Prime Reading
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Preparation for work that may affect the fate of humanity requires
not just technical studies, but a broad, general background in many
fields, and certain basic skills, to provide a social, philosophic,
and historical perspective.

Basic skills
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* Norman Lewis, How to Read Better and Faster, New York: Crowell,
 1958, 1990.
* Rudolf F. Flesch, How to Write, Speak and Think More Effectively,
 New York: Harper, 1960, 1994.
* Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, New
 York: Simon & Schuster, 1972, 1997.
* William Strunk & E.B. White, Elements of Style, New York:
 Macmillan, 1979, 1995.
* Joseph D. Novak & D. Bob Gowin, Learning How to Learn, New York:
 Cambridge, 1984.
* Wayne A. Wickelgren, How to Solve Problems, San Francisco:
 Freeman, 1974.
* David R. Beasley, How to Use a Research Library, New York:
 Oxford, 1988.
* Jean Dane, How to Use a Law Library, Sweet & Maxwell.
* Robert A. Day, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper,
 Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1988.

The Classics
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Read most of the works in the set, A Great Books of the Western World,
in order.

Philosophy and Religion
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* The Comparative Study Bible, Grand Rapids: Zonderan, 1984.
* Willis Barnstone, The Other Bible, New York: Harpercollins, 1984.
* Al-Qur'an (Koran), tr. Ahmed Ali, Princeton: Princeton U. Press,
 1984.
* Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, New York:
 Simon & Schuster, 1945.
* E.D. Klemke, R. Hollinger & A.D. Kline eds, Introductory Readings
 in the Philosophy of Science, Buffalo: Prometheus, 1988.
* S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action, New York:
 Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978, 1991.
* A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic, New York: Dover, 1952;
 Foundations of Empirical Knowledge, New York: St. Martins, 1969.
* Otto Neurath (Ed.), Rudolf Carnap (Ed.), Charles F. W. Morris
 (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, Chicago: U.
 Chicago Press, 1955.
* Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be, New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1952.
* D.T. Suzuki, Manual of Zen Buddhism, New York: Grove, 1960.

History, Biography and Futurics
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* A Arnold Toynbee, Study of History, Vol. 1-10 abr. D.C.
 Somervell, New York: Oxford, 1947-57.
* Walter Prescott Webb, The Great Frontier, Austin: U. Tex. Press,
 1964.
* Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1954,
 1989.
* Bertrand de Jouvenel, The Art of Conjecture, New York: Basic
 Books, 1967.

Ecology and Arcology
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* Paul & Anne Ehrlich, The Population Explosion, New York: Simon &
 Schuster, 1990.
* Donella Meadows et al., Limits to Growth, New York: Universe
 Press, 1972, 1977.
* Garrett De Bell ed, The New Environmental Handbook, San
 Francisco: Friends of the Earth, 1980.
* George Dantzig & Thomas Saaty, Compact City, San Francisco:
 Freeman, 1973.
* Paolo Soleri, Arcology: The City in the Image of Man, Cambridge:
 MIT Press, 1969.
* C.R. Chapman & D. Morrison, Cosmic Catastrophes, New York:
 Plenum, 1989.
* E.O. Wilson ed, Biodiversity, Washington, DC: Nat. Acad. Press,
 1988.

Government, Law and International Relations
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* Clarence Streit, Atlantic Union Now, Washington, DC: Freedom &
 Union, 1962.
* Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations, New York: Knopf, 1967.
* Ephraim London ed, World of Law, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.

Mathematics and Logic
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* George Polya, How to Solve It, Princeton: Princeton U. Press,
 1945, 1988.
* Rudolf Carnap, Foundations of Logic and Mathematics, Chicago: U.
 Chicago Press, 1939.
* Stephen C. Kleene, Mathematical Logic, New York: John Wiley, 1967.
* Martin Davis, Computability and Unsolvability, New York: Dover,
 1982.
* Paul Halmos, Naive Set Theory, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1974,
 1987, and A Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces, New York:
 Springer-Verlag, 1974.
* William R. Scott, Group Theory, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall,
 1964.
* Saunders MacLane & Garrett Birkhoff, Algebra, New York:
 Macmillan, 1967.
* Steven A. Gaal, Point-Set Topology, New York: Academic, 1964.
* Michel Gondran & Michel Minoux, Graphs and Algorithms, New York:
 Wiley, 1984.
* M.M. Rao, Probability Theory with Applications, New York:
 Academic, 1984.
* Robert D. Luce, Games and Decisions, New York: Wiley, 1957.
* David E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and
 Machine Learning, Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1989.
* Trenchard More, collected papers on array theory, Cambridge: IBM,
 1978-87. Book hopefully being written.
* Donald Gross & Carl M. Harris, Fundamentals of Queueing Theory,
 New York: Wiley, 1974.
* Wayne Lee, Experimental Design and Analysis, San Francisco:
 Freeman, 1975.

