In the back of Dr. Ron Paul’s book The Revolution: A Manifesto, there is a Ron Paul’s reading list. Dr. Paul originally posted this at LewRockwell.com.
In The Revolution: A Manifesto, Dr. Paul recommends this freedom reading list.
- Armentano, Dominick. Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure, 2nd ed. Oakland, Calif.: Independent Institute, 1990.
- Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006
- Bamford, James. A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies. New York Anchor, 2005.
- Bovard, James. Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- DiLorenzo, Thomas J. The Real Lincoln. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2003
- Engdahl, F. William. A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order. London: Pluto Press, 2004
- Fleming, Thomas. The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I. New York: Basic Books, 2004
- Fleming, Thomas. The New Dealer’s War: FDR and the War Within World War II. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
- Flynn, John T. As We Go Marching. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1944. Flynn was an accomplished journalist, analyzes facism in Italy and Germany and concludes by considering the state of America in his day.
- Folsom, Burton W., Jr. The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America. Herndon, Va.: Young America’s Foundation, 1993.
- Garrett, Garet. The People’s Pottage. Caldwell, Id.: Caxton, 1953. This is a persuasively argued and compellingly written early critique of the New Deal policies of the 1930s.
- Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Modern Library, 2003 [1776-88].
- Griffin, G. Edward. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, 4th ed. Westlake Village, Calif.: American Media, 2002.
- Hayek, Fredrich A. The Road to Serfdom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944.
- Hazlitt, Henry. Economics in One Lesson. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1988 [1946] The classic text has helped millions of Americans understand basic economics and the free market in just a few hours. (An indication of how the world has changed: Hazlitt once wrote editorials for the New York Times.)
- Hoffer, Eric. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. New York: Harper & Row, 1951.
- Holzer, Henry Mark, ed. The Gold Clause: What It Is and How to Use It Profitably. iUniverse, 2000.
- Jastram, Roy William. The Golden Constant: The English and American Experience, 1560-1976. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978.
- Johnson, Chalmers. Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, 2nd ed. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.
- Kwitney, Jonathan. Endless Enemies: America’s Worldwide War Against Its Own Best Interests. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1984.
- Lane, Rose Wilder. The Discovery of Freedom. New York: John Day 1943.
- MacKay, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1869 [1841].
- Mises, Ludwig von. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949.
- Mueller, John. Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them. New York: Free Press, 2006.
- Napolitano, Andrew P. Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When Government Breaks Its Own Laws. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006.
- Napolitano, Andrew P. A Nation of Sheep. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007
- Palyi, Melchior. The Twilight of Gold, 1914-1936: Myths and Realities. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1972.
- Pape, Robert. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. New York : Random House, 2006.
- Psaternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. New York: Pantheon, 1997 [1958].
- Paterson, Isabel. The God of the Machine. New York: Putman, 1943. A classic work of libertarian political theory.
- Powell, Jim. Wilson’s War. New York: Crown Forum, 2005.
- Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957. I consider all of Rand’s novels worth reading, in spite of my strong disagreements with her on important matters.
- Read, Leonard E. The Love of Liberty. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y: Foundation for Economic Education, 1975.
- Rees-Mogg, William. The Reigning Error: The Crisis of World Inflation. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974.
- Roberts, Paul Craig, and Lawrence M. Stratton. The Tyranny of Good Intention: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Rosville, Calif.: Prima 2000.
- Rockwell, Llewellyn H., Jr. Speaking of Liberty. Auburn Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2005.
- Rothbard, Murray N. America’s Great Depression, 5th ed. Auburn Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2000.
- Rothbard, Murray N. What Has Government Done to Our Money? Auburn Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1990. The entire text isavailable for free here.
- Rueff, Jaques. The Monetary Sin of the West. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
- Scheuer, Michael. Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. Washington D.C.: Potomac Books, 2004.
- Sennholz, Hans F. Age of Inflation. Belmont, Mass.: Western Islands, 1979.
- Soloman, Norman. War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. New York: Wiley, 2006.
- Sterns, Jessica. Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004.
- Tansill, Charles Callan. Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1933-1941. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1952.
- Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002 [1835, 1840].
- Tuchman, Barbara J. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam. New York Ballantine, 1985
- Weaver, Henry Grady. The Mainspring of Human Progress. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economics Education, 1953.
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