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A

• Henry Adams, History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison (U. Chi. Press, 1979)
• John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States (1971)
• Randolph Adams, Political Ideas of the American Revolution (N.Y., 3d ed., 1958)
• Political Writings of John Adams (Ind. In.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1954)
• Gary Amos, Defending the Declaration (Providence Foundation, 1994)
• Digby Anderson (ed.), The Loss of Virtue: Moral Confusion and Social Disorder in Britain and America (1992)
• A. Arato, Civil Society, Constitution and Legitimacy (Lanham, Md., 2000)
• Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (N.Y., 1950)
• Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1958)

B

• Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Harv. U. Press 1965)
• Edward Banfield, The Unheavenly City: The Nature and Future of Our Urban Crisis (1970)
• Earnest Barker, Principles of Social and Political Theory (Oxford U. Pr., 1951)
• Randy Barnett, Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton U. Press 2004)
• Randy Barnett, The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law
• Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the Present (N.Y., 2000)
• Claude Frédéric Bastiat, The Bastiat Collection
• David T. Beits, Peter Gordan and Alexander Tabarrock (eds.), The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society (Ann Arbor, 2002)
• A.J. Beitzinger, A History of American Political Thought (N.Y. Dodd, Mead & Co 1972)
• Robert N. Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in a Time of Trial (Minneapolis, MN, 1976)
• William J. Bennett, The Devaluation of America:  The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children (N.Y.: Summit Books, 1992)
• Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)
• Peter Berger & Richard John Neuhaus, To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Society (1981)
• Harold Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Harv. U. Press, 1983)
• Walter Berns, Taking the Constitution Seriously (Simon & Shuster, 1987)
• Marilyn Boger, For You They Signed: Character Studies from the Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (Rustburg, Va.: The Learning Parent, 2009)
• Daniel Boorstin, The Genius of American Politics (1953)
• Morton Borden (ed.), The Antifederalist Papers (Lansing: Mich. St. U. Pr., 1967)
• Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law (N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1990)
• Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline (N.Y. 1996)
• Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The Colonial Experience (N.Y., 1958)
• Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
• Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia (N.Y., 1986)
• M. E. Bradford, A Worthy Company: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution (1982)
• E. K. Bramsted & J. J. Melhuish (eds.), Western Liberalism: A History in Documents from Locke to Croce (N.Y.: Longman, 1978)
• Nathaniel Branden, Taking Responsibility: Self-Reliance and the Accountable Life
• Jeff Broadwater, George Mason: Forgotten Founder (Univ. N.C. Pr., 2006)
• David L. Brooks (ed.), From Magna Carta to the Constitution: Documents in the Struggle for Liberty (San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1993)
• Orestes Brownson, The American Republic
• James Bryce, The American Commonwealth (1888)
• Gary C. Bryner & Noel B. Reynolds, Constitutionalism and Rights (SUNY, 1987)
• Patrick J. Buchanan, The Death of the West:  How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (N.Y., 2002)
• James M. Buchanan & Gordon Tullock, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundation of Constitutional Democracy (Ann Arbor: U. Mich. Press, 1962)
• Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
• James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism (N.Y.: John Day, 1964)

C

• Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (N.Y.: W. W. Norton, 1979)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Constitution of the Church and State
• James Feinmore Cooper, The American Democrat
• Norman Cousins (ed.), “In God We Trust”: the Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers (N.Y., 1958)
• Maurice Cranston, The Noble Savage: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1754-1762 (U. Chic. Pr., 1991)

D

• Donald Davidson, The Attack on Leviathan
• Betrand de Jouvenel, Sovereignty
• Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America
• The Political Writings of John Dickinson, 1764-1774 (N.Y.: DaCapo, 1970)
• Robert B. Dishman, Bruke and Paine on Revolution and the Rights of Man (N.Y., 1971)

E

• John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution: The Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Baker Books, 1987)
• T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (REPEAT)
• Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Knopf, 2000)
• James W. Ely, Jr., The Guardian of Every Other Right:  A Constitutional History of Property Rights (N.Y.: Oxford U. Pr., 1992)

