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American Manifesto Featured Books
Ahlstrom, S.E., 1972, A religious history of the American people, Yale UP
Aikman, David, 2003, Jesus in Beijing, Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington DC
How Christianity is booming in China
Anbinder, Tyler, 2001, Five Points, The Free Press, New York
Ankerberg, John, and Weldon, John, 1998, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House, Eugene, Oregon
Armstrong, Karen, 1994, A History of God, Ballantine Books
Armstrong, Karen, 2000, The Battle for God., Knopf
Bartholomew, James, 2006, The Welfare State We're In, Politico's Publishing
How the welfare state makes crime, education, families, and health care worse.
Barzun, Jacques, 2000, From Dawn to Decadence, Harper/Collins, New York
Beck, Don Edward, and Cowan, Christopher C, 1996, Spiral Dynamics, Blackwell
Beito, David T., 2000, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State, University of North Carolina Press
How ordinary people built a sturdy social safety net in the 19th century
Best, Geoffrey, 1979, Mid-Victorian Britain 1851-75, Fontana Press, London
Bethell, Tom, 1998, The Noblest Triumph, St. Martin's Griffin, New York
Brace, C.L., 1880, The Dangerous classes of New York, Adamant
Brands, H.W., 2000, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, Doubleday, New York
Bretall, Robert, 1973, A Kierkegaard Anthology, Princeton University Press
Broughton, John M. et al, 1982, The Cognitive-developmental Psychology of James Mark Baldwin, Ablex
Burke, Edmund, 1937, Edmund Burke, P.F. Collier
includes Reflections of the Revolution in France
Burke, James, 1985, The Day The Universe Changed, Little Brown, Boston
Burns, MacGregor and Murray, Williamson, ed., 2001, The dynamics of military revolution, 1300-2050, Cambridge University Press
Bushman, C.L. and R.L., 1999, Mormons in America, Oxford University Press, New York
Campbell, Joseph, 1968, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Princeton University Press
Carnes, Tony, 2001/4/13, “The Pentecostal City”, The Wall Street Journal Carter, Stephen L., 2001, God’s Name in Vain, Basic Books Chernow, Ron, 2005, Alexander Hamilton, Penguin Clark, Gregory, 2007, A Farewell to Alms, Princeton UP Cleary, Edward L. et al., 1997, Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America, Westview Collins et al, Daryl, 2009, Portfolios for the Poor, Princeton UP Combe, Victoria, 2001/12/26, “Curate's course feeds a spiritual hunger”, The Daily Telegraph Cornford, Francis, 1945, The Republic of Plato, Oxford University Press Coulson, Andrew J., 1999, Market Education, Transaction Publishers Cross, Whitney, 1950, The Burned-over District, Cornell UP Crunden, R.M., 1982, Ministers of Reform: the Progressives’ Achievement in American civilization, 1889 - 1920, Basic Dalrymple, Theodore, 2001, Life at the Bottom,, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago De Soto, Hernando, 2000, The Mystery of Capital, Basic Books De Soto, Hernando, 1990, The Other Path, Harper and Row Dobb, C. B., 1991, Sociology: An Introduction,, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Fort Worth Eksteins, Modris, 1989, Rites of Spring, Anchor Books Eliot, Charles W., 1909, The Religion of the Future, Kessinger Eliot, George, 1996, Adam Bede, Oxford UP Febvre, Lucien, 1975, The Coming of the Book, Finke, Roger, and Stark, Rodney, 1992, The Churching of America, 1776-1990, Rutgers University Press Fletcher, Richard, 1999, The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity, University of California Press Fogel, Robert William, 2000, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, University of Chicago Press Fogel, Robert William, 1989, Without Consent or Contract, W.W. Norton Foster, C.I., 1960, An errand of mercy, The evangelical united front, 1790-1837,, North Carolina UP Friedan, Betty, 1963, The Feminine Mystique, Fukuyama, Francis, 1996, Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, Free Press Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1963, American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power, Penguin Garrard-Burnett, Virginia, and Stoll, David, 1993, Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America, Gebser, Jean, 1984, The Everpresent Origin, Ohio University Press Gould, Philip, 1999, The Unfinished Revolution, Abacus Graña, César, 1964, Bohemian versus Bourgeois, Basic Books (O/S PQ292.G7) Green, David G, ed., 1999, Before Beveridge: Welfare Before the Welfare State, Institute of Economic Affairs, London Hamilton, etc., Alexander, 1999, The Federalist Papers, Mentor Hardy, Thomas, 1988, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Oxford UP Harris, E. Lowell, 1951, History and Policies of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, NBER Harris, Lee, 2004, Civilization and Its Enemies, Free Press Hayek, F. A., 1973, Law Legislation and Liberty, Vol 1, University of Chicago Press Hofstadter, Richard, 1963, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Hofstadter, Richard, 1955, The Age of Reform, Vintage Books, New York Hunt, Morton, 1993, The Story of Psychology, Doubleday, New York Hunter, James Davison, 1991, Culture Wars, Basic Books, New York Johnson, Paul, 1979, A History of Christianity, Simon & Schuster Josephson, Matthew, 1962, The Robber