Cybernetics and Information Theory
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* John R. Pierce, An Introduction to Information Theory, New York:
 Dover, 1980.
* Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Menlo Park, CA:
 Addison-Wesley.
* Bernard P. Zeigler, Theory of Modeling and Simulation, New York:
 Wiley, 1976.
* Ernest Davis, Representations of Commonsense Knowledge, San
 Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1990.
* Patrick Winston, Artificial Intelligence, Reading, MA:
 Addison-Wesley, 1984, 1992.
* E. Goles, Neural and Automata Networks, Boston: Kluwer Acad.,
 1990.
* Judea Pearl, Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for
 Computer Problem-Solving, Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1984.

Physics, Cosmology and Electronics
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* H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, H. Minkowski & H. Weyl, The Principle
 of Relativity, New York: Dover, 1950.
* Richard Feynman, The Theory of Fundamental Processes, New York:
 Addison-Wesley, 1961.
* Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu & Franck Laloë, Quantum
 Mechanics, A Vol. 1, A Vol. 2, New York: Wiley, 1977.
* H.P. Robertson & Thomas W. Noonan, Relativity and Cosmology,
 Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1969.
* C.W. Misner, K.S. Thorne & J.A. Wheeler, Gravitation, San
 Francisco: Freeman, 1973.
* Stephen W. Hawking & G.F.R. Ellis, The Large-Scale Structure of
 Space-Time, New York: Cambridge, 1973.
* M.B. Green, J.H. Schwarz & E. Witten, Superstring Theory, New
 York: Cambridge, Vol 1&2 1987, Vol 3 1990.
* Richard E. Sonntag, Introduction to Thermodynamics: Classical and
 Statistical, New York: Wiley, 1982.
* D.K. Arrowsmith & C.M. Place, An Introduction to Dynamical
 Systems, New York: Cambridge, 1990.
* David Pines, The Many-Body Problem, New York: W.A. Benjamin, 1962.
* Vladimir Z. Kresin, Fundamentals of Superconductivity, New York:
 Plenum, 1990.

Molecular Physics, Chemistry and Biology
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* Theodore Buyana, Molecular Physics, New York: World Scientific,
 1992.
* Geoffrey C. Maitland et al., Intermolecular Forces, New York:
 Oxford, 1981.
* Forrest Carter ed, Molecular Electronic Devices, New York: Marcel
 Dekker, A I 1982, A II 1987.
* David L. Beveridge & William L. Jorgensen eds, Computer
 Simulation of Chemical and Biomolecular Systems, New York: NY Acad.
 Sci., 1986.
* Reed & Kirk ed, Nanostructure Physics and Fabrication, New York:
 Academic, 1989.
* F.D. Warner et al., Cell Movement, A Vol. 1, A Vol. 2, New York:
 Wiley-Liss, 1989.
* Heinrich, Bauer & Kuchar ed, Physics and Technology of Submicron
 Structures, New York: Springer, 1988.

Technology and Space
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* K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation, New York: Anchor/Doubleday,
 1986.
* Gerard K. O'Neill, The High Frontier, New York: Morrow, 1977,
 1989.

Economics, Management, Society and Cognition
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* Everett M. Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations, New York: Free
 Press, 1983.
* Leo Schneiderman, The Psychology of Social Change, New York:
 Human Sci. Press, 1988.
* Fred Hirsch, Social Limits to Growth, Cambridge: Harvard U.
 Press, 1976.
* Paul Samuelson, Foundations of Economic Analysis, Cambridge:
 Harvard U. Press, 1983.
* Nicholas Georgescu-Roegan, The Entropy Law and the Economic
 Process, Cambridge: Harvard U. Press, 1971, 1978.
* Michael I. Posner, Foundations of Cognitive Science, Cambridge:
 MIT Press, 1989.

