Ron Paul’s Suggested Book Read List

Retired US Congressman Mr. Ron Paul recommends some 50 books that expounds on the ideas of Freedom. You may want to consider them (some of them are available online via pdf) 

From LewRockwell.com

In Ron Paul's latest best-seller, Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom, he offers us his thoughts on a series of controversial topics, from Abortion to Zionism. His purpose is to inspire serious, critical, and independent thinking. Here are the books he cites for further study. Read 1, 2, or more:

Anderson, Terry. Free Market Environmentalism

Belfield, Richard. The Assassination Business: A History of State-Sponsored Murder

Burleigh, Anne Husted. Education in a Free Society

Caplan, Bryan. The Myth of the Rational Voter

Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

Chodorov, Frank. The Income Tax: The Root of All Evil

De Jouvenal, Bertrand. The Ethics of Redistribution

Denson, John. A Century of War

___ Reassessing the Presidency:The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom

Epstein, Richard. Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination

___ Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain

Faddis, Charles S. Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA

Fisher, Louis. Presidential War Power

Fridson, Martin. Unwarranted Intrusions: The Case Against Government Interventions in the Marketplace

Flynn, John T. As We Go Marching

___ The Roosevelt Myth

Grant, James. Money of the Mind

Higgs, Robert. Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government

___ Depression, War and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy

Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. Democracy: The God That Failed

Horner, Christopher. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming

King, Martin Luther, Jr. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King

La Boétie, Etienne de. The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Larson, Edward J. The Creation-Evolution Debate: Historical Perspectives

Lott, John. More Guns, Less Crime

Mann, Vivian. Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain

Mencken, H. L. Notes on Democracy

Mises, Ludwig Von. Human Action: The Scholars Edition

___ The Theory of Money and Credit

___ Omnipotent Government

___ Nation, State and Economy

___ Theory and History

Morley, Felix. Freedom and Federalism

Napolitano, Andrew. The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land

Paterson, Isabel. The God of the Machine

Paul, Ron. Mises and Austrian Economics: A Personal View

___ The Case for Gold

___ A Foreign Policy of Freedom

Petro, Sylvester. The Labor Policy of a Free Society

Rockwell, Llewellyn H., Jr. The Left, the Right, and the State

Rothbard, Murray. An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

___ For a New Liberty

___ Education: Free and Compulsory

Saenz-Baillos, Angel. A History of the Hebrew Language

Savage, Charlie. Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy

Schoeck, Helmut. Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior

Slezkine, Yuri. The Jewish Century

Spooner, Lysander. Let's Abolish Government

Sowell, Thomas. Race and Culture

Thompson, C. Bradley. Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea

Thornton, Mark. The Economics of Prohibition

Thoreau, Henry David, Civil Disobedience

Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

West, E. G. Education and the State: A Study in Political Economy

Woods, Thomas. Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked and Government Bailouts Will Make Thing Worse

___ Nullification: How to Resist Tyranny in the 21st Century