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Prime Reading

Preparation for work that may affect the fate of humanity requires not just technical studies, but a broad, general background in many fields, and certain basic skills, to provide a social, philosophic, and historical perspective.

Basic skills

Norman Lewis, How to Read Better and Faster, New York: Crowell, 1958, 1990.
Rudolf F. Flesch, How to Write, Speak and Think More Effectively, New York: Harper, 1960, 1994.
Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972, 1997.
William Strunk & E.B. White, Elements of Style, New York: Macmillan, 1979, 1995.
Joseph D. Novak & D. Bob Gowin, Learning How to Learn, New York: Cambridge, 1984.
Wayne A. Wickelgren, How to Solve Problems, San Francisco: Freeman, 1974.
David R. Beasley, How to Use a Research Library, New York: Oxford, 1988.
Jean Dane, How to Use a Law Library, Sweet & Maxwell.
Robert A. Day, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1988.

The Classics

Read most of the works in the set, A Great Books of the Western World,

in order.

Philosophy and Religion

The Comparative Study Bible, Grand Rapids: Zonderan, 1984.
Willis Barnstone, The Other Bible, New York: Harpercollins, 1984.
Al-Qur'an (Koran), tr. Ahmed Ali, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1984.
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945.
E.D. Klemke, R. Hollinger & A.D. Kline eds, Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of Science, Buffalo: Prometheus, 1988.
S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978, 1991.
A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic, New York: Dover, 1952; Foundations of Empirical Knowledge, New York: St. Martins, 1969.
Otto Neurath (Ed.), Rudolf Carnap (Ed.), Charles F. W. Morris (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 1955.
Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be, New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1952.
D.T. Suzuki, Manual of Zen Buddhism, New York: Grove, 1960.

History, Biography and Futurics

A Arnold Toynbee, Study of History, Vol. 1-10 abr. D.C. Somervell, New York: Oxford, 1947-57.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Frontier, Austin: U. Tex. Press, 1964.
Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1954, 1989.
Bertrand de Jouvenel, The Art of Conjecture, New York: Basic Books, 1967.

Ecology and Arcology

Paul & Anne Ehrlich, The Population Explosion, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Donella Meadows et al., Limits to Growth, New York: Universe Press, 1972, 1977.
Garrett De Bell ed, The New Environmental Handbook, San Francisco: Friends of the Earth, 1980.
George Dantzig & Thomas Saaty, Compact City, San Francisco: Freeman, 1973.
Paolo Soleri, Arcology: The City in the Image of Man, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969.
C.R. Chapman & D. Morrison, Cosmic Catastrophes, New York: Plenum, 1989.
E.O. Wilson ed, Biodiversity, Washington, DC: Nat. Acad. Press, 1988.

Government, Law and International Relations

Clarence Streit, Atlantic Union Now, Washington, DC: Freedom & Union, 1962.
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations, New York: Knopf, 1967.
Ephraim London ed, World of Law, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.

Mathematics and Logic

George Polya, How to Solve It, Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1945, 1988.
Rudolf Carnap, Foundations of Logic and Mathematics, Chicago: U. Chicago Press, 1939.
Stephen C. Kleene, Mathematical Logic, New York: John Wiley, 1967.
Martin Davis, Computability and Unsolvability, New York: Dover, 1982.
Paul Halmos, Naive Set Theory, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1974, 1987, and A Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1974.
William R. Scott, Group Theory, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
Saunders MacLane & Garrett Birkhoff, Algebra, New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Steven A. Gaal, Point-Set Topology, New York: Academic, 1964.
Michel Gondran & Michel Minoux, Graphs and Algorithms, New York: Wiley, 1984.
M.M. Rao, Probability Theory with Applications, New York: Academic, 1984.
Robert D. Luce, Games and Decisions, New York: Wiley, 1957.
David E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning, Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1989.
Trenchard More, collected papers on array theory, Cambridge: IBM, 1978-87. Book hopefully being written.
Donald Gross & Carl M. Harris, Fundamentals of Queueing Theory, New York: Wiley, 1974.
Wayne Lee, Experimental Design and Analysis, San Francisco: Freeman, 1975.