F

• Max Ferrand, The Framing of the Constitution (Yale, 1913)
• Adam Ferguson, Essay on the History of Civil Society
• Milton Friedman, Free to Choose
• Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: U. Chi. Press, 1962)

G

• Ralph Henry Gabriel, The Course of American Democratic Thought (N.Y.: Ronald Pr., 1940)
• Bryan Garsten, Representative Government and Popular Sovereignty
• Robert P. George, In Defense of Natural Law (Oxford Univ. Pr., 1999)
• Hugh Blair Grigsby, The Virginia Convention of 1776 (N.Y., 1969)
• Richard M. Gummere, The American Colonial Mind and the Classical Tradition (Cambridge, Mass., 1963)
• G. H. Gutteridge, English Whiggism and the American Revolution (Berkeley, 1942)
• Kevin R. C. Gutzman, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution

H

• Jurgen Habermas, Legitimation Crisis (Th. McCarthy tr., Boston: Beacon Pr., 1973)
• Selected Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton (Wash. AEI, 1985)
• Hamilton, Jay and Madison, The Federalist Papers (1788)  (Willmoore Kendall & George Carey, ed., 19–)
• Friederich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: U. of Chi. Press, 1944)
• Friederich A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (Chicago: U. of Chi. Press, 1988)
• Friederich A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: U. of Chi. Press, 1960)
• Kevin J. Hayes, The Mind of a Patriot: Patrick Henry and the World of Ideas (Charlottesville: U. Va. Press 2008)
• C. William Hill, Jr., The Political Theory of John Taylor of Caroline (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1977)
• Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (N.Y., 2007)
• Robert H. Horwitz (ed.), The Moral Foundations of the American Republic (Gambler, Ohio: Kenyon Center, 1986)
• Robert Hughes, Culture of Complaint:  The Fraying of America (N.Y., 1993)
• James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (N.Y., 1991)
• James Davison Hunter & Carl Bowman, The State of Disunion:  1996 Survey of American Political Culture (Ivy, Va., 1996)
• James Davison Hunter & Carl Bowman, The Politics of Character: Survey of American Political Culture (Ch’ville, 2000)
• Samuel P. Huntington, American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (Harv. U. Pr., 1981)
• Charles Hyneman & Donald Lutz, eds., American Political Writings during the Founding Era, 1760-1805 (1983)

I
J

• Harry V. Jaffa, How to Think About the Revolution (Durham: Carolina Acad. Press, 1978)
• Harry V. Jaffa, American Conservatism and the American Founding (Durham: Carolina Acad. Press, 1978)

K

• J. M. Kelly, A Short History of Western Legal Theory (Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1992)
• Willmore Kendall, The Conservative Affirmation (Chicago, 1963)
• Willmore Kendall & George Carey, The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition (1970)
• James Kent, Commentaries on American Law (Reprint 1971)
• Charles R. Kesler, Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (N.Y.: The Free Pr., 1987)
• Ralph Ketchum (ed.), The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (N.Y.: New American Library, 1986)
• James Jackson Kilpatrick, The Sovereign States (Regnery, 1957)
• Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind
• Adienne Koch, Power, Morals and the Founding Fathers (N.Y., 1961)

L

• Leonard W. Labaree (ed.), The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (New Haven, 1959)
• Leonard W. Levy, Origins of the Bill of Rights (Yale, 1999)
• Walter Lippman, The Public Philosophy (1965)
• Seymour Martin Lipset, First New Nation
• John Locke, “Political Power” in D.C. Somerwell, Western Civilization: A Course of Selected Reading by Authorities (London: Int’l Univ. Soc’y Cultural Publ., 1952) pp. 177-84

