America’s Founding Documents
Here is a list of recommended books from our early incarnation of Liberty Ministries in 1980. Most of these are still recommend highly.
Individualism, Psychology, and Personal Development
Bible and Bible Reference Works (or whatever Sacred Writings you prefer):
Americanism, Economics and Current Events
- The Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson – 1776)
- The U.S. Constitution (James Madison – 1791)
- The Bill of Rights (James Madison – 1791)
- The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (Thomas Jefferson – 1786)
- The Federalist Papers (a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. The essays were published anonymously, under the pen name “Publius”)
- Essay on Our Property Rights (James Madison – 1794)
- Essay on Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson – 1845)
- Essay on the duty of Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau – 1847)
Individualism, Psychology, and Personal Development
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Pocket Books)
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (Pocket Books)
- Own Your Own Life by Richard Abell (Berkley)
- Pulling Your Own Strings by Wayne Dyer (Avon)
- I’m OK, You’re OK by Thomas Harris (Pocket Books)
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Fawcett)
- The True Believer by Eric Hoffer (Harper & Row)
- You’re Someone Special by Bruce Narramore (Zondervan)
- Looking Out for Number One by Robert Ringer (Fawcett)
- I Am, I Can by Danield Steere (Revell)
- See You At The Top by Zig Ziglar
Bible and Bible Reference Works (or whatever Sacred Writings you prefer):
- Bibles (choose the version that speaks clearly to you)
- Bible Concordance (i.e., Cruden’s)
- Bible Commentary
- Bible Dictionary
- Bible Stories
- Topical Bible (Nave’s)
- Greek Lexicon
- Halley’s Bible Handbook
- “Equipped For Every Good Work (available from Watchtower Publications)
- A current Collegiate Dictionary
Americanism, Economics and Current Events
- Free to Choose, by Milton Friedman (Harcourt, Brace)
- The First Freedom by Nat Hentoff (Delacorte)
- We Hold These Truths by Lawrence McDonald (’76 Press)
- The Light and the Glory by Marshall and Mauel (Revell)
- Capitalism–The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand (Pocket Books)
- Restoring the American Dream by Robert Ringer (Harper Row)
- Let Freedom Ring! by Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (Revell)
- How to Prepare for the Coming Bad Years by Howard Ruff
- Time for Truth by William Simon (Berkley Press)
- One Nation Under God by Rus Walton (Revell)