Here are some of the books I have found illuminating

  • A Constitutional Reader, Edited by the Hillsdale College Politics Faculty
  • A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future, Os Guinness
  • A History of Rome, M. Cary and H.H. Scullard
  • A Modest Proposal to Amend the Constitution, Paul Antinori
  • A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country, Larry J. Sabato
  • American Lion; Andrew Jackson in the White House, Jon Meacham
  • American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Colin Woodard
  • Annals and History, Tacitus (Introduction by Robin Lane Fox)
  • Churchill’s Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government, Larry P. Arnn
  • Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, Michael J. Sandel
  • It Doesn’t Take a Hero; H. Norman Schwarzkopf and Peter Petre
  • John Adams, David McCullough
  • Last Call for Liberty: How America’s Genius for Freedom has Become its Greatest Threat, Os Guiness
  • Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton
  • The 1st Infantry Division and the US Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm 1970–1991, Gregory Fontenot (Colonel US Army retired)
  • The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, Steven F. Hayward
  • The Bible
  • The Black Book of Communism: Crimes Terror, Repression; (Numerous contributors, Edited by Mark Kramer)
  • The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment, Carl J. Richard
  • The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic, Mark Levin
  • The Way of Duty, Honor, Country; The Memoir of General Charles Pelot Summerall, Charles Pelot Summerall, Edited by Timothy K. Nenniger