M

• Thomas Babington Macaulay, letters to H. S. Randall (“All Sail and No Anchor”)
• The Forging of American Federalism: Selected Writings of James Madison (N.Y.: Harper Torchbooks, 1965)
• Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Times
• Alf J. Mapp, Jr., The Faiths of Our Fathers: What America’s Founders Really Believed (N.Y.; Fall River Press, 2003)
• David Mayer, The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson
• David Mayer, The Intellectual Foundations of American Constitionalism
• Henry Mayer, A Son of Thunder: Patrick Henry and the American Republic (Ch’ville: Univ. Press of VA, 1991)
• Thomas B. McAffee, Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution and Popular Sovereignty (2000)
• Ted. V. McAllister, Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Vogelin and the Search for a Post Liberal Order (U. Kan., 1996)
• David McCullough, John Adams (N.Y., 2001)
• Forrest McDonald, A Constitutional History of the United States (N.Y.: Franklin Watts, 1982)
• Forrest McDonald, We the People:  The Economic Origins of the Constitution (U. Chic. Pr., 1958)
• Forrest McDonald, E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic (Liberty Pr., 1979)
• Forrest McDonald, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (Univ. Pr. of Kansas, 1985)
• Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1963-1789 (Oxford U. Pr., 2005 rev. ed.)
• John C. Miller, The Origins of the American Revolution (Boston, 1943)
• William Lee Miller, The Business of May Next:  James Madison & the Founding (U. Pr. of Va., 1992)
• James Monroe, The People, The Sovereign (ed. Samuel L. Gouverneur, James River Press, Cumberland, Va. (1987)
• Edmund S. Morgan, Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988)
• Edmund S. Morgan, American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women who Shaped Early America (N.Y.: W W Norton, 2009)
• Richard B. Morris, Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay and the Constitution (N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985)

N

• William E. Nelson and Robert C. Palmer (ed.), Liberty and Community: Constitution and Rights in the Early American Republic (1987)
• Robert A. Nisbet, Conservatism: Dream and Reality (1986)
• Robert A. Nisbet, The Quest for Community (1953)
• Robert A. Nisbet, The Twilight of Authority (1975)

O

• Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays (N.Y.: Basic Books, 1962)
• Marvin Olasky, The Tragedy of American Compassion (Wash, DC: Regnery, 1992)
• Martin Ostwald, From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society and Politics (U. Cal. Pr., 1987)
• William L. O’Neill, Coming Apart:  An Informal History of America in the 1960s (N.Y.: Times Books, 1971)
• José Ortega y Gasset, Revolt of the Masses
• George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

P

• Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) (Richard Hofstadter, ed., Vintage Books 1958)
• George A. Peck, The Political Writings of John Adams
• M. Scott Peck, The Different Drum: Community-Making and Peace (1987)
• Stow Persons, American Minds: A History of Ideas (Henry Holt & Co., 1958)
• Plato, The Republic
• Roscoe Pound, Social Control Through Law (Hamden, Conn: Archon, 1968)

Q
R

• Paul S. Reinsch, English Common Law in the Early American Colonies (1899)
• Jean-Francois Revel, How Democracies Perish
• Carl J. Richard, The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment (Harv. U. Pr., 1994)
• Clinton Rossiter, Conservatism in America (N.Y., 1955)
• Clinton Rossiter, The Political Thought of the American Revolution (N.Y., 1963)
• Clinton Rossiter, Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution (N.Y., 1964)
• Robert Allen Rutland, The Ordeal of the Constitution: The Anti-Federalists and the Ratification Struggle of 1787-1788 (Boston: Northeastern Pr., 1983)
• Claes G. Ryn, Democracy and the Ethical Life (1978)
• Claes G. Ryn, The New Jacobism: Can Democracy Survive (1991)

