What to read to hold on to freedom: the best books, in my opinion, from a variety of fields are here: regularly and through my getglue account.
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1. Murray Rothbard “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”
2. James Randi “Flim Flam”
3. Ben Goldacre “Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, & Big Pharma Flacks”
4. Ayn Rand “The Virtue of Selfishness”
5. Richard Dawkins “The Selfish Gene”
6. Ludwig von Mises “Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis”
7. Ayn Rand, Greenspan, et. al “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”
8. FA Hayek “Prices & Production”
9. Adam Smith “The Wealth of Nations”
10. Ludwig von Mises “Human Action”
11. Harry Houdini “The Miracle Mongers: An Expose”
12. Karl Popper “The Open Society and It’s Enemies”
13. Carl Sagan “The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”
14. Thomas Henry Huxley “Lectures and Essays”
15. P.T. Barnum “Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits & Deceivers Generally, In All Ages”
16. P.T. Barnum “The Art of Money Getting, Or Golden Rules for Making Money”
17. Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK GUIDE)
18. Keith Allman “Financial Simulation Modeling in Excel”
19. John Brust “The Practice of Neural Science”
20. Thomas Woods, Jr. “Meltdown” (A Free Market Look at the Housing Crisis)
21. J.S. Mill “A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive”
22. Lysander Spooner “No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority”
24. Albert Einstein “Relativity: The Special and General Theory”
25. Robert Nozick “Anarchy, State, and Utopia”
26. William James “Essays in Radical Empiricism”
27. Ayn Rand “For the New Intellectual”
28. Thomas Sowell “The Housing Boom and Bust”
29. Isaac Newton “Opticks”
30. Isaac Newton “Principa Mathematica”
31. Ayn Rand “Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology”
32. Alexis Thomson “Manual of Surgery” (all volumes)
33. Samuel Butler “Evolution, Old & New”
34. Thomas Henry Huxley “William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood”
35. Fritz Muller “Facts and Arguments for Darwin”
36. Joseph Maclise “Surgical Anatomy”
37. The Works of Hippocrates
38. James Clerk Maxwell “Five of Maxwell’s Papers”
39. Glenn Larrabee “Forensic Neuropsychology”
40. Max Planck “The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory”
41. Wilhelm Wundt “Outlines of Psychology”
42. Galen “On the Natural Faculties”
43. Galen “On Science”
44. Antonin Scalia “Scalia’s Dissents”
45. Michael Faraday “Experimental Researches in Electricity” (All Volumes)
46. Archimedes “Geometrical Solutions Derived From Mechanics”
47. Lewis Carroll “Feeding the Mind”
48. Thomas Henry Huxley “The Darwinian Hypothesis”
49. Rene Descartes “A Discourse of Method…”
50. Sir David Brewster “The Martyrs of Science”
51. Thomas Henry Huxley “Time and Life”
52. Michael Aminoff “Clinical Neurology”
52. Lucien Poincare “The New Physics and its Evolution”
53. Francis Bacon “The Advancement of Learning”
54. Lewis Carroll “The Game of Logic”
55. J.M. Charcot “Lectures on Localization in Diseases of the Brain”
56. Robert Means Lawrence “Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery”
57. Lewis Carroll “Symbolic Logic”
58. Joe Navarro “The Psychology of Body Language”
59. Marc Gobe “Emotional Branding”
60. Albert Einstein “Sidelights on Relativity”
61. Charles Darwin “The Descent of Man”
62. Bertrand Russell “Proposed Roads to Freedom”
63. Ayn Rand “The Virtue of Selfishness”
64. Elisha Gray “Electricity and Magnetism”
65. Desiderius Erasmus “The Praise of Folly”
66. William Edwards Henderson “An Elementary Study of Chemistry”
67. Charles Darwin “The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex” (All Volumes)
68. Thomas Sowell “Dismantling America”
69. Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson “Manual of Surgery” (All Volumes)
70. Joseph Bell “A Manual of the Operation of Surgery for the Use of Senior Students”
71. Thomas Henry Huxley “Notes on the Resemblances and Differences in the Structure and Development of the Brain in Man and Apes”
