INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY
RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Compiled by J. David Gowdy
jdgowdy@wjmi.org
The Federalist Papers
By Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
(available in Paperback from Mentor, Penguin, and Bantam books)
An American Primer
Edited by Daniel J. Boorstin
(contains the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, George Washington's Inaugural and Farewell Addresses, Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and other important U. S. historical documents)
(available in paperback from Meridian (Penguin))
Discourses Concerning Government
By Algernon Sidney
(Edited by Thomas G. West, Liberty Fund, Inc., 1996)
An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government
By John Locke
(available in various paperback compilations, including Social Contract, Oxford University Press, 1960)
Vindicating the Founders
By Thomas G. West
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1997)
Never Before in History: America's Inspired Birth
By Gary Amos and Richard Gardiner
(Pandas Publications, Haughton Publishing Company, 1998)
Miracle at Philadelphia
By Catherine Drinker Bowen
(Paperback, Little Brown & Company, Inc., 1986)