We all know the media’s biased to the far-left, academia’s run by Trotskyite wackos, and librarians are card-carrying pinkos. Hence why finding right-wing books is about as easy as finding an innocent person on Death Row.
Even bookstores, meant to be organised around the profit motive, doggedly ignore the huge commercial appeal of books by conservatives. Try heading into one of the big bookstores today and buying an Ann Coulter, a Rush Limbaugh, or a Sean Hannity. “I’m sorry, we don’t stock evil American Nazis — but can I interest you in a fascinating new title on how Islam is the religion of peace?”
Liberals want to censor conservative ideas because liberalism can only operate in a vacuum in which debate has been banned, facts kept hidden, and nobody is ever — ever — allowed to talk about Chappaquiddick. (If, like most, you’ve never heard of this place, suffice it to say liberal Democrat Senator Teddy Kennedy had a swimming time there. Mary Jo Kopechne, less so. See http://www.conservapedia.com/Ted_Kennedy.)
So, to keep fellow conservatives up-to-date with the best right-wing reading out there, I’ve compiled a list. I’ll add to it as I discover new titles — if the Left doesn’t burn them first.
Ann Coulter
Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right (Random House USA Inc, 2002)http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slander-Ann-Coulter/dp/1400046610
Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (Random House USA Inc, 2003) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Treason-Ann-Coulter/dp/1400050308/ref=ed_oe_h
Godless: The Church of Liberalism (Crown Forum, 2006) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Godless-Church-Liberalism-Ann-Coulter/dp/1400054206/ref=ed_oe_h
Michael Gove
Celsius 7/7: How the West’s Policy of Appeasement Has Provoked Yet More Fundamentalist Terror – and What Has to be Done Now (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celsius-7-Michael-Gove/dp/0297851462/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209304850&sr=1-2
Friedrich August von Hayek
The Road to Serfdom (University of Chicago Press, 1944) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Serfdom-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415253896/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209305114&sr=1-1
Peter Hitchens
The Abolition of Britain: From Lady Chatterley to Tony Blair (Quartet Books, 1999) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abolition-Britain-Peter-Hitchens/dp/0704381176/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209305492&sr=1-2
Maurice Cowling
Mill and Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 1963) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mill-Liberalism-Cowling/dp/0521047420/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209305799&sr=1-1
Irving Kristol
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (The Free Press, 1995) http://www.amazon.com/Neoconservatism-Autobiography-Idea-Irving-Kristol/dp/0028740211
Irwin Stelzer
Neo-conservatism (Atlantic Books, 2004) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neo-conservatism-Irwin-Stelzer/dp/1843543516
William J Bennett
The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals The Free Press, 1998 http://www.amazon.com/Death-Outrage-Clinton-Assault-American/dp/0684813726
Christopher Hitchens
No One Left to Lie to: The Values of the Worst Family (Verso, 2000) http://www.amazon.com/No-One-Left-Lie-Values/dp/1859842844
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihin
Leftism Revisited: From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot (Regnery, 1991) http://www.amazon.com/Leftism-Revisited-Sade-Marx-Hitler/dp/0895265370
Patrick Devlin
The Enforcement of Morals (Oxford University Press 1996) http://www.amazon.com/Enforcement-Morals-Patrick-Devlin/dp/0195003055
Jo-Anne Nadler
Too Nice to be a Tory: It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To (Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2004) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Too-Nice-Tory-Party-Want/dp/0743220765
Nick Cohen
What’s Left? How Liberals Lost Their Way (HarperPerennial, 2007) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whats-Left-Liberals-Lost-Their/dp/0007229704/ref=pd_sim_b_img_20