72. Ayn Rand “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”
73. William James “Meaning of Truth”
74. John Bagnell Bury “A History of Freedom of Thought”
75. Hugo Munsterberg “Psychology and Industrial Efficiency”
76. Bertrand Russell “The Analysis of Mind”
77. Henry Raymond Rogers “New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces”
78. Nikola Tesla “Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency”
79. Sherry Seethaler “Lies, Damned Lies, and Science”
80. Voltaire “Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary”
81. Ayn Rand “Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”
82. A.C. Seward “Darwin and Modern Science”
83. Ayn Rand “Philosophy: Who Needs It?”
84. G.T. Bettany “Life of Charles Darwin”
85. Sir James Knowles “The Legend of King Arthur and his Knights”
86. Thomas Paine “Common Sense”
87. Charles Darwin “Letters of” and “More Letters of”
88. David Hume “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”
89. “Writings of Abraham Lincoln” (several volumes at Amazon, shows the REAL Lincoln)
90. ALSO Thomas J. DiLorenzo “The Real Lincoln” (There is so much wrong headed fluff concerning Lincoln as a great man, HE WAS NOT! HE WAS A TYRANT! Slavery sucked yes but all he wanted was to have power over the South and anyone who opposed him. There are other books debunking the myths and hero worship of “Honest Abe” I will post them too)
91. Karl Marx “Das Kapital” (we MUST KNOW THE ENEMY, READ THIS CRITICALLY AS YOU WOULD ANY OTHER BOOK. IT IS GOOD THOUGH TO KNOW HOW THE ENEMIES OF FREEDOM THINK NO MATTER HOW DELUDED THEY ARE!)
92. Friderick Bastiat “The Law”
93. Jefferson Davis “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government”
94. Friedrich Nietzsche “We Philologists”
95. Antoine Lavoisier “Elements of Chemistry…”
96. Edward Ellis “Thomas Jefferson: A Character Sketch”
97. Voltaire “Candide”
98. Edward Gibbon “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (All Volumes)
99. Martin Luther “Concerning Christian Liberty”
100. Erasmus Darwin “Zoonomia” (All Volumes)
101. John Esten Cooke “A Life of General Robert E. Lee”
102. Ayn Rand “Anthem”
103. Ayn Rand “The Fountainhead”
104. Ayn Rand “Atlas Shrugged”
105. Thomas Hobbes “Leviathan”
106. Margaret Alice Murray “The Witch Cult in Western Europe, A Study in Anthropology”
107. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Faust”
108. Ron Paul “End the Fed”
109. Kenelm Winslow “The Home Medical Library” (All Volumes)
110. “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”
111. St. Thomas Aquinas “Summa Theologica” (All Volumes)
112. Charles Darwin “Effects of Cross and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom”
113. Mark Levin “Liberty and Tyranny”
114. Sir Walter Scott “Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft” (again, good as a study of the enemy modes of thought, in this case religious hysteria)
114. William Roscoe Thayer “George Washington”
115. Charles Darwin “The Voyage of the Beagle”
116. Michael Thomsett “The Short Put”
117. Patrick Toomey “The Road to Prosperity”
118. Gustave Le Bon “The Psychology of Revolution”
119. Michael Savage “Trickle Up Poverity”
120. Samuel McHarry “The Practical Distiller”
121. Voltaire “Letters on England”
122. Karl Marx “Selected Essays” (Again, know your enemy)
123. Matthew Arnold “Culture and Anarchy”
124. Frederic Bastiat “What is Free Trade?…”
125. Giovanni Gentile “The Doctrine of Fascism” (Know your enemy!)
126. Vladimir Lenin “A Letter to American Workingmen” (the beast of the Iron Curtain himself, evil and evil ideology, must know the delusions of the anti-freedom crowd to destroy their most evil of ideologies! besides the fact that so much of Marx does not stand up to any reason or logic… 300 million dead from marxism and counting, this is a conservative estimate by the way!)
