ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Books > American Founding Fathers and Freedom in History
- Conquests and Cultures: An International History
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Basic Books
Author: Thomas Sowell
Country: United States
- The triumphant final volume of Sowell's trilogy on culture (see also "Race and Culture" and "Migrations and Cultures"). Sowell chronicles the impact of historical events on world cultures. (Paperback, 1998, 512 p., Laissez Faire price $11.95)
- Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution
Source: Amazon.com/Penguin USA
Author: Benson Bobrick
Country: United States
- A novelistic historical narrative of the American Revolution, especially in regards to George Washington and Benedict Arnold. (pb, 560p., 1998, Amazon price: $12.76)
- Common Sense (Penguin Classics)
Source: Amazon.com/Penguin Books
Author: Thomas Paine
Country: United States
- In his most famous pamphlet (the most famous pamphlet by anyone, anywhere?), Paine argues for Revolution as the only sensible alternative to British rule from afar. (pb, Amazon price: $6.36)
- The Debate on the Constitution
Source: Amazon.com/Penguin Books
Author: Bernard Bailyn (Editor)
Country: United States
- A treasure of "Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification." Bailyn captures the spirit and the substance of the intense battle over the future of the American Republic. (2 vol. hc, 1993, Amazon price: $24.50 each)
- Radicalism of the American Revolution
Source: Amazon.com/Random House
Author: Gordon S. Wood
Country: United States
- Wood argues that the American war for independence was, indeed, very radical, changing the nature of colonial society and planting the seeds for an egalitarian and commercial society.
(pb, 1991, Amazon price: $12.80)
- The Declaration of Independence: A Study of in the History of Political Ideas
Source: Amazon.com/Random House
Author: Carl Becker
Country: United States
- First published in 1922, Becker's effort is a classic study on the Declaration in all of its aspects: philosophical, political, and literary. (pb, 1958, Amazon price: $8.00)
- Notes on the State of Virginia
Source: Amazon.com/University of North Carolina Press
Author: Thomas Jefferson, William Peden (Editor)
Country: United States
- Includes the text of Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia," of course, but its modern notes also help elucidate the issues at hand and fill in some historical details. (pb, 342p., 1996, Amazon price: $11.96)
- From Magna Carta to the Constitution: Documents in the Struggle for Liberty
Source: Laissez Faire Books
Author: David L. Brooks, ed.
Country: United States
- Original texts of the English Magna Carta, Petition of Right, Agreement of the Free People of England, the Bill of Rights and the American Mayflower Compact, Declaration of the Stamp Act Congress, Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and the Constitution (Paperback, 104 p., Laissez Faire price $9.95).
- How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Basic Books
Author: Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, Jr.
Country: United States
- How did a relatively few people -- those in what we call "the West" -- escape grinding poverty into sustained economic growth and material well-being? (Paperback, 1986, 353 p., Laissez Faire price $14.95).
- Guns, Germs and Steel
Source: Laissez Faire Books/W.W. Norton
Author: Jared Diamond
Country: United States
- A Pulitzer Prize winning study of the last half million years: the rise of homo sapiens and the development of civilization. Noted for its confirmation -- despite the usual political correctness of the author -- of many libertarian hypotheses concerning societal evolution. (Paperback, 1999, 339 pp., LFB price $14.95)
- Migrations and Cultures: A World View
Source: Laissez Faire Books/Basic Books
Author: Thomas Sowell
Country: United States
- The second volume of Sowell's trilogy on culture (see also "Race and Culture" and "Conquests and Cultures"). Why some cultures are healthier, more prosperous, and more dynamic than others. (Hardback, 1996, 512 p., Laissez Faire price $14.95)
- The Killing of History
Source: Laissez Faire/Free Press
Author: Keith Windschuttle
Country: United States
- How contempt for truth and objectivity in historical studies is destroying the field. Hardback, 1997, 298p., $24.95 from Laissez Faire Books.
- The Triumph of Liberty
Source: Free Press/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Jim Powell
Country: United States
- A Free-Market.Net Freedom Book of the Month. "The Triumph of Liberty" is a tour de force covering 2,000 years of the history of freedom through the lives of those who advocated it, fought for it, and sometimes died for it. Free Press 2000, hardcover, 575 pp., $22.95 from Laissez Faire Books.
- A Force More Powerful
Source: St. Martin's Press/Laissez Faire Books
Author: Peter Ackerman and Jack Du Vall
Country: United States
- An inspiring history of civil disobedience as the tool for social change, from pre-Revolutionary Russia to post-Intifada Palestine. St. Martin's Press 2000, hardcover, 544 p., $19.95 from Laissez Faire.
- Democracy: the god that failed
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Country: United States
- "This sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty." (2001)
- The Voluntary City
Source: Independent Institute/Laissez Faire Books
Author: David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, Alexander Tabarrok (Eds.)
Country: United States
- Book investigates the history of private provision of social services, the for-profit provision of urban infrastructure and community governance, and the growing privatization of residential life in the United States. (Pub. 5/02; trade paper; 462 pp.; LFB price $18.95)
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