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Libertarianism

Most Recommended Books

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A Hayek

“Hayek believed—and Mrs Thatcher believed all this, as well—that socialism was about control and liberalism, in its true sense, was about letting people fend for themselves, to make their own decisions and go as they wished.”

Simon Heffer, Historian

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    The best books on Freedom Isn’t Enough, recommended by Yuval Levin

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    The best books on Freedom Isn’t Enough - Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs by Edmund Burke

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    The best books on Freedom Isn’t Enough - Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville & Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (translators)

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    Democracy in America
    by Alexis de Tocqueville & Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (translators)

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    The best books on Freedom Isn’t Enough - The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A Hayek

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    The best books on Freedom Isn’t Enough - Statecraft as Soulcraft by George F Will

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    The best books on Freedom Isn’t Enough - The Beginning of Wisdom by Leon R Kass

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    The Beginning of Wisdom
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The best books on Freedom Isn’t Enough, recommended by Yuval Levin

The Founder and Editor of National Affairs Magazine speculates how the founding fathers of Conservatism might have been nervous about Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement

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    The best books on Libertarianism - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

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    Atlas Shrugged
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    The best books on Libertarianism - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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    On Liberty
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    The best books on Libertarianism - Our Enemy the State by Albert Jay Nock

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    Our Enemy the State
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    The best books on Libertarianism - The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945 by George H Nash

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    The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945
    by George H Nash

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    The best books on Libertarianism - Radicals for Capitalism by Brian Doherty

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    Radicals for Capitalism
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The best books on Libertarianism, recommended by Anne Heller

The magazine editor, journalist and biographer of Ayn Rand selects five books that define the essence of libertarianism. Atlas Shrugged is first on her list.

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    The best books on How Libertarians Can Govern - The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A Hayek

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    The Road to Serfdom
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    The best books on How Libertarians Can Govern - Free to Choose by Milton Friedman

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    Free to Choose
    by Milton Friedman

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    The best books on How Libertarians Can Govern - What It Means to Be a Libertarian by Charles Murray

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    What It Means to Be a Libertarian
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    The best books on How Libertarians Can Govern - The Rise and Decline of Nations by Mancur Olson

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    The best books on How Libertarians Can Govern - The Future and Its Enemies by Virginia Postrel

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    The Future and Its Enemies
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The best books on How Libertarians Can Govern, recommended by Mitch Daniels

The Governor of Indiana promotes a new philosophy of libertarianism and selects the books that have influenced him most.

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