Cybernetics and Information Theory

John R. Pierce, An Introduction to Information Theory, New York: Dover, 1980.
Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley.
Bernard P. Zeigler, Theory of Modeling and Simulation, New York: Wiley, 1976.
Ernest Davis, Representations of Commonsense Knowledge, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1990.
Patrick Winston, Artificial Intelligence, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1984, 1992.
E. Goles, Neural and Automata Networks, Boston: Kluwer Acad., 1990.
Judea Pearl, Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer Problem-Solving, Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1984.

Physics, Cosmology and Electronics

H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, H. Minkowski & H. Weyl, The Principle of Relativity, New York: Dover, 1950.
Richard Feynman, The Theory of Fundamental Processes, New York: Addison-Wesley, 1961.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu & Franck Laloë, Quantum Mechanics, A Vol. 1, A Vol. 2, New York: Wiley, 1977.
H.P. Robertson & Thomas W. Noonan, Relativity and Cosmology, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1969.
C.W. Misner, K.S. Thorne & J.A. Wheeler, Gravitation, San Francisco: Freeman, 1973.
Stephen W. Hawking & G.F.R. Ellis, The Large-Scale Structure of Space-Time, New York: Cambridge, 1973.
M.B. Green, J.H. Schwarz & E. Witten, Superstring Theory, New York: Cambridge, Vol 1&2 1987, Vol 3 1990.
Richard E. Sonntag, Introduction to Thermodynamics: Classical and Statistical, New York: Wiley, 1982.
D.K. Arrowsmith & C.M. Place, An Introduction to Dynamical Systems, New York: Cambridge, 1990.
David Pines, The Many-Body Problem, New York: W.A. Benjamin, 1962.
Vladimir Z. Kresin, Fundamentals of Superconductivity, New York: Plenum, 1990.

Molecular Physics, Chemistry and Biology

Theodore Buyana, Molecular Physics, New York: World Scientific, 1992.
Geoffrey C. Maitland et al., Intermolecular Forces, New York: Oxford, 1981.
Forrest Carter ed, Molecular Electronic Devices, New York: Marcel Dekker, A I 1982, A II 1987.
David L. Beveridge & William L. Jorgensen eds, Computer Simulation of Chemical and Biomolecular Systems, New York: NY Acad. Sci., 1986.
Reed & Kirk ed, Nanostructure Physics and Fabrication, New York: Academic, 1989.
F.D. Warner et al., Cell Movement, A Vol. 1, A Vol. 2, New York: Wiley-Liss, 1989.
Heinrich, Bauer & Kuchar ed, Physics and Technology of Submicron Structures, New York: Springer, 1988.

Technology and Space

K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation, New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1986.
Gerard K. O'Neill, The High Frontier, New York: Morrow, 1977, 1989.

Economics, Management, Society and Cognition

Everett M. Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations, New York: Free Press, 1983.
Leo Schneiderman, The Psychology of Social Change, New York: Human Sci. Press, 1988.
Fred Hirsch, Social Limits to Growth, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1976.
Paul Samuelson, Foundations of Economic Analysis, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1983.
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegan, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1971, 1978.
Michael I. Posner, Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.

Corruption and Political Dysfunction

Rodney Stich, Defrauding America, 1994, Diablo Western Press, Inc., PO Box 5, Alamo, CA 94507, 800- 247-7389, $27.25 Ppd. Insider exposes massive federal corruption, corporate raiding, looting of savings and loans, drug smuggling, bankruptcy fraud, coverups of safety violations, and JFK assassination, particularly involving CIA and Justice Department.
Terry Reed & John Cummings, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA, 1994, Shapolsky Publishers Inc, 136 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011, 212/633-2022. Details of corruption involving the CIA, Bush and Clinton.
William Greider, Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy, 1992, Simon & Schuster. Describes faltering of the political process.
Donald L. Bartlett & James B. Steele, America: What Went Wrong?, 1992, Andrews & McMeel, 4900 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64112. Superficial, but some useful points.
Gary H. Kah, En Route to Global Occupation, 1992, Huntington House Publishers, POB 53788, Lafayette, LA 70505. Superficial, but examines the global level.

