Policy Circle Reading List
This Month’s Suggestion:
Free Range Kids, Leonore Skenazy
FREE RANGE KIDS has become a national movement, sparked by the incredible response to Lenore Skenazy’s piece about allowing her 9-year-old ride the subway alone in NYC. Parent groups argued about it, bloggers, blogged, spouses became uncivil with each other, and the media jumped all over it. A lot of parents today, Skenazy says, see no difference between letting their kids walk to school and letting them walk through a firing range. Any risk is seen as too much risk. But if you try to prevent every possible danger or difficult in your child? We parents have to realize that the greatest risk of all just might be trying to raise a child who never encounters choice or independence.
Past Suggestions:
Please review the following list of suggested books. To help you pick your next read, they are organized by year of conversation topics and also tagged as suggested discussion books or foundational reads. Look for the following tags for guidance.
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert Gates | Amazon Listing
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America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
Bret Stephens | Amazon Listing
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Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America
Dick and Liz Cheney | Amazon Listing
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Choosing to Lead: American Foreign Policy for a Disordered World
John Hay Initiative | Amazon Listing
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Free to Choose
Milton and Rose Friedman | Amazon Listing
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Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt| Amazon Listing
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The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek | Amazon Listing
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A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Sowell | Amazon Listing
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The Mystery of Capital
Hernando de Soto | Amazon Listing
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Excuse Me, Professor
Lawrence Reed | Amazon Listing
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The Conservative Heart
Arthur Brooks | Amazon Listing
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The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith | Amazon Listing
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The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
Ludwig von Mises | Amazon Listing
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Ideas Have Consequences
Richard Weaver | Amazon Listing
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Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
Deirdre McCloskey | Amazon Listing
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Triumphs of Joseph
Robert Woodson | Amazon Listing
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Please Stop Helping Us
Jason Riley | Amazon Listing
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Inside American Education
Thomas Sowell | Amazon Listing
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I Got Schooled: The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America’s Education Gap
M. Night Shymylan | Amazon Listing
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Coming Apart
Charles Murray | Amazon Listing
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White Guilt
Shelby Steele | Amazon Listing
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Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment
Michael Javen Fortner | Amazon Listing
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Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance | Amazon Listing
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Closing of the American Mind
Allen Bloom | Amazon Listing
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The War on Cops
Heather MacDonald | Amazon Listing
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The Dreamland
Sam Quinones | Amazon Listing
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On Liberty
John Stuart Mill | Amazon Listing
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The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay | Amazon Listing
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Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville | Amazon Listing
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Introduction to American Citizenship
Thomas Krannawitter | Amazon Listing
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The United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence
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Keeping the Republic
Mitch Daniels | Amazon Listing
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The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt | Amazon Listing
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The True Believer,Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Eric Hoffer | Amazon Listing
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Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinksy | Amazon Listing
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Start With Why
Simon Sinek | Amazon Listing
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The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah | Amazon Listing
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Where'd you Go Bernadette
Maria Semple | Amazon Listing
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Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
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The Kitchen House
Kathleen Grissom | Amazon Listing