S

• St. Augustine, The Confessions
• Jeffrey St. John, A Child of Fortune: A Correspondent’s Report on the Ratification of the U. S. Constitution and the Battle for the Bill of Rights (Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, Inc., 1972)
• Jeffrey St. John, Constitutional Journal: A Correspondent’s Report from the Convention of 1787 (Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, Inc., 1987)
• Jean Edward Smith, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation (N.Y., 1996)
• Thomas Sowell, Civil Rights, Rhetoric on Reality (N.Y.: Wm Morrow, 1984)
• Walter Stahr, John Jay: Founding Father (Hambledon & Lon)
• Peter J. Stanlis (ed.), The Best of Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke (Wash., D.C.: Regnery, 1963)
• Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (Chicago: U. of Chic. Pr., 1953)
• Leo Strauss, Liberalism, Ancient and Modern (1968)
• Herbert J. Storing (ed.), The Complete Anti-Federalist (7 volumes) (Chi.: U. Chi. Pr., 1981)
• Herbert J. Storing, What the Anti-Federalists Were For  (Chi.: U. Chi. Pr., 1981)
• Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1873)

T

• J. L. Talmon, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy (1968)
• John Taylor, New Views of the Constitution of the United States (1823) (James McClellan, ed., Wash., D. C.: Regnery, 2000)
• Ferdinand Tönnies, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Leipzig, 1887)

U
V

• W. Van der Weyde (ed.), The Life and Works of Thomas Paine (New Rochelle, N.Y., 1925)
• Peter Viereck, Conservatism Revisited (N.Y., 1949)
• Vogelin, Order and History
• Frederick A. von Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, The Fatal Conceit, The Road to Serfdom

W

• David Walsh, After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom (San Francisco: Harper, 1990)
• George Washington, “Farewell Address”
• Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1948)
• Richard Weaver, The Ethics of Rhetoric (Davis CA: Hermagoras Press, 1953)
• Richard Weaver, Visions of Order The Cultural Crisis of Our Time (Bryn Mawr PA: ISI Press, 1964)
• Gary Wills, Confessions of a Conservative
• Gary Wills, Explaining America: The Federalist (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981)
• Gordon S. Wood, Revolutionary Characters:  What Made the Founders Different (Penguin Press, 2006)
• Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Univ. of North Carolina Press., 1969)
• Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (Vintage-Random, 1991)
• Gordon S. Wood, The American Revolution: A History (Modern Library, 2002)

XYZ

• Blackstone
• Coke
• Kent

Visions of Order

• Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (REPEAT)

Christianity and Culture

• Thomas Bender, Community and Social Change in America (New Brunswick, N.J., 1978)
• Ruth F. Benedict, Patterns of Culture, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961)
• Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (San Francisco: Sierra Club      Books, 1977)
• James Burnham, Suicide of the West: The Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism (1985)
• Theodore Caplow, Howard M. Bahr, Bruce A. Chadwick, Reuben Hill and Margaret Holmes Williamson, Middletown Families: Fifty Years of Change and Continuity (U. Minn. Pr., 1982)
• Christopher Dawson, Religion and the Modern State (London, 1935)
• Christopher Dawson, Religion and Culture (1948)
• T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, Idea of Christian Society
• Jeffrey Hart, Acts of Recovery: Essays on Culture and Politics (Hanover NH: U. Pr. Of New England 1989)
• David Kelly, Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis for Benevolence
• Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1979)
• Christopher Lasch, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (N.Y. Norton, 1991)
• C. S. Lewis, Abolition of Man (1965)
• C. S. Lewis,
• C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1960)
• Robert Lynd & Helen Lynd, Middletown: A Study in American Culture (N.Y.: Harcourt Brace, 1929)
• Robert Lynd & Helen Lynd, Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (N.Y.: Harcourt Brace, 1937)
• Alastair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (Notre Dame, Ind; Univ. ND Press, 1981)
• Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island
• Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of The American People
• Michael Novak, The American Vision
• David Riseman, with Reuel Denny and Nathan Glazer, The Lonely Crowd (Yale U Pr 1950)
• Wilhelm Röpke, Social Crisis of Our Times
• Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
• Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776)
• Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions (N.Y.: Wm. Morrow & Co., 1987)
• W. Lloyd Warner & Paul S. Lund, The Social Life of a Modern Community (1942)

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