Abuses of Constitution, Civil Rights

James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, 1994, St. Martin's Press, New York. Survey of official abuses, but neglects corporate abuses and the ultimate causes and solutions to both.
Eugene Schroder, Constitution: Fact or Fiction, 1995, PO Box 89, Campo, CO 81029, 719/787-9958, $14.95. Exposition of Emergency Rule, established March 9, 1933, which continues to this day.
Walter Karp, Liberty Under Siege, 1993, Franklin Square, New York. Survey of some of the more obvious erosions of constitutional rights, but superficial treatment of the causes.
Ron Cole, Sinister Twilight: A Tragedy Near Waco, and a Sinister Twilight in America, 1993, Unlimited Thought Bookstore, 5525 Blanco Rd. #112, San Antonio, TX 78216, $15.00 Ppd.
Jack DeVault, The Waco Whitewash, 1994. Rescue Press, 8048 Midcrown #11, San Antonio, TX 78218, $20.00 Ppd. Abuses by the federal judicial system.
Bud & Ruth Schultz, It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America, 1989, U. Of California Press, Berkeley.
Morton Halperin et al., The Lawless State: The Crimes of U.S. Intelligence Agencies, 1976, Penguin, New York. Survey of results of Church Committee Report and similar abuses.
Frank J. Donner, The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence System, 1980, Knopf, New York.
Martin Cannon, The Controllers: Mind Control and Its Role in the 'Alien' Abduction Phenomenon, 1990, 1996, 8211 Owensmouth Av #206, Canoga Park, CA 91304. $6.00. Survey of mind-control experimentation by U.S. Government.
Julianne McKinney, Microwave Harassment & Mind- Control Experimentation, Electronic Surveillance Project, Association of National Security Alumni, PO Box 13625, Silver Spring, MD 20911-3625, 301/608- 0143. $5.00. Exposé of mind-control experimentation by insider.
James M. Collier & Kenneth F. Collier, Votescam: the Stealing of America, 1992, Victoria House Press, 67 Wall St #2411, New York, NY 10005. $10.00. Report of investigations of how computerized elections are rigged. A manual for investigating vote fraud.
Gerry Spence, With Justice for None, 1989, Penguin, New York. Abuses of the legal system.

Coverups and Secret Government

Anthony C. Sutton, America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones, 1986, Liberty House Press, 2027 Iris, Billings, MT 59102. Traces historical roots of major members of U.S. branch of Shadow Government, but doesn't cover decision- making structure.
John Coleman, Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Committee of Three Hundred, 1992, America West Publishers, PO Box 2208, Carson City, NV 89702. Introduces major players in global Shadow Government, but lacks substantiation and may have misread the roles of some of them. Makes case that rule is by 300 major families, a third of them British. Traces their control of almost every sector of society, and shows that much of their money comes from control of drug market, going back to China opium trade. But doesn't cover present executive structure.
Burton Hersh, Old Boys : The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA, 1992, Scribners, New York. Traces the emergence of the CIA as executor of objectives of the ruling elite and examines their deficiencies.
Loch K. Johnson, America's Secret Power: the CIA in a democratic society, 1989, Oxford, New York A sanitized depictionof this agency.
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, The CIA and American Democracy, 1989, Yale, New Haven. A sanitized depiction of this agency.
L. Fletcher Prouty, JFK, the CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, 1992, Birch Lane, New York A; Secret Team : The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, Institute for Historical Review. A JFK assassination as government plot.
Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation, 1993, Thunder's Mouth, New York. Commentary on House investigation which concluded JFK assassination was a conspiracy.
Bill Moyers, The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, 1988, 1990, Seven Locks Press, PO Box 27, Cabin John, MD 20818, 310/320-2130. Discusses what came out of the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandals. Eloquent indictment, but no new revelations.
William Greider, Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, 1987, Simon & Schuster, New York. Describes the consequences of 1980 financial deregulation, which lays the basis for what is discussed by Rodney Stich.
Gary Sick, October Surprise, 1991, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 110 Gloucester Av, London NW18JA. Exposes deal to give Iran arms to keep hostages long enough to defeat Carter in 1980 election.
Donald Axelrod, Shadow Government: the hidden world of public authorities and how they control $1 trillion dollars of your money, 1992, Wiley, New York. Identifies how such public authorities function as a part of the Shadow Government.
Timothy Good, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up, 1988, W. Morrow, New York A; Alien Contact: Top-Secret UFO Files Revealed, 1993, W. Morrow, New York. A Raises important question: If these things are real, how are they affecting government: both visible and invisible.

