Nation of Sheep
http://www.amazon.com/Nation-Sheep-Andrew-P-Napolitano/dp/1595550976/ref...
What Has Government Done to Our Money? Case for the 100 Percent Gold Dollar
http://www.amazon.com/What-Government-Money-Percent-Dollar/dp/0945466447...
Economics in One Lesson
http://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-50th-Anniversary/dp/093007319...
The Road to Serfdom
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Documents-Definitive-Collected/dp/022...
THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND
http://www.amazon.com/CREATURE-JEKYLL-ISLAND-Federal-Reserve/dp/B00181HB...
Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire
http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Empire-Wordsworth-Classics-Literature/dp/1...
Ex America: The 50th Anniversary of the People's Pottage
http://www.amazon.com/Ex-America-Anniversary-Peoples-Pottage/dp/08700444...
The Myth of the Robber Barons
http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Robber-Barons-Burton-Folsom/dp/0963020315/ref...
As We Go Marching
http://www.amazon.com/As-We-Marching-John-Flynn/dp/B000WTXMBS/ref=wl_it_...
The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II
http://www.amazon.com/New-Dealers-War-Within-World/dp/0465024653/ref=wl_...
The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I
http://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Victory-America-World-War/dp/0465024696/r...
A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
http://www.amazon.com/Century-War-Anglo-American-Politics-World/dp/07453...
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Lincoln-Abraham-Agenda-Unnecessary/dp/0761526...
Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil
http://www.amazon.com/Terrorism-Tyranny-Trampling-Freedom-Justice/dp/140...
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
http://www.amazon.com/Pretext-War-Americas-Intelligence-Agencies/dp/1400...
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
http://www.amazon.com/New-American-Militarism-Americans-Seduced/dp/01953...
Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure
http://www.amazon.com/Antitrust-Monopoly-Anatomy-Independent-Political/d...
The Discovery of Freedom
http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Freedom-Rose-Wilder-Lane/dp/B000XG8TE0/r...
The Gold Clause: What it is and How to Use it Profitably
http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Clause-What-How-Profitably/dp/0595139671/ref=...
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
http://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Perennial/dp/0060...
The Case Against the Fed
http://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Fed-Murray-Rothbard/dp/094546617X/ref...
Political Education:
Rights of Man
http://www.amazon.com/Rights-Man-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486408930/ref...
The U.S. Constitution: And Fascinating Facts About It
http://www.amazon.com/U-S-Constitution-Fascinating-Facts-About/dp/189174...
Common Sense
http://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486296024/r...
The Failure of America's Foreign Wars
http://www.amazon.com/Failure-Americas-Foreign-Wars/dp/0964044765/ref=wl...
Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
http://www.amazon.com/Hayeks-Challenge-Intellectual-Biography-F/dp/02260...
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Disobedience-Essays-Thrift-Editions/dp/04862...
Civil Procedure
http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Procedure-Casebook-Stephen-Yeazell/dp/073554...
Constitutional Law Principles and Policies
http://www.amazon.com/Constitutional-Law-Principles-Policies-Introductio...
The Wealth of Nations
http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Nations-Bantam-Classics/dp/0553585975/ref=w...
How to Win a Fight with a Conservative
http://www.amazon.com/How-Fight-Conservative-Daniel-Kurtzman/dp/14022088...
How to Win a Fight with a Liberal
http://www.amazon.com/How-Fight-Liberal-Daniel-Kurtzman/dp/1402208790/re...
Plato: Republic
http://www.amazon.com/Plato-Republic/dp/0872201368/ref=wl_it_dp?ie=UTF8&...
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
http://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/0143...
Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy
http://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Secrets-Mark-M-Lowenthal/dp/193311602...
The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness
http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Mind-Psychological-Political-Madness/dp/09...
America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies
http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Secret-War-Worldwide-Struggle/dp/03855124...
Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything
http://www.amazon.com/Go-Directly-Jail-Criminalization-Everything/dp/193...
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
http://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797/r...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427...
The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Constitution (Politically Incorrect Guides)
http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Constitution-Guides/dp...
The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World
http://www.amazon.com/U-N-Exposed-Sabotages-Americas-Security/dp/B000RWD...
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary/dp/15602...
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
http://www.amazon.com/Nemesis-American-Republic-Empire-Project/dp/080508...
Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies
http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Legal-Research-Strategies-Writing/dp/0735527...
Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law
http://www.amazon.com/Legal-Research-How-Find-Understand/dp/1413300588/r...
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
http://www.amazon.com/Omnipotent-Government-Rise-Total-State/dp/09108841...
A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship
http://www.amazon.com/Foreign-Policy-Freedom-Commerce-Friendship/dp/0912...
Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control
http://www.amazon.com/Armed-New-Perspectives-Gun-Control/dp/1573928836/r...
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Collapse-Example-American-Prospects/dp...
BUREAUCRACY
http://www.amazon.com/BUREAUCRACY-LUDWIG-VON-MISES/dp/0865976643/ref=wl_...
