by Steven Montgomery
In 1997, I attended a class taught by Oliver De Mille of George Wythe College. In that class he wanted us to compile a reading list of 50 or so of the best books we had, up to that point read.
I was then: in my mid-forties; a veteran (of sorts) of Utah politics through involvement with the American party in the mid-seventies and early eighties; a student of Constitutional courses such as that taught by W. Cleon Skousen’s Freeman Institute (now the National Center For Constitutional Studies), the Constitutional Broadside Newsletter (now defunct), and several others; an active member of the John Birch Society; an active student of a self-designed study program in an eclectic array of political and economic subjects; and I had managed, finally, to obtain my Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History from Southern Utah University.
When I compiled my list I naturally concentrated on those areas I considered essential towards understanding: freedom; our U.S. Constitution, its principles and ideals; the free-market and our original monetary system; and finally, the various threats against freedom, including those regarding a trans-generational and trans-national conspiracy to overthrow the freedom of all lands and countries and to impose a world government.
The list is below. Not all are books, some are essays or transcripts of speeches, etc.
Are there any books listed here that you would like to read? What are the books you consider essential to obtaining a complete and rounded education upon these subjects? What books have I left out? What is your “best books” list? I welcome your commentary. Here’s the list (I have made an initial and rather incomplete attempt to include links, where available. Inclusion of a link does not necessarily imply endorsement), in no particular order:
- The Five Thousand Year Leap, W. Cleon Skousen
- The American Tradition, Clarence B. Carson
- The Law, Frederick Bastiat
- Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen, H. Verlan Andersen
- The Great And Abominable Church Of The Devil, H. Verlan Andersen
- The Perfect Law Of Liberty (an essay, since then put on the web), Steven Montgomery
- The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner, Ezra Taft Benson
- The Elders Of Israel And The Constitution, Jerome Horowitz
- Lecture Manual, Causa Institute
- The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, Sheri Dew
- Seventeen Eighty Nine: An Unfinished Manuscript Which Explains The Early History of the Communist Conspiracy, Anonymous (published by American Opinion)
- From Russia With Thanks, George Racy Jordan
- Beating the Unbeatable Foe, Frederick Schwarz
- Is the Cold War Over? Bouscaren
- The Greatest Plot in History, Toledano
- The Great Prologue, Mark E. Peterson
- The Light and the Glory, Peter Marshall
- God’s Hand in the Founding of America, Michael Chadwick
- The Mainspring of Human Progress, Henry Grady Weaver
- Prophets, Principles, and National Survival, Jerrald Newquist
- Stand Fast by the Constitution, J. Reuben Clark
- What the U.S. Constitution Really Means, Larry Wilcox
- The Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison, Jay
- The Sabotage of the Tenth Amendment, Edward Albertson
- This Nation Shall Endure, Ezra Taft Benson
- The Making of America, W. Cleon Skousen
- Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt
- In Defense of Property, Gottfried Dietze
- A Plea For the Constitution of the United States: Wounded in the House of its Guardians, George Bancroft
- Caveat Against Injustice: Or, An Inquiry into the Evils of a fluctuating medium of exchange, Roger Sherman
- Miracle on Main Street, F. Tupper Saussey
- An Essay on the Trial by Jury, Lysander Spooner
- Anglo-American Jury: Keystone of Human Rights, Gordon Press Publishers
- You Can Trust The Communists: To Be Communists, Fred Schwarz
- The Naked Communist, W. Cleon Skousen
- Masters of Deceit, J. Edgar Hoover
- The Red Carpet, Ezra Taft Benson
- The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
- None Dare Call It Conspiracy, Gary Allen
- The Shadows of Power, James Perloff
- Why Not Call It Treason?, Phoebe Courtney
- An Overview of our World, John F. McManus
- “The Book of Mormon is the Word of God,” Ezra Taft Benson
- “Handout on Secret Combinations,” Compiled by Steven Montgomery
- The Naked Capitalist, W. Cleon Skousen
- It’s Very Simple, Alan Stang
- The Revolution Lobby, Brownfield and others
- Marx and Satan, Richard Wurmbrand
- The Fearful Master, G. Edward Griffin
- An Enemy Hath Done This, Ezra Taft Benson
- “Various Reports on CPUSA, M.L. King, etc.,” J. Edgar Hoover
