IN MEMORY OF PETER NAGLIK

1967-2006

 
Read to Lead

“If we could learn to think of them [books] as tools, like chisels, or lathes, or high-speed modems, maybe we could come across a set of ides or a system of thought founded on something other than the workshop of money.”

                                                                         -- Lewis H. Lapham

Here are a few suggestions. This scant list is, by no means, complete. Many of these books will lead you to others. Follow that trail.

Some Foundation
William F. Buckley, Jr., God and Man at Yale
Whittaker Chambers, Witness
Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties
Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

Some Interesting Stuff
Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind
Robert Bork, The Tempting of America
James Q. Wilson, The Moral Sense

Our Home and Native Land
Jonathan Manthorpe, The Power and the Tories
Graham Fraser, Playing for Keeps
Tom Flanagan, Waiting for the Wave
William Gairdner, The Trouble with Canada and The War Against the Family
Martin, Gregg & Perlin, The Contenders: The Tory Quest for Power
Claire Hoy, Bill Davis: A Biography
John Sawatsky, Mulroney: The Politics of Ambition
John Ibbitson, Promised Land

The American Experience
Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution
Christopher Matthews, Hardball
William O’Riordan, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

*Read some novels. It won’t kill you.

(Naglik attached to this list National Review's list of Top 100 Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century.)