127. Dinesh D’Souza “The Roots of Obama’s Rage”
128. Frederic Bastiat “Essays on Political Economy”
129. Mark Magnacca “So What?: How to Communicate…”
130. Voltaire “Zadig: or the Book of Fate”
131. W. Edward Olmstead “Options for the Beginner”
132. Charles Darwin “Volcanic Islands”
133. Jamie Turner “How to Make Money With Social Media”
134. Charles Darwin “The Foundations of the Origin of Species: Essays…”
135. Juliette Powell “33 Million People in the Room”
136. F.A. Hayek “The Road to Serfdom”
137. Jack Huekels “Advanced Chemistry”
138. Jon Luther “What’s Your Strategic Heartbeat?”
139. Lewis Carroll “Rhyme? And Reason?”
140. Gen. Ulysses S Grant “Personal Memoirs” (All Volumes)
141. Sir Isaac Newton “Observations Upon the Prophecies of…”
142. Albert Blaisdell “A Practical Physiology”
143. Bertrand Russell “The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism” (great insight into the enemy’s psychology)
144. Harry D. Kitson “How to Use Your Mind: A Psychology of Study”
145. Sandy Allgeier “The Personal Credibility Factor”
146. Sun Tzu “The Art of War”
147. Blaise Pascal “Pascal’s Pensees”
148. Rudolf Steiner “An Outline of Occult Science” (alchemy is interesting to study but not as a science)
149. James Bryant Conant “Organic Syntheses”
150. Thomas Henry Huxley “On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals”
151. Charles Darwin “On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection”
152. “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”
153. Plato “Laws” (understand Plato’s authoritarian BS as the father of Marx’s authoritarian BS, this is expounded more on in Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and its Enemies”)
154. H.A. Lorentz “The Einstein Theory of Relativity”
155. Brooks Adams “The Theory of Social Revolutions”
156. “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin”
157. J.S. Mill “Utilitarianism”
158. Isaac Newton “The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms”
159. J. J. Rousseau “A Discourse Upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind” (best understood again as an authoritarian influence upon Marx)
160. Rudolf Schmid “The theories of Darwin and their relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality”
161. Charles Lyell “The Students Elements of Geology”
162. William James “The Principles of Psychology”
163. T.H. Huxley “Discourses: Biological and Geological Essays”
164. William James “Pragmatism”
165. Mark Twain “On the Decay of the Art of Lying”
166. Henry Brodribb Irving “A Book of Remarkable Criminals”
167. William Henry Pyle “The Science of Human Nature”
168. Charles Darwin “Geological Observations on South America”
169. Charles Darwin “Coral Reefs - Complete”
170. Lillian Moller Gilbreth “The Psychology of Management”
171. Robert E. Gunther “The Truth About Personal Performance”
172. George John Ramones “Darwin, and after Darwin…”
173. Bertrand Russell “Mysticism, Logic, and Other Essays”
174. William Thomas “Sex and Society”
175. Charles Darwin “The Power of Movement in Plants”
176. Thucydides “The History of the Peloponnesian War”
177. John Locke “Second Treatise of Government”
178. John Locke “On Politics and Education”
179. Charles Darwin “Insectivorous Plants”
180. Irvin S Cobb “Cobb’s Anatomy”
181. Sir Winston Churchill “Liberalism and the Social Problem”
182. Charles Darwin “The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication”
183. Karl Marx “Revolution and Counter-Revolution” (necessary to understand the animals and their mentally ill, evil masters that comprise the Marxist hordes)
184. George Clinton, et. al “The Anti-Federalist Papers”
185. Santiago Ramon y Cajal “Advice for a Young Investigator”
186. Edmund Burke “The Works of Edmund Burke” (to understand the “conservative” soul)
187. Joel Benton “The Life of P.T. Barnum”
188. William James “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”