Constitutional Principles

James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention, 1840. The definitive record of the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, The Federalist. Explanation of the proposed Constitution and arguments for adopting it.
Bernard Schwartz, The Roots of the Bill of Rights, 1980, Chelsea House, New York. Includes much of debate needed to interpret Framers' intent.
Merrill D. Peterson, ed., The Portable Thomas Jefferson, 1975, Penguin, New York. Major writings, especially his commentaries on the Constitution and its foundations.
Ernest Barker, ed., Social Contract, 1960, Oxford U. Press, London. Contains essays: John Locke, An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government; David Hume, Of the Original Contract; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract. These are the definitive treatises that lay the theoretical basis for republican government, and without which the Constitution cannot be fully understood.
Leonard W. Levy, Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution, 1988, Macmillan, New York. Scholar examines "original intent" doctrine and its alternatives.
Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed, 1984, Independent Institute, 134 98th Av, Oakland, CA 94603. Traces legal foundations of right to keep and bear arms and shows how it is fundamental to all other rights.
Clarence Streit, Atlantic Union Now, 1962, Freedom & Union Press, Washington, DC. Excellent analysis of how a federal constitution must be designed to be viable and effective.
Jeffrey Abramson, We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of Democracy, 1994, BasicBooks, New York. Good treatment of some of the key issues involving the jury system, including jury nullification, and how it has been perverted from its orginal form.
Friedrich A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, 1960, U. of Chicago Press, Chicago. Examines conflicting political philosophies and their impacts on ideal constitutional governance.
Walter Berns, Taking the Constitution Seriously, 1987, Madison Books, Lanham, MD. Makes case for returning to strict construction and compliance, but neglects rights to keep and bear arms and to assemble as independent militias.
William R. Tonso, The Gun Culture and its Enemies, 1990, Second Amendment Foundation, James Madison Building, 12500 N.E. Tenth Place, Bellevue, WA 98005.

Solutions

Morgan Norval, The Militia in 20th Century America: A Symposium, 1985 A; Larry Pratt, Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution and Citizens Militias, 1995. A Gun Owners Foundation, 5881 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041. Discusses the major factor missing from the political order that might make a difference.
Martin Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993, Ballantine, New York. Superficial, and misses much that is needed, but hits some useful points.
Senator Steve Symms & Larry Grupp, The Citizen's Guide to Fighting Government, 1994, Jameson Books, Inc., PO Box 738, Ottawa, IL 61350. Handbook on political action.