Corruption and Political Dysfunction
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* Rodney Stich, Defrauding America, 1994, Diablo Western Press,
 Inc., PO Box 5, Alamo, CA 94507, 800- 247-7389, $27.25 Ppd. Insider
 exposes massive federal corruption, corporate raiding, looting of
 savings and loans, drug smuggling, bankruptcy fraud, coverups of
 safety violations, and JFK assassination, particularly involving
 CIA and Justice Department.
* Terry Reed & John Cummings, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the
 CIA, 1994, Shapolsky Publishers Inc, 136 W 22nd St, New York, NY
 10011, 212/633-2022. Details of corruption involving the CIA, Bush
 and Clinton.
* William Greider, Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of
 American Democracy, 1992, Simon & Schuster. Describes faltering of
 the political process.
* Donald L. Bartlett & James B. Steele, America: What Went Wrong?,
 1992, Andrews & McMeel, 4900 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64112.
 Superficial, but some useful points.
* Gary H. Kah, En Route to Global Occupation, 1992, Huntington
 House Publishers, POB 53788, Lafayette, LA 70505. Superficial, but
 examines the global level.

Abuses of Constitution, Civil Rights
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* James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty,
 1994, St. Martin's Press, New York. Survey of official abuses, but
 neglects corporate abuses and the ultimate causes and solutions to
 both.
* Eugene Schroder, Constitution: Fact or Fiction, 1995, PO Box 89,
 Campo, CO 81029, 719/787-9958, $14.95. Exposition of Emergency
 Rule, established March 9, 1933, which continues to this day.
* Walter Karp, Liberty Under Siege, 1993, Franklin Square, New
 York.  Survey of some of the more obvious erosions of
 constitutional rights, but superficial treatment of the causes.
* Ron Cole, Sinister Twilight: A Tragedy Near Waco, and a Sinister
 Twilight in America, 1993, Unlimited Thought Bookstore, 5525 Blanco
 Rd. #112, San Antonio, TX 78216, $15.00 Ppd.
* Jack DeVault, The Waco Whitewash, 1994. Rescue Press, 8048
 Midcrown #11, San Antonio, TX 78218, $20.00 Ppd. Abuses by the
 federal judicial system.
* Bud & Ruth Schultz, It Did Happen Here: Recollections of
 Political Repression in America, 1989, U. Of California Press,
 Berkeley.
* Morton Halperin et al., The Lawless State: The Crimes of U.S.
 Intelligence Agencies, 1976, Penguin, New York. Survey of results
 of Church Committee Report and similar abuses.
* Frank J. Donner, The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of
 America's Political Intelligence System, 1980, Knopf, New York.
* Martin Cannon, The Controllers: Mind Control and Its Role in the
 'Alien' Abduction Phenomenon, 1990, 1996, 8211 Owensmouth Av #206,
 Canoga Park, CA 91304. $6.00. Survey of mind-control
 experimentation by U.S. Government.
* Julianne McKinney, Microwave Harassment & Mind- Control
 Experimentation, Electronic Surveillance Project, Association of
 National Security Alumni, PO Box 13625, Silver Spring, MD
 20911-3625, 301/608- 0143. $5.00. Exposé of mind-control
 experimentation by insider.
* James M. Collier & Kenneth F. Collier, Votescam: the Stealing of
 America, 1992, Victoria House Press, 67 Wall St #2411, New York, NY
 10005. $10.00. Report of investigations of how computerized
 elections are rigged. A manual for investigating vote fraud.
* Gerry Spence, With Justice for None, 1989, Penguin, New York.
 Abuses of the legal system.