On Doing the Right Thing
http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Right-Thing-Albert-Nock/dp/B000XGAFE2/ref=wl...
On Freedom and Free Enterprise
http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Free-Enterprise-Presented-Anniversary/dp/B...
ON LIBERTY, SOCIETY & POLITICS
http://www.amazon.com/LIBERTY-SOCIETY-POLITICS-WILLIAM-GRAHAM/dp/0865971...
Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision
http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Code-Restore-Americas-Original/dp/1576754...
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask
http://www.amazon.com/Questions-About-American-History-Supposed/dp/03073...
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-American-Empire-Economic/dp/0452289...
Liberal Fascism
http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/038...
How to Get Into Politics--And Why
http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Into-Politics-Why/dp/0669467960/ref=wl_it_...
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming
http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Global-Warming-Environmental...
Economic Education:
How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't
http://www.amazon.com/How-Economy-Grows-Why-Doesnt/dp/0930374061/ref=wl_...
The Biggest Con: How the Government Is Fleecing You
http://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Con-How-Government-Fleecing/dp/0930374010/...
Economics for Real People
http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Real-People-Introduction-Austrian/dp/094...
Treatise on Political Economy; or the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
http://www.amazon.com/Treatise-Political-Production-Distribution-Consump...
Knowledge And Decisions
http://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Decisions-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465037380/re...
State Against Blacks
http://www.amazon.com/State-Against-Blacks-Walter-Williams/dp/0070703795...
Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't
http://www.amazon.com/Freedomnomics-Market-Works-Half-Baked-Theories/dp/...
Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse
http://www.amazon.com/Crash-Proof-Economic-Collapse-Sonberg/dp/047004360...
America's Great Depression
http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Great-Depression-Murray-Rothbard/dp/09454...
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
http://www.amazon.com/Manias-Panics-Crashes-Financial-Investment/dp/0471...
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By Kurt Vonnegut is a good one.
Also Breakfast of Champions
I also like
Dr. Seuss' "Mr. Brown Can Moo. Can You."
And the Brothers Karamazov;\
and the Bible
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I don't see how it belongs on the list. Complete pile of crap. Couldn't read more than 30 pages.
The Screwing of the Average Man by David Hapgood
http://www.amazon.com/screwing-average-man-David-Hapgood/dp/B0006W84KK
Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries gives great examples and almost step-by-step instructions on how we can push back from our computers and pull up a chair to a real dialogue with real friends and neighbors.
Ron Paul's book on Revolution is also a must read.
Ken Berry, MD
www.whokilledtheconstitution.com and there are a few other great books there too
Revolution, A Manifesto - Ron Paul
War is a Racket - Smedley D. Butler
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
Secret History of an American Empire - John Perkins (caught it late.. consider this a "second")
The Shack - W. Paul Young
From here you can find the actual books online many times especially if they're old.
http://www.google.com/books?spell=1&q=sun+tsu+art+of+war+&btnG=Search+Bo...
http://www.google.com/books?id=CmyBejG1tlgC&pg=PR11&dq=sun+tsu+art+of+wa...
You HAVE to add "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World" by the late, great Harry Browne. I'd also highly recommend his books "Why Government Doesn't Work" and "The Great Libertarian Offer."
Also, "Healing Our World" by Dr. Mary J. Ruwart.
Aldous Huxley- Brave New World, Brave New World Revisited, Ape and Essence, Island
George Orwell- Animal Farm, 1984
Ray Bradbury- Fahrenheit 451
Howard Zinn- People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
James W. Loewen- Lies My Teacher Told Me- Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
The Anti-Federalist Papers- and the Constitutional Convention Debates (edited/intro by Ralph Ketcham)
I second that. "Brave New World", "Fahrenheit 451", and "1984".. three of my very favorite books of all time. Great reading that will scare the pants off of you, and motivate you to action (to prevent these "dark utopias" from coming to pass.) Highly recommended - I'll have to read the others you listed! Thanks for sharing! :)
In another life, childhood, I read any and everything Bradbury.
This book was one of them that made it to adulthood and I've passed it on to my kids.
DanielC
I think I would like to add my book to the list. "Crazyman's Economics"
www.crazymanseconomics.com
"[Crazyman's Economics is] not a typical investment book, to be sure. Having read through it…I have to say that it is not crazy at all, but actually applies good, solid horse sense to the financial markets."
Gary Weiss – Fmr. Business Week senior write
Mi Influence
I think you should add Lee Iacocca- Where have all our leaders gone? and
Vincent Bugliossa- The prosecution of George W. Bush for murder
So much better literature out there. But it is revealing to those who may think BTM is a good joke.
You make a point which should be noted so that users of BTM would be able to write their own reviews. What pieces of work would you suggest?
