This list I have compiled isn’t in any particular order, except for the last book. It is just a handful of many books that may reinforce, challenge, and/or change the readers’ worldview. All of them are either in print and/or available on Amazon except one, which has been banned by Amazon but is available from its publisher.
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Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask
As a young junior high school conservative, I defended Richard Nixon against my liberal classmates. At the age of twenty-nine, a friend loaned me Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask by Gary Allen. Allen points out that Nixon was not a conservative, to say the least. Under the Nixon Administration, we got the unconstitutional Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has wreaked havoc on American manufacturing. He opened up Communist China, which eventually led not only to diplomatic recognition but to Communist China’s global dominance. Nixon allowed technological transfers to the Soviet Union, making it possible for the Soviets to make nuclear missiles with multiple warheads. After reading the book, I stopped defending Nixon. This book opened my eyes to the influence and power of what is now known as the Deep State.
The Best Enemy Money Can Buy:
This book, written by Professor Anthony Sutton of the Hoover Institute, documents how elements in our U.S. government have been funding, aiding, and abetting The Soviet Union even before the Bolshevik Revolution. We are still aiding and abetting our enemies. Sutton wrote a series of books that I also recommend, including Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.
Memoirs by David Rockefeller
Published in 2002, Memoirs is an autobiography of David Rockefeller, whom I consider one of the evilest Americans who lived in the last 100 years. (Armand Hammer, Henry Kissinger, and Zbigniew Brzezinski are three more.) Why do I draw that conclusion? In David’s own words from his biography:
“For more than a century, ideological extremists, at either end of the political spectrum, have seized upon well-publicized incidents, such as my encounter with Castro, to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal, working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists,’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto determination practiced in past centuries.”
Rockefeller admitted to treason, but the Department of Justice wasn’t interested in prosecuting him.
The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
I had the honor of helping to sponsor a speaking tour of the author back in the mid-1990s. This powerful and well-documented book exposes how the Federal Reserve Bank was created in complete secrecy. It explains how the Fed creates money out of thin air, how it manipulates the economy, how it is an instrument of war, and that the Fed is not an arm of the U.S. government but a cartel between bankers-not your local bank, however- and the government.
The Health Hazards of Homosexuality
This book, like most books that present factual info on this subject, has been banned from Amazon. Most Americans have been bullied into silence lest they be accused of being called some “phobe” with new phobias being minted on a regular basis. We are not supposed to bring up facts like those who engage in unsafe sexual practices generally have shorter lifespans than those who don’t. Indeed, governments at all levels tell us that we must celebrate these lifestyles, and governments are spending millions of dollars doing just that. Thankfully, those who lead this movement have been experiencing some pushback. A book like this will help those pushing back with much-needed information. The book is available from Mass Resistance: massresistance.org
Death by Government by R.J. Rummel
This book, authored by a liberal professor from the University of Hawaii, demonstrates the deadliness of government. Professor Rummel proves that more people have been murdered by totalitarian governments in the 20th century in peacetime than in all of the wars of the 20th Century. Professor Rummel coined the word “democide.”
Tornado In a Junkyard
This book, authored by a friend and a former atheist and written in layman’s terms, refutes evolution, one of the most destructive ideas that mankind has faced, leading to the loss of faith in God. While Mr. Perloff doesn’t claim that all evolutionists are racist, he shows the readers its racist roots. Perloff also points out that evolution influenced Joe Stalin, leading him to reject Christianity and embrace communism.
Christianity and the Constitution: The Faith of Our Founding Fathers
Colonel John Eidsmoe, a friend and Constitutional attorney, refutes the argument that the framers of the US Constitution were deists. He makes the case that John Calvin was one of the founders of the United States. Calvin, of course, lived long before the US, but his Biblical concept of innate depravity led to the founders having a separation of powers. Colonel Eidsmoe contends that the U.S. Constitution could only have been written by those with a Christian worldview. John Adams affirmed Colonel Eidsmoe when he said the U.S. Constitution is for a “moral and religious” people.
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
This book is an antidote for self-loathing whites who believe that our nation’s founders were all white supremacists who invented slavery. Professor Thomas Sowell, now a nonagenarian, writes that slavery has been around since recorded history and that it wasn’t until close to the end of slavery that was racism used to justify it. He also explains how Muslins introduced slavery to Black Africa and Great Britain and how the United States had a leading role in ending slavery. I also recommend his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhSaV999ZAA
Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation Against America
Mary Grabar, a Camp Constitution instructor, exposes Howard Zinn’s blatant anti-Americanism. Zinn’s book Peoples History of the US has been used in our nation’s government schools to promote a hatred of our nation and its history. Zinn has a particular hatred of Christopher Columbus. Mary sets the record straight on the great explorer.
The U.S. Constitution
While not a book, it is something that most elected officials, especially those at the federal level, don’t want you to read because it will show that they, while claiming to uphold it, have been spending most of their political careers violating it. Don’t believe me? Just get on a mailing list of any of our federal elected officials. Almost everything they brag about in their E-mails is blatantly unconstitutional, but they know that the vast majority of the voters know nothing about the proper role of members of Congress. (For a free pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution, E-mail me at campconstitution1@gmail.com
The Bible
I put this book, which I believe is the Inspired Word of God, last because it is the most important. For centuries, enemies of God have done their utmost to keep it from you. There are at least 52 countries, either Muslim or Communist, where the Bible is illegal. While it is still legal in Western Europe and Canada, one can go to jail for proclaiming some of the teachings of the Bible. I will let some of our nation’s founders make the case for the Bible:
“The Bible contains the most profound philosophy, the most perfect morality, and the most refined policy that ever was conceived upon earth.” John Adams
“[The Bible] is of all books in the world that which contributes most to make men good, wise, and happy.” John Quincy Adams
“Were you to ask me to recommend the most valuable book in the world, I should fix on the Bible as the most instructive, both to the wise and ignorant.”” Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress, and Director of the U.S. Mint
“Let us therefore persevere steadfastly in distributing the Scriptures far and near, and without note or comment. We are assured that they ‘are profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16).’” John Jay
“The Bible contains more truths than any other book in the world.” Benjamin Rush
I am offering free copies of the Bible until my supply runs out. Use the same E-mail listed above if you would like one.