Coulter’s Reading List
De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Plato, The Republic
Machiavelli, The Prince
Locke, Two Treatise of Government
Aristotle, Politics
Wilson, Political Organizations
Madison, Hamilton, Jay etal, The Federalist Papers
Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
Holloway, Carson 2008. The Way of Life: John Paul II and the Challenge of Modernity, Waco,
TX: Baylor University Press
Schneewind, J.B. 2010. Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy, London: Oxford University
Press
Heclo, Hugo 2008. On Thinking Institutionally, New York: Paradigm Publishers
Kotler, Milton 2005. Neighborhood Government: The Local Foundations of Political Life. Lexington Books
Ostrom, Vincent 2008. The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American
Experiment, 3rd Ed. Lexington Books
Folkertsma’s Reading List
Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism
Amity Shlaes, The Forgotten Man
Walter Russell Mead, God and Gold
Stanton’s Reading List
Paul Collier (2009). War, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places, New York:
Harper Collins Publishers.
Robert Gilpin (1981). War & Change in World Politics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press
Martin Meredith (2005). The Fate of Africa, From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of
Despair: A History of 50 Years of Independence, New York: Public Affairs
Dambisa Moyo (2009). Dead Ai: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for
Africa, New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.
Omar Nasiri (2006). Inside the Jihad, New York: Basic Books
Gerard Prunier (2009). Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of
a Continental Catastrophe, Oxford University Press.
Stephen M. Saideman and R. William Ayres (2008). For Kin or Country: Xenophobia,
Nationalism, and War, New York: Columbia University Press
Thucydides (1954). The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition, Edited by Finley,
Translated by Warner. New York: Penguin Books
Kenneth Waltz (1979). Theory of International Politics, New York: McGraw-Hill.
Kenneth Waltz (1959). Man, The State, and War, A Theoretical Analysis, New York: Columbia
University Press
Alexander Wendt (1999). Social Theory of International Politics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press
Amos Guiora. (2007). Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism New York: Aspen Publishers
Todd Landman and Edzia Carvalho (2010). Measuring Human Rights New York: Routledge
Larry Diamond and Marc. F. Plattner (2010). Democratization in Africa, Progress and Retreat,
2nd Ed. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Jean Bethke Elshtain (2003). Just War Against Terror, New York: Basic Books
R. Hrair Dekmejian (2007). Spectrum of Terror, Washington, D.C.: CQ Press
Barry R. Posen (1984). The Sources of Military Doctrine, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
Gordon Adams and Cindy Williams (2010). Buying National Security, How America Plans and
Pays for Its Global Role and Safety at Home, New York: Routledge
Stephen Ambrose (1996). Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the
Opening of the American West, New York: Touchstone
Anything at all written by Rudyard Kipling
Kengor’s List (General List for All Kengor Classes)
David Remnick, Lenin’s Tomb
Thomas C. Reed, At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War
Alexander N. Yakovlev, A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia
Alexander Litvinenko and Yuri Felshtinsky, Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring
Back KGB Terror
Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko, Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander
Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
Leon Aron, Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life
Richard Pipes, Communism: A History (A Modern Library Chronicles Book)
Richard Pipes, Property and Freedom
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking
Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai: Communism in Mao Tse-tung’s China
Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao (Li was Mao’s personal physician)
Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story
John Barron, Operation Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin (Sino-Soviet split)
M. Stanton Evans, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy
Steven Mosher, A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child
Policy
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China
Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father
Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot, Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Gordon Cucullu, Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin
Armando Valladares, Against All Hope (about his years in Castro’s gulag)
Brian Latell, After Fidel: Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba’s Revolution
Anthony DePalma, The Man Who Invented Fidel: Cuba, Castro, and Herbert L.
Matthews of The New York Times
Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Humberto Fontova, Exposing the Real Che Guevara, And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize
Him
George Weigel, The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, & Politics Without God
Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack
Tommy Franks, American Soldier
Yosef Bodanky, The Secret History of the Iraq War
The David Kay Report
The Charles Duelfer Report
The 9/11 Commission Report
The Bush Administration’s 2002 “National Security Strategy” Report |