Coverups and Secret Government
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* Anthony C. Sutton, America's Secret Establishment: An
 Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones, 1986, Liberty House
 Press, 2027 Iris, Billings, MT 59102. Traces historical roots of
 major members of U.S.  branch of Shadow Government, but doesn't
 cover decision- making structure.
* John Coleman, Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Committee of Three
 Hundred, 1992, America West Publishers, PO Box 2208, Carson City,
 NV 89702. Introduces major players in global Shadow Government, but
 lacks substantiation and may have misread the roles of some of
 them.  Makes case that rule is by 300 major families, a third of
 them British. Traces their control of almost every sector of
 society, and shows that much of their money comes from control of
 drug market, going back to China opium trade. But doesn't cover
 present executive structure.
* Burton Hersh, Old Boys : The American Elite and the Origins of
 the CIA, 1992, Scribners, New York. Traces the emergence of the CIA
 as executor of objectives of the ruling elite and examines their
 deficiencies.
* Loch K. Johnson, America's Secret Power: the CIA in a democratic
 society, 1989, Oxford, New York A sanitized depictionof this agency.
* Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, The CIA and American Democracy, 1989,
 Yale, New Haven. A sanitized depiction of this agency.
* L. Fletcher Prouty, JFK, the CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to
 Assassinate John F. Kennedy, 1992, Birch Lane, New York A; Secret
 Team : The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and
 the World, Institute for Historical Review. A JFK assassination as
 government plot.
* Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation, 1993, Thunder's Mouth, New
 York. Commentary on House investigation which concluded JFK
 assassination was a conspiracy.
* Bill Moyers, The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis,
 1988, 1990, Seven Locks Press, PO Box 27, Cabin John, MD 20818,
 310/320-2130. Discusses what came out of the Watergate and
 Iran-Contra scandals. Eloquent indictment, but no new revelations.
* William Greider, Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve
 Runs the Country, 1987, Simon & Schuster, New York. Describes the
 consequences of 1980 financial deregulation, which lays the basis
 for what is discussed by Rodney Stich.
* Gary Sick, October Surprise, 1991, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 110
 Gloucester Av, London NW18JA. Exposes deal to give Iran arms to
 keep hostages long enough to defeat Carter in 1980 election.
* Donald Axelrod, Shadow Government: the hidden world of public
 authorities and how they control $1 trillion dollars of your money,
 1992, Wiley, New York. Identifies how such public authorities
 function as a part of the Shadow Government.
* Timothy Good, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up, 1988,
 W.  Morrow, New York A; Alien Contact: Top-Secret UFO Files
 Revealed, 1993, W. Morrow, New York. A Raises important question:
 If these things are real, how are they affecting government: both
 visible and invisible.

Constitutional Principles
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* James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention, 1840.
 The definitive record of the proceedings of the Constitutional
 Convention of 1787.
* James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, The Federalist.
 Explanation of the proposed Constitution and arguments for adopting
 it.
* Bernard Schwartz, The Roots of the Bill of Rights, 1980, Chelsea
 House, New York. Includes much of debate needed to interpret
 Framers' intent.
* Merrill D. Peterson, ed., The Portable Thomas Jefferson, 1975,
 Penguin, New York. Major writings, especially his commentaries on
 the Constitution and its foundations.
* Ernest Barker, ed., Social Contract, 1960, Oxford U. Press,
 London.  Contains essays: John Locke, An Essay Concerning the True
 Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government; David Hume, Of the
 Original Contract; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract.
 These are the definitive treatises that lay the theoretical basis
 for republican government, and without which the Constitution
 cannot be fully understood.
* Leonard W. Levy, Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution,
 1988, Macmillan, New York. Scholar examines "original intent"
 doctrine and its alternatives.
* Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed, 1984, Independent
 Institute, 134 98th Av, Oakland, CA 94603. Traces legal foundations
 of right to keep and bear arms and shows how it is fundamental to
 all other rights.
* Clarence Streit, Atlantic Union Now, 1962, Freedom & Union Press,
 Washington, DC. Excellent analysis of how a federal constitution
 must be designed to be viable and effective.
* Jeffrey Abramson, We, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of
 Democracy, 1994, BasicBooks, New York. Good treatment of some of
 the key issues involving the jury system, including jury
 nullification, and how it has been perverted from its orginal form.
* Friedrich A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, 1960, U. of
 Chicago Press, Chicago. Examines conflicting political philosophies
 and their impacts on ideal constitutional governance.
* Walter Berns, Taking the Constitution Seriously, 1987, Madison
 Books, Lanham, MD. Makes case for returning to strict construction
 and compliance, but neglects rights to keep and bear arms and to
 assemble as independent militias.
* William R. Tonso, The Gun Culture and its Enemies, 1990, Second
 Amendment Foundation, James Madison Building, 12500 N.E. Tenth
 Place, Bellevue, WA 98005.