Mr. Payer,
Your list is very good! Mine is similar so you'll see some overlap.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND LAW
President Who?: Forgotten Founders (Stanley L. Klos)
Democracy in America (Alexis deTocqueville)
Cracks in the Constitution (Ferdinand Lundberg)
Hologram of Liberty: The Constitution's Shocking Alliance With Big Government (Kenneth W. Royce)
What the Anti-Federalists Were for: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution (Herbert Storing)
The Anti-Federalist: An Abridgment of The Complete Anti-Federalist (Herbert Storing)
Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men
Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War
America’s Caesar: Lincoln and the Decline & Fall of Republican Government in America
The Real Lincoln (Thomas J. DiLorenzo)
Lincoln Unmasked (DiLorenzo)
States’ Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876
Federal Usurpation
Destroying the Republic: Jabez Curry and the Re-education of the Old South (John Chodes)
Yankee Leviathan: Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859-1877
Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920
The Theme is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition (M. Stanton Evans)
Savior or Servant? Putting Government in its Place (David Hall)
A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship (U.S. Rep. Ron Paul)
Re-Assessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom
The Permanent War Economy
The Nation-State and Violence
The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories
The War With Spain in 1898
The Sinking of the USS Maine
The Spanish War
Over Here: The First World War and American Society
Wilson’s War
Lusitania: an Epic Tragedy
Dirty Little Secrets of World War II
Roosevelt’s Secret War
Day of Deceit (Robert B. Stinnett)
FDR’s Folly
Churchill’s Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine
It’s the Crude, Dude
Standing With Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State
Christian Zionism
Jerusalem Countdown (Hagee; as a foil, for understanding the Zionist scam)
Iraq Journal 2003 (Shane Claiborne)
The Coming Collapse of China
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
The Rise and Decline of the State
Globalization and Its Discontents
Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders
Cossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
The Sovereign Individual (James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg)
Christianity and Law (Stephen Perks)
Lex Rex (Samuel Rutherford)
All the Laws But One (Chief Justice Wm. Rehnquist)
Constitutional Chaos (Judge Andrew Napolitano)
A Matter of Interpretation (Justice Antonin Scalia)
Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges (Judge Robert Bork)
The Coming Collision: Global Law vs U.S. Liberties
Freedom Under Seige: The U.S. Constitution After 200 Years (Ron Paul)
Crisis and Leviathan
Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11
The New Pearl Harbor
The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism
Piercing the Illusion (John Baptist Kotmair; all about the IRS scam from an original Tax Honesty leader)
The Manipulated Mind: Brainwashing, Conditioning, and Indoctrination (Denise Winn)
CHRISTIANITY IN AMERICA & THE WORLD
The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church
Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church: Eyewitness Accounts of How American Churches are Hijacking Jesus, Bagging the Beatitudes, and Worshipping the Almighty Dollar (Becky Garrison)
The Gospel and the American Dream
The Arrogance of the Modern (David Hall)
Rethinking the Wineskin: The Practice of the NT Church (Viola)
Straight Talk to Elders (Viola)
The Untold Story of the NT Church (Viola)
Pagan Christianity: Origins of our Modern Church Practices (George Barna & Frank Viola)
Rethinking the Church (Frank Viola)
The Churches of God (G.H. Lang)
The Secret of His Purpose (John Kennedy)
Paul’s Idea of Community (Robert Banks)
Uniting Church and Home (Tom Eldridge)
Turning Back the Darkness: The Biblical Pattern of Reformation
Dismissing God: Modern Writers’ Struggle Against Religion (exposes many seminal American authors)
Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Critical Change in the Years 1950-2000 (exposes Billy Graham)
China’s Christian Millions: The Costly Revival
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity
ECONOMICS, DEBT, AND THE PROFESSIONS IN AMERICA
Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
The Servile State (Hillaire Belloc)
The Road to Serfdom (Frederic Hayek)
Economics in One Lesson (Henry Hazlitt)
When Corporations Rule the World (David C. Korten, 2001)
The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Joel Bakan, 2005)
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (David C. Korten, 2007)
A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and... (Richard Bookstaber, 2007)
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash (Chas Morris, 2008)
The Case Against the Fed (Murray Rothbard, 2007)
Blood Money, the Civil War, and the Federal Reserve (John R. Graham, 2006)
Truth About Money: The Worst...Crime In Am Hist: The Fed Reserve Banking Act (Wallace & Clark, 2008)
The Creature From Jekyll Island (G. Edward Griffin)
Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country (Wm. Greider, 1989)
An Essay on the Restoration of Property
The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages
A History of Money and Banking in the United States (Rothbard)
Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Bonner & Wiggin...a SUPERB one, this book)
The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures
Unaccountable: How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust (Mike Brewster)
Credit Card Nation
The Overspent American
CHRISTIAN CHILD-REARING & LIFELONG LEARNING
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe
The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
Ideas Have Consequences (Richard Weaver)
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
The Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian Worldview
David
You forgot Sybil
Maybe we should start with a wish list on amazon.com that's public and eventually it can be implemented or dedicated on BTM
He's just our resident Zionist troll. You find them on every website that questions Israel and Zionism. The best thing you can do is ignore him.