Barons, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Kaestle, Carl F., 1983, Pillars of the Republic, Hill and Wang, New York Kaufmann, Walter, 1992, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, Modern Library, New York Lane, Frederick C., 1973, Venice A Maritime Republic, Johns Hopkins University Press Lane, Frederick C., 1992, Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance, Johns Hopkins University Press Loevinger, Jane, 1976, Ego Development, , Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (SA BF175.L63) MacIntyre, Alasdair, 2007, After Virtue, University of Notre Dame Press Maine, Henry, 1972, Ancient Law, Everyman’s Library, London Markham, Jerry W., 2001, A Financial History of the United States, M.E. Sharpe Martin, David, 1990, Tongues of Fire, Blackwell Publishers Martin, David, 2002, Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish, Blackwell Publishers Marx, Karl, 1860, , Marx, Karl, and Engels, Friedrich, 1992, The Communist Manifesto, Bantam Books, New York McCloskey, Deirdre, 2007, The Bourgeois Virtues, Univ. of Chicago Press McLoughlin, William G., 1978, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform, University of Chicago Press Meltzer, Milton, 19xx,, Slavery, A World History, Meltzer, Milton, 1971, Slavery, from the rise of western civilization to the Renaissance,, Cowles, New York (O HT863.M37) Morris, William, 19xx, Art and Socialism, Mosier, John, 2001, The Myth of the Great War, Profile Books Nigosian, S.A., 1993, The Zoroastrian Faith, , McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal Novack, George, 1966, Existentialism versus Marxism, Dell Publishing Novak, Michael, 1991, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, Madison Books Odom, William E., 1998, The Collapse of the Soviet Military, Yale University Press Peterson, Jesse Lee, 2000, From Rage to Responsibility, Continuum International Publishing Group Piven, Frances Fox, Cloward, Richard A, 1972, Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, Vintage Books, New York Revel, Jean-Francois, 1978, The Totalitarian Temptation, Penguin Riis, Jacob A., 1997, How the Other Half Lives,, Penguin Classics, New York Ryken, Leland, 1990, Worldly Saints, Zondervan Scruton, Roger, 1984, A Short History of Modern Philosophy, Routledge Seymour-Jones, Carole, 1992, Beatrice Webb: A Life, Ivan R. Dee Shaw, Bernard, ed., 1889, Fabian Essays in Socialism, Dolphin Books Sheehan, James J., 1989, German History 1770-1866, Clarendon Press, Oxford Skocpol, Theda, 2003, Diminished Democracy, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman Smith, Brian H., 1998, Religious Politics in Latin America: Pentecostal vs. Catholic, Smith, Huston, 1991, The World’s Religions, HarperSanFrancisco, New York Sowell, Thomas, 1998, Conquests and Cultures, Basic Books, New York Stark, Rodney, 2004, Exploring the Religious Life, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore Stark, Rodney, and Bainbridge, William Sims, 1996, A Theory of Religion, Stark, Rodney, and Bainbridge, William Sims, 1985, The Future of Religion, University of California Press Stark, Rodney, and Finke, Roger, 2000, Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion, University of California Press, Berkeley Stern, William J, 1997, “How Dagger John Saved New York’s Irish”, City Journal, Manhattan Institute Stevenson, David, 1990, The Origins of Freemasonry, Cambridge University Press Stevenson, George M, 1952, The Puritan Heritage, Macmillan, New York Stoll, David, 1990, Is Latin America Turning Protestant?, UC Press, Berkeley Sweet, W., 1952, Religion in the development of American culture 1764-1840, Scribner Taylor, Charles, 1992, Sources of the Self, Harvard UP Thirsk, J, ed., 1967, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Cambridge University Press, (SA HD593.A62) Thoreau, Henry David, 1997, Walden, World’s Classics Tooley, James, 2000, Reclaiming Education, Cassell Tooley, James, 2003, The Miseducation of Women, Ivan R. Dee Tooley, James, 2009, The Beautiful Tree, Cato Institute Trattner, Walter I., 1994, From Poor Law to Welfare State, Free Press Turner, Frederick, 1999, Shakespeare's Twenty-first Century Economics, Oxford UP Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi, 2009, Off the Books, Harvard UP Wade, Nicholas, 2006, Before the Dawn, Penguin Press Webster, Donovan, 2002/01, “China’s Unknown Gobi”, National Geographic West, E.G., 1994, Education and the State, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis Wilson, A.N., 1999, God’s Funeral, W.W. Norton Wilson, August, 2003, Jitney, Overlook Press Wood, Gordon S., 1992, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Knopf Woodson, Robert L., 1998, The Triumphs of Joseph, The Free Press World Bank, 2006, Where Is the Wealth of Nations?, World Bank Zane, John Maxcy, 1998, The Story of Law, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis Zinn, Howard, 1997, The Zinn Reader, Seven Stories Press
How the industrial revolution turned survival of the richest into upward mobility
how the poor handle their finances
How universal literacy was achieved before government education
How ordinary people in the United States wrote the law during the 19th century
how the informal economy works in Lima, Peru
British country life at turn of 19th century
How the United States grew into a religious nation