Solutions
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* Morgan Norval, The Militia in 20th Century America: A Symposium,
 1985 A; Larry Pratt, Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution and
 Citizens Militias, 1995. A Gun Owners Foundation, 5881 Leesburg
 Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041. Discusses the major factor missing
 from the political order that might make a difference.
* Martin Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993, Ballantine, New York.
 Superficial, and misses much that is needed, but hits some useful
 points.
* Senator Steve Symms & Larry Grupp, The Citizen's Guide to
 Fighting Government, 1994, Jameson Books, Inc., PO Box 738, Ottawa,
 IL 61350.  Handbook on political action.

Investigation and Expose
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* Michael McNulty, William Gazecki, Dan Gifford, Waco: The Rules of
 Engagement, 1997, SomFord Entertainment, VHS tape. Documentary
 footage exposing the lies of the government concerning the events
 at Mt.Carmel in 1993.
* Cover-up in Oklahoma, VHS tape. Documentary footage indicating
 government complicity in the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.
* Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton : The
 Unreported Stories, 1997, Regnery Publishing. Expose of government
 complicity in the Oklahoma City bombing, in the Vince Foster death,
 and in drug smuggling into Arkansas. Author was an investigative
 reporter for the London Sunday Telegraph, and chief of their
 Washington bureau, when he wrote it.
* A David Hoffman, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of
 Terror, 1998, Feral House Pr. Expose of the Oklahoma City bombing.
* Christopher Ruddy, The Strange Death of Vincent Foster : An
 Investigation, 1997, Free Press. Expose of the death of Vincent
 Foster, indicating that it was murder.
* David B. Kopel, Paul H. Blackman, No More Wacos : What's Wrong
 With Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It, 1997, Prometheus
 Books.  Excellent discussion of the ways the federal government is
 exceeding its constitutional powers.
* R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., and "Anonymous", The Impeachment of
 William Jefferson Clinton : A Political Docu-Drama, 1997, Regnery
 Publishing.  Presents argument and scenario for impeachment of the
 president.
* Coulter, Ann, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill
 Clinton, 1998, Regnery Publishing. Presents argument for
 impeachment of the president.
* McDougal, Jim, Arkansas Mischief : The Birth of a National
 Scandal, 1998, Henry Holt & Company. This is the book the author
 was probably killed to prevent the publishing of.
* Angus MacKenzie, Secrets : The CIA's War at Home, 1997, Univ.
 California Press.
* James Sanders, The Downing of Twa Flight 800, 1997, Zebra Books.
 Expose of the incident. The author and his wife were recently
 arrested under circumstances that suggest the government is not
 happy with the book.
* Michael Levine, Deep Cover, 1991, Dell Pub Co. Expose of
 corruption within the DEA and CIA by a former top DEA agent.
* Michael Levine, Laura Kavanau, The Big White Lie : The Deep Cover
 Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War : An
 Undercover Odyssey, 1994, Thunder's Mouth Pr. Expose of complicity
 of U.S.  government agencies in the spread of narcotics.
* Michael Levine, Laura Kavanau, Triangle of Death, 1997, Dell Pub
 Co.  Novel that is more like a documentary of U.S. government
 criminality.
* Quigley, Carroll, Tragedy and Hope, 1975, Gsg & Assoc. Exposes
 the Anglo American Establishment.
* Quigley, Carroll, Anglo American Establishment, 1981, Gsg &
 Assoc.  Further exposes the Anglo American Establishment.
* Quigley, Carroll, The Evolution of Civilizations, 1975, Liberty
 Fund.  Provides a coherent exposition of how civilizations develop.
* Halbrook, Stephen P., Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the
 Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876, 1998, Praeger.
* Lott, John R., More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and
 Gun-Control Laws, 1998, Univ. of Chicago Pr.
* Kleck, Gary, Point Blank : Guns and Violence in America, 1991,
 Aldine De Gruyter.
* Kleck, Gary; Kates, Don B., Jr., The Great American Gun Debate :
 Essays on Firearms & Violence, 1997, Pacific Research Inst for
 Public Policy.
* Kleck, Gary, Targeting Guns : Firearms and Their Control, 1997,
 Aldine De Gruyter.
* B Jacobs, David, The Threat : Alien Agenda, 1998, Simon &
 Schuster.  Analysis of reports from many abductees that build a
 picture of what the aliens may be trying to do.
* Col. Philip Corso (ret.), with William J. Birnes, The Day After
 Roswell, 1997, New York, Simon & Schuster.
* Kenn Thomas & Jim Keith, The Octopus: Secret Government and the
 Death of Danny Casolaro, 1996, Feral House, Portland, OR, $19.95
 hardback.
* Michele Moore, Oklahoma City: Day One, 1996, The Harvest Trust,
 Eagar, AZ, $29.95 paperback.
* M. Wesley Swearingen, FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose, 1994, South
 End Press, Boston, MA, $13.00 paperback.
* Tyrone Powers, Eyes to My Soul: The Rise or Decline of a Black
 FBI Agent, 1996, Majority Pr.
* Jonathan Karl, The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America's New
 Militias, 1995, HarperCollins, New York, $5.99 paperback.
* Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Stratton, The Tyranny of Good
 Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the
 Constitution in the Name of Justice, 2000, Prima Publishing, $19.96
 hardcover.
* Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of
 America - A Chronological Paper Trail, 1999, Conscience Pr., $39.95
 paperback.

