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BOOKS
-- TOP 10 RECOMMENDATIONS
RANKING BASED ON LATEST SALES FIGURES
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COMMON SENSE: The Case Against An Out-Of-Control Government (Inspired By Thomas Paine) -- Glenn Beck. Thomas Paine, was an ordinary man who changed the course of history by penning Common Sense, the concise 1776 masterpiece in which, through extraordinarily straightforward and indisputable arguments, he encouraged his fellow citizens to take control of America's future -- and, ultimately, her freedom.
Nearly two and a half centuries later, those very freedoms once again hang in the balance. And now, Glenn Beck revisits Paine's powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government's easy solutions, two-part monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country.
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CATASTROPHE -- Dick Morris. It's time to take back our country. Now. It's that simple. It's that urgent. So begins Dick Morris and Eileen McGann's latest and most important book. They say that we must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or our security. At a time when we needed a pragmatic centrist to lead us out of recession, we got a doctrinaire socialist who wants to use the crisis to put the government in charge of the economy and enact European socialism here in the United States. Cars, banks-what's next? He will keep at it until Washington governs every major business in America and sets all our salaries. It's a catastrophe. |
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LIBERTY AND TYRANNY:
A Conservative Manifesto --
Mark Levin. Conservative beliefs in individual freedoms do in the end stand for liberty for all Americans, while liberal dictates lead to the breakdown of civilized society -- in short, tyranny. Looking back to look to the future, Levin writes "conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are our founding principles." And in a series of powerful essays, Levin lays out how conservatives can counter the liberal corrosion that has filtered into every timely issue affecting our daily lives, from the economy to health care, global warming, immigration, and more -- and illustrates how change, as seen through the conservative lens, is always prudent, and always an enhancement to individual freedom.
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THE 5000 YEAR LEAP --
W Cleon Skousen. How could the 19th Century begin with Americans traveling by horse-drawn carts and sailboats, just as they did in 2000 B.C., communicating by quill and ink, as they did in ancient Egypt, wearing clothes that had to be hand loomed, as in ancient Sumeria, and yet end the 19th century with automobiles, telegraphs, telephones, steam ships, electricity, mechanized factories, and the airplane about to be invented? How could untold freedom and prosperity, advances in the arts, medicine and the sciences come about so rapidly -- a 5,000 year leap? The incredible story of America's most spectacularly advancing century, that changed the whole world without foreign aid or socialism, is told with eye-opening insight and wisdom. |
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LIBERAL
FASCISM: The Secret History of the American Left, From
Mussolini to the Politics Of Meaning -- Jonah Goldberg. Contrary
to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists
(hence the term “National socialism”). They
believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. They
confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public
education. They purged the church from public policy,
promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted
the authority of the state into every nook and cranny
of daily life. Do these striking parallels mean that
today’s liberals are genocidal maniacs, intent
on conquering the world and imposing a new racial order?
Not at all. Yet it is hard to deny that modern progressivism
and classical fascism shared the same intellectual roots. |
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ATLAS SHRUGGED -- Ayn Rand. Ayn RandThe most important event of the past two centuries is the rise of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution — a social revolution that has radically transformed human life for the better. Free markets and industrialization have produced a previously unimagined wealth, which is enjoyed not only by captains of industry but by the common man, who is able to afford luxuries — large homes, automobiles, air travel, everything down to his caffe latte at the corner coffee shop — on a scale that could not even have been conceived in earlier centuries. In this book (written in 1957), Ayn Rand explores a world where government begins to crowd out the private sector -- much like they are today in Obama's White House. What if the artists, the intellectuals, and the employers all respond to liberal tyranny by suddenly going on strike and decided they would no longer provide society with all its riches any longer? |
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SAVING FREEDOM: We Can Stop America's Slide Into Socialism -- Senator Jim DeMint. The United States—the world’s great bastion of freedom—is sliding toward socialism. Recent high-profile bailouts show the walls between government and the private sector are getting thinner each day. Federal control now extends in various ways to education, healthcare, financial markets, real estate, businesses, and religion. And as out-of-control government spending and debt increase accordingly, America is drained of the economic and political strength its people fought and worked so hard to achieve. But it isn’t too late to save the land of the free. DeMint’s illuminates key principles of freedom and how they are being compromised by big government. More important, he lays out a complete action plan to reclaim America’s freedom based on legislation that would reduce debt, fix Social Security, and provide a tax credit for every family to buy health insurance. |
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BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY: A Memior -- Bill
O'Reilly. In
his most intimate book yet, O'Reilly goes back
in time to examine the people, places, and experiences
that launched him on his journey from being a working-class
kid to an immensely influential television personality
and bestselling author. Readers will learn how
his traditional outlook was formed in the crucible
of his family, his neighborhood, his church, and
his schools, and how his views on America's proper
role in the world emerged from covering four wars
on five continents over three-plus decades as a
news correspondent. What will delight his many
fans and surprise many others is the humor and
self-deprecation with which he handles one of his
core subjects: himself, and just how O'Reilly became
O'Reilly. |
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THE
FORGOTTEN MAN: A New History of the Great Depression
-- Amity Shlaes. Shlaes, a prominent
conservative economics journalist, considers why
a decade of government intervention ameliorated
but never tamed the Great Depression. With vitality
uncommon for an economics history, Shlaes chronicles
the projects of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt
as well as these projects' effect on those who
paid for them. Reminding readers that the reputedly
do-nothing Hoover pulled hard on the fiscal levers
(raising tariffs, increasing government spending),
Shlaes nevertheless emphasizes that his enthusiasm
for intervention paled against the ebullient FDR's
glee in experimentation. |
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TOTAL
MONEY MAKEOVER: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
-- Dave Ramsey. Only read this book if
you're tired of the "normal" everyday cycle
of being in debt - being slave to your lenders. Whether
it's credit cards, student loans, car loans, mortgages,
etc. Dave Ramsey lays out a plan to break the cycle,
change your family tree so your children don't think
living paycheck to paycheck and owing huge amounts
of debts is normal. As Dave puts it, if that's normal
then "be weird." Get out of debt and live
in TRUE Financial Peace -- it will change your life. |
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