How progressives must act fast if they want to save the welfare state
the history of plantation slavery in the New World
on various levels of trust in different societies
apology for rule by big business big labor and big government
How ordinary people built themselves a sturdy safety net before the welfare state
the violation and abandonment of a country girl
How to build a society based upon law
How we got our education system
How the movement of progressive peoples is from status to contract
included info on McFadden Act
How Pentecostalism is spreading across the world
on the inescapable need for the virtues
how the Germans adapted their tactics to the reality of the lethal battlefield
celebration of Marxism and Existentialism
from the invention of the Cartesian ego to its destruction
partner of Sidney Webb and developer of Britain's welfare state
How the US used to thrive under membership associations and could do again
How modern freemasonry got started in Scotland
How the modern notion of the self emerged in the west
How only a market in education will provide opportunity for the poor
How the feminists wrecked education for boys and for girls
how third world private schools educate the poor
On the development of government welfare
how the economy works in the inner city
using gene tracking on early humans
How education was doing fine before the government muscled in
Intangible capital is the largest share of wealth
How law developed from early times down to the present
Work to restore the Road to the Middle Class. Here’s how. Ground it in faith. Grade it with education. Protect it with mutual aid. Defend it with the law. more>>
The Road to the Middle Class is a journey from a world of power to a world of trust and love. In religion, it is a journey from power gods that respond to sacrifice and augury to the God who makes a covenant with mankind. In education, it is a journey from the world of the spoken word to the world of the written word. In community, it is the journey from dependence on blood kin and upon clientage under a great lord to the mutual aid and the rules of the self-governing fraternal association. In law it is the journey from the violence of force and feud to the king’s peace, the law of contract, and private property.
Responsibility
Seeckt: "to make of each individual member of the army a soldier who, in character, capability, and knowledge, is self-reliant, self-confident, dedicated, and joyful in taking responsibility [verantwortungsfreudig] as a man and a soldier."
MacGregor Knox et. al., The dynamics of military revolution, 1300-2050
Living the Virtues
When recurrently the tradition of the virtues is regenerated, it is always in everyday life, it is always through the engagement by plain persons in a variety of practices, including those of making and sustaining families and households, schools, clinics, and local forms of political community.
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
Moral Imperatives of Modern Culture
These emerge out of long-standing moral notions of freedom, benevolence, and the affirmation of ordinary life... I have been sketching a schematic map... [of] the moral sources [of these notions]... the original theistic grounding for these standards... a naturalism of disengaged reason, which in our day takes scientistic forms, and a third family of views which finds its sources in Romantic expressivism, or in one of the modernist successor visions.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
US Life in 1842
Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Society and State
For [the left] there is only the state and the individual, nothing in between. No family to rely on, no friend to depend on, no community to call on. No neighbourhood to grow in, no faith to share in, no charities to work in. No-one but the Minister, nowhere but Whitehall, no such thing as society - just them, and their laws, and their rules, and their arrogance.
David Cameron, Conference Speech 2008
Faith and Politics
As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable...
[1.] protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death; [2.] recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family... [3.] the protection of the right of parents to educate their children.
Pope Benedict XVI, Speech to European Peoples Party, 2006
Never Trust Experts
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Lord Salisbury, “Letter to Lord Lytton”
Conservatism's Holy Grail
What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph
Class War
In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class. In the nineteenth century, the academic middle class won the battle for power and status... Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher... The academics lost their power and prestige and... have been gloomy ever since.
Freeman Dyson, “The Scientist as Rebel”
Government Expenditure
The Union publishes an exact return of the amount of its taxes; I can get copies of the budgets of the four and twenty component states; but who can tell me what the citizens spend in the administration of county and township?
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Conservatism
Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity
Postmodernism
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy
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