Political Science and Constitutional Commentary
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* Antonin Scalia, Amy Gutmann (Ed.), A Matter of Interpretation,
 1998, Princeton Univ Pr. Speech by Supreme Court Justice Scalia on
 the principles and issues of constitutional interpretation,
 followed by comments by several scholars, followed by Scalia's
 rebuttals.
* David Boaz (Ed.), The Libertarian Reader : Classic and
 Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman, 1997, Free
 Pr. Anthology of key writings.
* Mansfield, Harvey C., Jr., America's Constitutional Soul, 1993,
 Johns Hopkins Univ Pr. Essays on the natural law foundations of
 constitutionalism and what is needed to return to constitutional
 compliance.
* Levy, Leonard W., Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution,
 1988, Macmillan. Analysis of original intent and the ways lawyers
 and judges, and especially the Supreme Court, distort and
 misunderstand history in interpreting the Constitution.
* Bradford, M.E., Original Intentions: On the Making and
 Ratification of the United States Constitution, 1993, U. Georgia
 Pr. Brief commentary and historical analysis.
* Daniel Sisson, The American Revolution of 1800, 1974, Alfred A.
 Knopf. Preface by Harvey Wheeler. The victory of the Jeffersonians
 over the Federalists settled constitutional interpretation for the
 next 20 years.
* McDonald, Forrest, E Pluribus Unum, 1979, Liberty Fund. History
 and commentary on the formation of the American Union.
* McDonald, Forrest, A Constitutional History of the United States,
 1986. History and commentary on the formation of the American Union.
* McDonald, Forrest, Novus Ordo Seclorum : The Intellectual Origins
 of the Constitution, 1986, Univ Pr of Kansas. Survey of the
 writings and ideas on which the Constitution was founded.
* McDonald, Forrest, We the People : The Economic Origins of the
 Constitution, 1992, Transaction Pub. Economic factors affecting the
 founding of the Constitution.
* Bailyn, Bernard, The Ideological Origins of the American
 Revolution, 1992, Belknap Pr. Survey of the writings and ideas on
 which the Constitution was founded.
* Rosen, Gary, American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of
 Founding, 1999, Univ Pr of Kansas. Examines the thought of Madison
 in detail.
* Banning, Lance, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the
 Founding of the Federal Republic, 1998, Cornell Univ Pr. Analyzes
 Madison's ideas and how they relate to constitutional
 interpretation.
* Banning, Lance, Jeffersonian Persuasion : Evolution of a Party
 Ideology, 1980, Cornell Univ Pr. Traces the development of
 Jeffersonian interpretative doctrine.
* McNamara, Joseph S., Roche, Lissa, eds., Still the Law of the
 Land?, 1987, Hillsdale College Pr. Essays on changing
 interpretations of the Constitution.
* McLean, Edward B., Derailing the Constitution: The Undermining of
 American Federalism, 1995, Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
 Essays on the ways the Constitution is being misinterpreted.
* Arkes, Hadley, The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring a
 Jurisprudence of Natural Rights, 1997, Princeton Univ Pr. Biography
 and analysis of the opinions of perhaps the leading Supreme Court
 Justice to resist the New Deal usurpations.
* Randy E. Barnett, Rights Retained by the People: The History and
 Meaning of the Ninth Amendment. Provides excellent guide to what
 else the Founders intended to include in the rights protected by
 the Constitution.  Vol. 1, 1990, Univ Pub Assoc.  Vol. 2, 1993,
 George Mason Univ Pr.
* Strauss, Leo, Natural Right and History, 1965, Univ of Chicago
 Pr.  Historical and philosophical analysis of natural law theory.
* George, Robert P., ed., Natural Law Theory : Contemporary Essays,
 1995, Clarendon Pr. Commentary on natural law theory.
* Rakove, Jack N., The Beginnings of National Politics : An
 Interpretive History of the Continental Congress, 1982, Johns
 Hopkins Univ Pr. Analysis and documentation concerning
 constitutional interpretation.
* Rakove, Jack N., Interpreting the Constitution : The Debate over
 Original Intent, 1990, Northeastern Univ Pr. Analysis and
 documentation concerning constitutional interpretation.
* B Rakove, Jack N., Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the
 Making of the Constitution, 1997, Vintage Books. Analysis and
 documentation concerning constitutional interpretation.
* Rakove, Jack N., Declaring Rights : A Brief History With
 Documents, 1997, Bedford Books. Analysis and documentation
 concerning constitutional interpretation.
* Michael Kammen, The Origins of the American Constitution : A
 Documentary History, 1986, Penguin USA. Key selections from
 constitutional plans, private correspondence of the Founders, and
 Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers.
* Alan Ehrenhalt , The United States of Ambition: Politicians,
 Power, and the Pursuit of Office, 1992, Times Books. Argues that
 candidates for public office are increasingly self-nominated,
 full-time professional politicians, who have the ambition, time,
 skills, and other resources to win and retain elective office, but
 frequently lack other qualities that are needed in our legislative
 and executive institutions in order for them to function
 effectively as formulators of coherent public policies.
* Johannes Althusius, Frederick Smith Carney, (ed. & tr.),
 Politica, 1995, Liberty Fund. Originally published in Latin in
 1603, and revised in 1614, it first presented a comprehensive
 theory of federal republicanism based on a covenantal model of
 human society.
* John C. Calhoun, Ross M. Lence, (ed.), Union and Liberty : The
 Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun, 1992, Liberty Fund.
 Includes "A Disquisition on Government" and "A Discourse on the
 Constitution and Government of the United States". Developed the
 doctrines of concurrent majority, interposition, nullification, and
 state secession, to correct what he perceived as a defect in the
 design of the Constitution that permits a persistent majority to
 dominate all three branches of government and legislate against the
 interests of a minority to the point where they would consider
 their rights violated.
* Hobbes, Thomas, Man and Citizen : De Homine and De Cive, 1991,
 Hackett Pub Co. Expositions of Hobbes' moral and political
 philosophy, better in many ways than Leviathan.
* Beccaria, Cesare, On Crimes and Punishments, 1992, Branden Pub
 Co.  Essay on criminal law and penal reform.
* Bentham, Jeremy, The Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1988,
 Prometheus Books. Develops doctrine of utilitarianism and applies
 it to government.
* Spinoza, Benedict de (Baruch), Theologico-Political Treatise :
 Political Treatise, 1951, Dover Pubns. Lays political theory on
 basis of morality and natural law.
* Pufendorf, Samuel, On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to
 Natural Law, 1991, Cambridge Univ Pr.
* Vattel, Emmerich de, Law of Nations, 1975, AMS Pr.
* Lolme, Jean Louis de, The Rise and Progress of the Constitution
 of England, 1979, Ayer Co Pub.
* Axelrod, Robert, The Complexity of Cooperation : Agent-Based
 Models of Competition and Collaboration, 1997, Princeton Univ Pr.
* Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Frederick Watkins (ed.) Political
 Writings, 1986, Univ of Wisconsin Pr. Contains the Social Contract,
 Considerations on the Government of Poland, and Constitutional
 Project for Corsica.
* Lehman, Godfrey D., We the Jury : The Impact of Jurors on Our
 Basic Freedoms : Great Jury Trials of History, 1997, Prometheus.
 Landmark cases in which the jury played the starring role.
* Lehman, Godfrey D., The Ordeal of Edward Bushell, 1988, Lexicon.
 A fictionalized rendition of Bushell's Case, in which Edward
 Bushell, by holding out against intense pressure to convict William
 Penn on a charge of preaching in a way not authorized by the Church
 of England, established both the power and role of the jury and the
 right of free exercise of religion. Available from America's Legal
 Bookstore, 725 J St, Sacramento, CA 95814, 916/441-0410.
* Heinlein, Robert A., Take Back Your Government! : A Practical
 Handbook for the Private Citizen Who Wants Democracy to Work, 1992,
 Baen Books. The master of science fiction also wrote a handbook for
 political activists.

