Recommended Books
The following are patriotic books from LDS Authors. Click on a book for a description, reviews, and purchase info…
- A Glorious Standard: For All Mankind (Christopher S. Bentley)
- An Enemy Hath Done This (Ezra Taft Benson)
- Awakening to our Awful Situation (Jack Monnett)
- Beneath the Tide: Who Really Runs the World? (Ken Bowers)
- Hiding In Plain Sight (Ken Bowers)
- Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen (H. Verlan Andersen)
- Prophets Principles and National Survival
- The 5000-Year Leap (W. Cleon Skousen)
- The Book of Mormon
- The Book of Mormon and the Constitution (H. Verlan Andersen)
- The Great and Abominable Church of the Devil (H. Verlan Andersen)
- The Hidden Things of Darkness (Christopher S. Bentley)
- The Legal Basis of a Free Society
- The Majesty of God’s Law (W. Cleon Skousen)
- The Making of America (W. Cleon Skousen)
- The Naked Capitalist (W. Cleon Skousen)
Add a comment below to let us know what books(s) you suggest and why…
June 24th, 2009 at 8:09 am
I just added a list to the side of my blog of things to read….
here is a list President Ezra Taft Benson suggested in his talk: “A Race Against Time” 18; also in TL 82)
The Constitution of the United States, by Mussatti
The Cliches of Socialism, by Weaver
The Mainspring of Human Progress, by Weaver
Economics in One Lesson, by Hazlitt
The Admiral’s Log, by Admiral Ben Moreell
I also just read Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and it was a very good read!
June 30th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Everything by Christopher S. Bentley. Freedomslight.net
No, I am not Chris, and I do not benefit from folks buying his books, unless they join in the fight for freedom, then we all benefit. ;-D
June 30th, 2009 at 11:16 am
I’m reading Cliches on Socialism and I find it very helpful. We’ll need to know how to combat the emotional appeals of Socialism (aka cliches) which lack logic. Basically, Socialism is a form of legal robbery, and there is no logic to that. Ken
September 1st, 2009 at 4:16 pm
“The Moral Basis for a Free Society” by H. Verlan Andersen compiled by Hans V. Andersen is very good and opened my eyes.
September 1st, 2009 at 11:13 pm
An enemy hath done this by Ezra Taft Benson
The Book of Mormon and the Constitution by H. Verlan Anderson
There are many more I could list, but these should both by required reading for any Latter Day Saint
http://patriotsaints.blogspot.com
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:43 am
Anybody know if there’s an online link to Admiral Ben Moreell’s book, “The Admiral’s Log,” mentioned by Lisa (lost pezhead) above? After a quick google search I couldn’t find any.
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I’m taking the home study course on “The Making of America” by W. Cleon Skousen. It is EXCELLENT and not nearly as expensive as a normal college course. You can find the materials on line at the National Center for Constitutional Studies. They have lots of great materials you can purchase for reasonable prices.
September 6th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
I was just told about this website and I think it looks wonderful. I have read several of the above mentioned books and they are a must read. I would also like to recommend a book called: Awakening To Our Awful Situation Warnings From the Nephite Prophets , by Jack Monnett, PhD…This is an eye opening book just like Hiding in Plain Sight- except Brother Monnett uses the Book Of Mormon to show what is happening and why. If you want it and can’t find it, please feel free to e-mail me and I can try to help you get it.
September 7th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Regarding the recommendation of “Awakening To Our Awful Situation – Warnings From the Nephite Prophets” , by Jack Monnett, PhD. It is harder to find the printed book these days, but I have the AUDIO BOOK available here: http://www.latterdayconservative.com/store/
October 19th, 2009 at 7:26 am
“The Naked Capitalist” (A review and commentary on Dr. Carroll Quigley’s book “Tragedy and Hope”) by Cleon Skousen
“The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen
“None Dare Call It Conspiracy” by Gary Allen
http://www.captaincanadacrusades.ca/articles/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy%5B1%5D.pdf
“God, Family, Country: Our Three Greatest Loyalties” by Ezra Taft Benson
“This Nation Shall Endure” by Ezra Taft Benson
“The Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith
“The Two Treatises of Government” by John Locke
“The Law” by Frederic Bastiat
http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
“The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude” by Etienne de la Boetie
http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/laboetie.html
“The Great Prologue” by Mark E. Petersen
“The Government of God” by John Taylor
http://www.archivepublishers.com/html/34.html
“The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
“Revealed Educational Principles and the Public Schools” by Jack Monnett
http://www.archivepublishers.com/homeschoolbooks.html
October 19th, 2009 at 10:00 am
For all who are interested in Latterday Preparedness…..
