Jim’s top ten books for Christmas
By JR Hoeft | Thursday, December 8th, 2011 | Catch-All
If you’re looking for some Christmas presents to put under the tree for your favorite politico, check out my top ten list of “must read” books for Virginia conservatives:
1. The Republic, Plato
2. The Law, Frederic Bastiat
3. The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
4. The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
5. Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition, Milton Friedman
6. The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk
7. His Excellency: George Washington, Joseph J. Ellis
8. John Adams, David McCullough
9. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph J. Ellis
10. The Dynamic Dominion: Realignment and the Rise of Two-Party Competition in Virginia, 1945-1980, Frank B. Atkinson
All books are available through Amazon.com and you can support Bearing Drift by purchasing them through this offer:
Look for more contributors to also share with you their “top ten”!
Update: Check out Shaun Kenney’s more “establishment” library.
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Conservative to the core; liberal with his opinion! J.R. has been involved in politics for over a decade and has worked on several campaigns in Hampton Roads. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Chesapeake and the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is also the director of “Blogs United” in Virginia. E-mail J.R.. Follow J.R. on Twitter.
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7 Responses to "Jim’s top ten books for Christmas"
I just finished David Morrell’s novel, “The Spy Who Came For Christmas”. It’s a unique spy novel, very little profanity, most of which is in Russian, minimal violence for a spy novel, and an interesting tale, (Biblically correct),about the Magi and Joseph from a spy’s perspective. I wholeheartedly recommend it, and several people, friends and family, are going to find it under their tree.
I gotta say — I’m really digging the Amazon widget.
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Atkinson’s book really needs a second edition covering 1980 to the present. It is an excellent read.
Steve – he does – “Virginia in the Vanguard” It covers up to 2006.
I’ll have to look for that.
Another worthy book on Virginia politics would be “When Hell Froze Over” by Dwayne Yancey on the rise of Doug Wilder.
A nice fictionalization of Virginia politics is the “The Shad Treatment.”
There’s also an outstanding biography of Harry F. Byrd that came out a few years ago.
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