History and Biography
---------------------
* Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx : The Character of Thomas
 Jefferson, 1997, Knopf. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for
 non-fiction.  Excellent examination of Thomas Jefferson as a man
 and political philosopher, and why he commands such an influence
 over political discourse in the United States after 200 years.
* Thomas P. Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion : Frontier Epilogue to
 the American Revolution, 1988, Oxford Univ Press. History and
 significance of a tax rebellion in Western Pennsylvania in 1794
 that was crushed by federal troops under the orders of George
 Washington.
* David P. Szatmary, Shay's Rebellion : The Making of an Agrarian
 Insurrection, 1984, Univ of Massachusetts Pr. History and
 significance of the debtor rebellion in Western Massachusetts from
 August 1786 to February 1787 that frightened American leaders into
 planning for a stronger central government and calling the
 Constitutional Convention.
* Henry S. Commager, Milton Cantor (Eds.), Documents of American
 History, 1988, Prentice Hall. Fairly complete collection. Good
 resource for the historian.  Vol. 1, To 1898 Vol. 2, Since 1898
* Rosenfeld, Richard, American Aurora : A Democratic-Republican
 Returns, 1997, St Martins Pr. Tells the story of the struggle
 between the Hamiltonian federalists and the Jeffersonian democrats
 in the first years of the United States, from the viewpoint of the
 grandson of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Bache, the publisher of the
 Philadelphia Aurora, the newspaper that provoked the passage of the
 Sedition Act, under which its publisher was prosecuted, and which
 is credited with the election of Jefferson in 1800.
* McDonald, Forrest, The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson, 1987, Univ
 Pr of Kansas. History of the Jefferson presidency.