- Proofs of a Conspiracy, John Robison
- Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, Abbe Augustin Barruel
- The Socialist Network, Nesta Webster
- Valley of Decision, Sterling Lacy
- I Saw Poland Betrayed, Arthur Bliss Lane
- Tshombe, Anthony Bouscaren
- Is The Cold War Over?, Anthony Bouscaren
- Little Cesar, Ralph de Toledano
- America’s Retreat From Victory, Joseph R. McCarthy
- Background to Betrayal, Hilaire du Berrier
- Assault On Religious Freedom, Coalition For Religious Freedom
- Eagles and Dollars, Steven Montgomery
- Glasnost and Perestroika, Steven Montgomery
- Basic Communism, Clarence B. Carson
- Our Globe Under Seige, Robert Morris
- The Suicide of Europe, Sturdza
- Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Anthony Sutton
- Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, Anthony Sutton
- Wedemeyer Reports, General Albert C. Wedemeyer
- Communist Party USA, Published by the U.S. Government
- Leftwing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, Lenin
- On the Alliance of the Working Class and the Peasantry, Lenin
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Lenin
- The Right of Nations to Self-Determination, Lenin
- On the National Question and Proletarian Internationalism, Lenin
- The Philby Conspiracy, Bruce Page, David Leitch
- Coming Out Of The Ice: An Unexpected Life, Victor Herman
- Cuba Betrayed, Batista
- 46 Angry Men: UNO Violations in Katanga, Western Islands
- The Politician, Robert Welch
- KGB Today: The Hidden Hand, John Barron
- A Study of Communism, J. Edgar Hoover
- Red Fog Over America, William Guy Carr
- Men Without Faces, Louis Frances Budenz
- Red Decade, Lyons
- 13 Curious Errors About Money, Paul Bakewell
- “The Internal Threat to the American Way of Life,” Ezra Taft Benson
- The Three Faces of Revolution, Fred Schwarz
- Monimbo, Moss and de Borchgrave
- The Enemies of Christ, David B. Jorgensen
- The Communist Capitalist Alliance, Harold Pease
- The Creature from Jekyll Island, Griffin
- The Great and Abominable Church of the Devil, Hans V. Andersen
- Many are Called but Few are Chosen, Hans V. Andersen
- Changing Commands, John F. McManus
- New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies, Sill
- The Life of John Birch, Robert Welch
- None Dare Call it Treason, Stormer
- None Dare Call it Treason: 25 years later, Stormer
- The White Book of the JBS for 1961, John Birch Society
- The Coming of World War III, Richard T. Osborne
- Richard Nixon, Gary Allen
- The Last Great Nation on Earth, Rose L. Martin
- The Blue Book, John Birch Society
- Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy
- NEA: Propaganda Front of the Radical Left, Sally D. Reed
- Inspired Prophetic Warnings, Compiled by N. B. Lundwall
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn
- Prophetic Warnings to Modern America, Dwayne S. Crowther
- “Report of the CPSU Central Committee, XXVth Congress,” Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Revolutionary Continuity: The Early Years 1848-1947, Farrell Dobbs
- Revolutionary Continuity: Birth of the Communist Movement 1918-1922, Farrell Dobbs
- The Moulding of Communists, Meyer
- Prophesy and Modern Times, W. Cleon Skousen
- Toward a New World Order, McAlvaney
- Report from Iron Mountain, Dial Press
- The Invisible Government, Dan Smoot
- Beware Metro and Regional Government, Courtney
- Background to Betrayal: The Tragedy of Vietnam, Hillaire Du Berrier
- The Road Ahead to Socialism, Flynn
- Being Free, [I've since lost this book and forgotten the author's name]
- The Insiders, John F. McManus
- American Farmers Movement, Shannon
- The Rockefeller File, Gary Allen
- Say No to the NWO, Gary Allen
- The Kohler Strike, Petro
- Shanghai Conspiracy: The Sorge Spy Ring, Willoughby
- While You Slept, Flynn
- Seeds of Treason, Ralph De Toledano
- Nine Men Against America, Rosalie M. Gordon
- The Peoples Pottage, Garet Garrett
- The Whole of their Lives, Benjamin Gitlow
- The Actor, Alan Stang
- The Web of Subversion, Burnham
- A New Constitution for a New Country, M. Oliver
- Ill Fares the Land, Van Gordon
- Roosevelt’s Communist Manifesto, Josephson
- A Basic History of the United States (five volume set), Clarence B. Carson
- Rebirth of Liberty, Clarence B. Carson
- Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United States Constitution, Edwin Viera
- The Siecus Circle, Chambers
- The Book of Isaiah, Avraham Gileadi
- The Last Days, Avraham Gileadi
- New Lies for Old, Golitsyn
- The Perestroika Deception, Golitsyn
- Biographical Dictionary of the Left (multi-volume set), Francis X. Gibbons
- Socialist Network, Nesta Webster
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