Investigation and Expose

Michael McNulty, William Gazecki, Dan Gifford, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, 1997, SomFord Entertainment, VHS tape. Documentary footage exposing the lies of the government concerning the events at Mt.Carmel in 1993.
Cover-up in Oklahoma, VHS tape. Documentary footage indicating government complicity in the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton : The Unreported Stories, 1997, Regnery Publishing. Expose of government complicity in the Oklahoma City bombing, in the Vince Foster death, and in drug smuggling into Arkansas. Author was an investigative reporter for the London Sunday Telegraph, and chief of their Washington bureau, when he wrote it.
A David Hoffman, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, 1998, Feral House Pr. Expose of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Christopher Ruddy, The Strange Death of Vincent Foster : An Investigation, 1997, Free Press. Expose of the death of Vincent Foster, indicating that it was murder.
David B. Kopel, Paul H. Blackman, No More Wacos : What's Wrong With Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It, 1997, Prometheus Books. Excellent discussion of the ways the federal government is exceeding its constitutional powers.
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., and "Anonymous", The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton : A Political Docu-Drama, 1997, Regnery Publishing. Presents argument and scenario for impeachment of the president.
Coulter, Ann, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, 1998, Regnery Publishing. Presents argument for impeachment of the president.
McDougal, Jim, Arkansas Mischief : The Birth of a National Scandal, 1998, Henry Holt & Company. This is the book the author was probably killed to prevent the publishing of.
Angus MacKenzie, Secrets : The CIA's War at Home, 1997, Univ. California Press.
James Sanders, The Downing of Twa Flight 800, 1997, Zebra Books. Expose of the incident. The author and his wife were recently arrested under circumstances that suggest the government is not happy with the book.
Michael Levine, Deep Cover, 1991, Dell Pub Co. Expose of corruption within the DEA and CIA by a former top DEA agent.
Michael Levine, Laura Kavanau, The Big White Lie : The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War : An Undercover Odyssey, 1994, Thunder's Mouth Pr. Expose of complicity of U.S. government agencies in the spread of narcotics.
Michael Levine, Laura Kavanau, Triangle of Death, 1997, Dell Pub Co. Novel that is more like a documentary of U.S. government criminality.
Quigley, Carroll, Tragedy and Hope, 1975, Gsg & Assoc. Exposes the Anglo American Establishment.
Quigley, Carroll, Anglo American Establishment, 1981, Gsg & Assoc. Further exposes the Anglo American Establishment.
Quigley, Carroll, The Evolution of Civilizations, 1975, Liberty Fund. Provides a coherent exposition of how civilizations develop.
Halbrook, Stephen P., Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876, 1998, Praeger.
Lott, John R., More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws, 1998, Univ. of Chicago Pr.
Kleck, Gary, Point Blank : Guns and Violence in America, 1991, Aldine De Gruyter.
Kleck, Gary; Kates, Don B., Jr., The Great American Gun Debate : Essays on Firearms & Violence, 1997, Pacific Research Inst for Public Policy.
Kleck, Gary, Targeting Guns : Firearms and Their Control, 1997, Aldine De Gruyter.
B Jacobs, David, The Threat : Alien Agenda, 1998, Simon & Schuster. Analysis of reports from many abductees that build a picture of what the aliens may be trying to do.
Col. Philip Corso (ret.), with William J. Birnes, The Day After Roswell, 1997, New York, Simon & Schuster.
Kenn Thomas & Jim Keith, The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro, 1996, Feral House, Portland, OR, $19.95 hardback.
Michele Moore, Oklahoma City: Day One, 1996, The Harvest Trust, Eagar, AZ, $29.95 paperback.
M. Wesley Swearingen, FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose, 1994, South End Press, Boston, MA, $13.00 paperback.
Tyrone Powers, Eyes to My Soul: The Rise or Decline of a Black FBI Agent, 1996, Majority Pr.
Jonathan Karl, The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America's New Militias, 1995, HarperCollins, New York, $5.99 paperback.
Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Stratton, The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice, 2000, Prima Publishing, $19.96 hardcover.
Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America - A Chronological Paper Trail, 1999, Conscience Pr., $39.95 paperback.