Cautionary Fiction
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* Ross, John, Unintended Consequences, 1996, Accurate Pr. Traces
 the progress from restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms
 to a police state.
* Preston, Richard, The Cobra Event, 1997, Random House. This is
 the novel that scared President Bill Clinton. Provides a realistic
 portrayal of a biological terrorist attack on the United States.

Recovery and Personal Development
---------------------------------
* Huffer, Karin, Overcoming the Devastation of Legal Abuse
 Syndrome, 1995, Fulkort Pr. For victims of legal abuse and the
 social isolation such victims often experience.
* Doman, Glenn and Janet, How to Teach Your Baby to Read, 1994,
 Avery Pub Group. Instructions on how to teach infants before age
 two.
* Doman, Glenn and Janet, How to Teach Your Baby Math, 1993, Avery
 Pub Group. Instructions on how to teach infants before age two.
* Doman, Glenn and Janet, How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence,
 1994, Avery Pub Group. Instructions on how to teach infants before
 age two.
* Doman, Glenn and Janet, Susan Aisen, How to Give Your Baby
 Encyclopedic Knowledge, 1994, Avery Pub Group. Instructions on how
 to teach infants before age two.

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Prime Reading
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Readings on Corruption, Conspiracy, and Constitutional Principles
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Reading list 2
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