You may like to join http://www.ldsavow.com
and you will find lots more than books….
A good start, is Roger K Young’s books : As a Theif in The Night
Dreams and Visions of the Last Days
and more….
Happy to help you prepare for our Savior’s Second Coming….
Cheers, Vicki [Western Australia]
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Amy, I think I want to be your friend! I thought I was the only one weird enough to have read/want to read all these books!
Anything by Jerald Newquist is great too.
May I also suggest going to lds.org and going to “prepare a talk” and put in “government” under “search”. There is some great stuff there.
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:44 am
David Frum, wiki, had an interesting method of finding the core books to read on a subject:
“When I was in law school, I devised my own idiosyncratic solution to the problem of studying a topic I knew nothing about. I’d wander into the library stacks, head to the relevant section, and pluck a book at random. I’d flip to the footnotes, and write down the books that seemed to occur most often. Then I’d pull them off the shelves, read their footnotes, and look at those books. It usually took only 2 or 3 rounds of this exercise before I had a pretty fair idea of who were the leading authorities in the field. After reading 3 or 4 of those books, I usually had at least enough orientation in the subject to understand what the main questions at issue were — and to seek my own answers, always provisional, always subject to new understanding, always requiring new reading and new thinking”
I think this is something Nibley did too, if I remember right.
Point is, if you apply this method to consitutional studies, you will always come up with these books:
Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1969
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, 1967
Wood’s book is the gift that keeps on giving, well worth reading and re-reading! It took me about 10 months to get through it. (I don’t read non-fiction that fast. I don’t know how TRoosevelt managed to read a couple of books every day. Same with Churchill. Or TJefferson)
Bailyn’s book — always mentioned in the footnotes; it’s much shorter, 380 pages, but I thought it had a few boring chapters. Still, one of those touchstone works on Constitutional development.
March 18th, 2010 at 10:11 am
I just stumbled upon this site today in searching for a copy of “The Proper Role of Government.” Great info here. For those who speak Portuguese or Spanish there is a very informative book by an Argentine author by the name of Walter Graziano entitled, “Did Hitler Win the War?” (in Portuguese: “Hitler Ganhou a Guerra?”) Recent and well researched, Graziano talks of the forces behind the push for one-world government. If any are interested, send me an e-mail and I will return it with this book as a pdf attachement.
Regards to all
Mike Hanson – Porto Velho, Brazil
March 23rd, 2010 at 3:42 am
“The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority,” by Rose Wilder Lane or Henry Grady Weaver’s adaptation of Lane’s book, entitled, “The Mainspring of Human Progress.” These books celebrate the idea of human freedom.
June 6th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
the book “wisdom for our time ” by Daniel w. Gudeman
10 chapters. 1 is wisdom modern? 2 development vs. self destruction.3 towards an open mind,4 knowledge vs.ignorance,5 truth vs. falsehood, ,6 leadership vs.anarchy, 7 individualism vs. equality, 8 love vs. narcissism, 9 excellence vs. mediocrity,10 morale vs. apathy. I have read all the others and this is also excellent.
July 21st, 2010 at 8:04 am
The Coming Aristocracy by Oliver DeMille
and his audio FourLostAmericanIdeals.com
November 18th, 2010 at 10:24 am
NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY by Gary Allen, 1971 Originally published by Concord Press. In a talk given by President Ezra Taft Benson he recommended members read this book. I purchased and read it… it is must read. Great book!!!!
March 26th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
I ENCOURAGE ALL TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES IN THE PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM AND THE TEACHING OF OUR CHURCH LEADERS, WHO HAVE BEEN TRYING TO EDUCATE US ON THIS ISSUE CONTINUOUSLY DESPITE OUR SELFISH DESIRES TO IGNORE OR GIVE LESS MEANING TO THE THINGS WE DON’T WANT TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR.
June 27th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
The full Bastiat Collection is freely available online now in PDF form. It should be on the list. After all, it was Benson’s source.
I also found the FairTax books by Boortz to have quite a bit of righteous and freedom-promoting content notwithstanding their slant.
August 15th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
These Book of Mormon outlines are excellent!
The Book of Mormon Protocols
http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=59461787&access_key=key-kd6ujuj50cc0hyklhr5&page=1&viewMode=list
Secret Combinations
http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=49955085&access_key=key-14h35mhuq940ffv9uo62&page=1&viewMode=list
The Protocols of Zion
http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=59816567&access_key=key-yf6ipysbntn16fb81rg&page=1&viewMode=list
Plagiarism of the devils Secret Society
http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=49567641&access_key=key-jo591sb9nd55zgvxemb&page=1&viewMode=list