Political Science and Constitutional Commentary

Antonin Scalia, Amy Gutmann (Ed.), A Matter of Interpretation, 1998, Princeton Univ Pr. Speech by Supreme Court Justice Scalia on the principles and issues of constitutional interpretation, followed by comments by several scholars, followed by Scalia's rebuttals.
David Boaz (Ed.), The Libertarian Reader : Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman, 1997, Free Pr. Anthology of key writings.
Mansfield, Harvey C., Jr., America's Constitutional Soul, 1993, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr. Essays on the natural law foundations of constitutionalism and what is needed to return to constitutional compliance.
Levy, Leonard W., Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution, 1988, Macmillan. Analysis of original intent and the ways lawyers and judges, and especially the Supreme Court, distort and misunderstand history in interpreting the Constitution.
Bradford, M.E., Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution, 1993, U. Georgia Pr. Brief commentary and historical analysis.
Daniel Sisson, The American Revolution of 1800, 1974, Alfred A. Knopf. Preface by Harvey Wheeler. The victory of the Jeffersonians over the Federalists settled constitutional interpretation for the next 20 years.
McDonald, Forrest, E Pluribus Unum, 1979, Liberty Fund. History and commentary on the formation of the American Union.
McDonald, Forrest, A Constitutional History of the United States, 1986. History and commentary on the formation of the American Union.
McDonald, Forrest, Novus Ordo Seclorum : The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, 1986, Univ Pr of Kansas. Survey of the writings and ideas on which the Constitution was founded.
McDonald, Forrest, We the People : The Economic Origins of the Constitution, 1992, Transaction Pub. Economic factors affecting the founding of the Constitution.
Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, 1992, Belknap Pr. Survey of the writings and ideas on which the Constitution was founded.
Rosen, Gary, American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding, 1999, Univ Pr of Kansas. Examines the thought of Madison in detail.
Banning, Lance, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic, 1998, Cornell Univ Pr. Analyzes Madison's ideas and how they relate to constitutional interpretation.
Banning, Lance, Jeffersonian Persuasion : Evolution of a Party Ideology, 1980, Cornell Univ Pr. Traces the development of Jeffersonian interpretative doctrine.
McNamara, Joseph S., Roche, Lissa, eds., Still the Law of the Land?, 1987, Hillsdale College Pr. Essays on changing interpretations of the Constitution.
McLean, Edward B., Derailing the Constitution: The Undermining of American Federalism, 1995, Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Essays on the ways the Constitution is being misinterpreted.
Arkes, Hadley, The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring a Jurisprudence of Natural Rights, 1997, Princeton Univ Pr. Biography and analysis of the opinions of perhaps the leading Supreme Court Justice to resist the New Deal usurpations.
Randy E. Barnett, Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment. Provides excellent guide to what else the Founders intended to include in the rights protected by the Constitution. Vol. 1, 1990, Univ Pub Assoc. Vol. 2, 1993, George Mason Univ Pr.
Strauss, Leo, Natural Right and History, 1965, Univ of Chicago Pr. Historical and philosophical analysis of natural law theory.
George, Robert P., ed., Natural Law Theory : Contemporary Essays, 1995, Clarendon Pr. Commentary on natural law theory.
Rakove, Jack N., The Beginnings of National Politics : An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress, 1982, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr. Analysis and documentation concerning constitutional interpretation.
Rakove, Jack N., Interpreting the Constitution : The Debate over Original Intent, 1990, Northeastern Univ Pr. Analysis and documentation concerning constitutional interpretation.
B Rakove, Jack N., Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, 1997, Vintage Books. Analysis and documentation concerning constitutional interpretation.
Rakove, Jack N., Declaring Rights : A Brief History With Documents, 1997, Bedford Books. Analysis and documentation concerning constitutional interpretation.
Michael Kammen, The Origins of the American Constitution : A Documentary History, 1986, Penguin USA. Key selections from constitutional plans, private correspondence of the Founders, and Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers.
Alan Ehrenhalt , The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office, 1992, Times Books. Argues that candidates for public office are increasingly self-nominated, full-time professional politicians, who have the ambition, time, skills, and other resources to win and retain elective office, but frequently lack other qualities that are needed in our legislative and executive institutions in order for them to function effectively as formulators of coherent public policies.
Johannes Althusius, Frederick Smith Carney, (ed. & tr.), Politica, 1995, Liberty Fund. Originally published in Latin in 1603, and revised in 1614, it first presented a comprehensive theory of federal republicanism based on a covenantal model of human society.
John C. Calhoun, Ross M. Lence, (ed.), Union and Liberty : The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun, 1992, Liberty Fund. Includes "A Disquisition on Government" and "A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States". Developed the doctrines of concurrent majority, interposition, nullification, and state secession, to correct what he perceived as a defect in the design of the Constitution that permits a persistent majority to dominate all three branches of government and legislate against the interests of a minority to the point where they would consider their rights violated.
Hobbes, Thomas, Man and Citizen : De Homine and De Cive, 1991, Hackett Pub Co. Expositions of Hobbes' moral and political philosophy, better in many ways than Leviathan.
Beccaria, Cesare, On Crimes and Punishments, 1992, Branden Pub Co. Essay on criminal law and penal reform.
Bentham, Jeremy, The Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1988, Prometheus Books. Develops doctrine of utilitarianism and applies it to government.
Spinoza, Benedict de (Baruch), Theologico-Political Treatise : Political Treatise, 1951, Dover Pubns. Lays political theory on basis of morality and natural law.
Pufendorf, Samuel, On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law, 1991, Cambridge Univ Pr.
Vattel, Emmerich de, Law of Nations, 1975, AMS Pr.
Lolme, Jean Louis de, The Rise and Progress of the Constitution of England, 1979, Ayer Co Pub.
Axelrod, Robert, The Complexity of Cooperation : Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration, 1997, Princeton Univ Pr.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Frederick Watkins (ed.) Political Writings, 1986, Univ of Wisconsin Pr. Contains the Social Contract, Considerations on the Government of Poland, and Constitutional Project for Corsica.
Lehman, Godfrey D., We the Jury : The Impact of Jurors on Our Basic Freedoms : Great Jury Trials of History, 1997, Prometheus. Landmark cases in which the jury played the starring role.
Lehman, Godfrey D., The Ordeal of Edward Bushell, 1988, Lexicon. A fictionalized rendition of Bushell's Case, in which Edward Bushell, by holding out against intense pressure to convict William Penn on a charge of preaching in a way not authorized by the Church of England, established both the power and role of the jury and the right of free exercise of religion. Available from America's Legal Bookstore, 725 J St, Sacramento, CA 95814, 916/441-0410.
Heinlein, Robert A., Take Back Your Government! : A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen Who Wants Democracy to Work, 1992, Baen Books. The master of science fiction also wrote a handbook for political activists.

