Required reading will include selections from the following books/articles:
Liberty Markets and the Great Books Spring 2014 Reading List Animal Farm by George Orwell Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Common Sense by Thomas Paine Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (A Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy Book) by Robert Higgs Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Notes on Democracy by H. L. Mencken Our Enemy, the State by Albert Jay Nock Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S. Wood The Grapes of Wrath by Jolm Steinbeck The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in Ame rica We the Living by Ayn Rand