History and Biography

Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx : The Character of Thomas Jefferson, 1997, Knopf. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for non-fiction. Excellent examination of Thomas Jefferson as a man and political philosopher, and why he commands such an influence over political discourse in the United States after 200 years.
Thomas P. Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion : Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution, 1988, Oxford Univ Press. History and significance of a tax rebellion in Western Pennsylvania in 1794 that was crushed by federal troops under the orders of George Washington.
David P. Szatmary, Shay's Rebellion : The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection, 1984, Univ of Massachusetts Pr. History and significance of the debtor rebellion in Western Massachusetts from August 1786 to February 1787 that frightened American leaders into planning for a stronger central government and calling the Constitutional Convention.
Henry S. Commager, Milton Cantor (Eds.), Documents of American History, 1988, Prentice Hall. Fairly complete collection. Good resource for the historian. Vol. 1, To 1898 Vol. 2, Since 1898
Rosenfeld, Richard, American Aurora : A Democratic-Republican Returns, 1997, St Martins Pr. Tells the story of the struggle between the Hamiltonian federalists and the Jeffersonian democrats in the first years of the United States, from the viewpoint of the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Bache, the publisher of the Philadelphia Aurora, the newspaper that provoked the passage of the Sedition Act, under which its publisher was prosecuted, and which is credited with the election of Jefferson in 1800.
McDonald, Forrest, The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, 1987, Univ Pr of Kansas. History of the Jefferson presidency.

Cautionary Fiction

Ross, John, Unintended Consequences, 1996, Accurate Pr. Traces the progress from restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms to a police state.
Preston, Richard, The Cobra Event, 1997, Random House. This is the novel that scared President Bill Clinton. Provides a realistic portrayal of a biological terrorist attack on the United States.

Recovery and Personal Development

Huffer, Karin, Overcoming the Devastation of Legal Abuse Syndrome, 1995, Fulkort Pr. For victims of legal abuse and the social isolation such victims often experience.
Doman, Glenn and Janet, How to Teach Your Baby to Read, 1994, Avery Pub Group. Instructions on how to teach infants before age two.
Doman, Glenn and Janet, How to Teach Your Baby Math, 1993, Avery Pub Group. Instructions on how to teach infants before age two.
Doman, Glenn and Janet, How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence, 1994, Avery Pub Group. Instructions on how to teach infants before age two.
Doman, Glenn and Janet, Susan Aisen, How to Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge, 1994, Avery Pub Group. Instructions on how to teach infants before age two.

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Readings on Corruption, Conspiracy, and Constitutional Principles

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