This Book Listing is in order of its first use in the series. To learn more about each book, click on the red title.
1. How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps by Ben Shapiro, 2020. Ben Shapiro is editor in chief of the Daily Wire and host of The Ben Shapiro Show, the top conservative podcast in the nation. A New York Times bestselling author, Shapiro is a graduate of Harvard Law School and an Orthodox Jew. His work has been profiled in nearly every major American publication, and he has been featured as the speaker at many conservative events on campuses nationwide, several of those appearances targeted by progressive and “antifa” activists. Capstone Report
2. Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, 2017. Richard Delgado is John J. Sparkman Chair of Law at the University of Alabama and one of the founders of critical race theory. Jean Stefancic is Professor and Clement Research Affiliate at the University of Alabama School of Law. They have collaborated on five previous books, including The Latino/a Condition, The Derrick Bell Reader, How Lawyers Lost Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds, Understanding Words that Wound, and No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America’s Social Agenda.
3. Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, 2020. Helen Pluckrose is a liberal political and cultural writer and speaker. She is the editor of Areo Magazine and the author of many popular essays on postmodernism, critical theory, liberalism, secularism and feminism. Today, an exile from the humanities, she researched late medieval and early modern religious writing by and for women. She lives in England. James Lindsay is a mathematician with a background in physics and founder of New Discourses. His books include Everybody is Wrong about God and How to Have Impossible Conversations and his essays have appeared in numerous outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Time. He lives in Tennessee.
4. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray, 2019. Douglas Murray is an author and journalist based in Britain. His latest book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam was published in May 2017. It spent almost 20 weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and was a #1 bestseller in non-fiction. It has subsequently been published in more than 20 languages worldwide and has been read and cited by politicians around the world. The Evening Standard describes it as, “By far the most compelling political book of the year. Murray has been a contributor to the Spectator since 2000 and has been Associate Editor at the magazine since 2012. He has also written regularly for numerous other outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, Evening Standard and the New Criterion. He is a regular contributor to National Review and has been a columnist for Standpoint magazine since its founding.
5. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, 1980. Howard Zinn (1922 – 2010) was a historian, playwright, and social activist. In addition to A People’s History of the United States, which has sold more than two million copies, he is the author of many books, including the, Declarations. He is credited as being the most popular revisionist historian of America.
7. The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, 2018. Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for The New York Times Magazine and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. She also has written extensively about school resegregation across the country and chronicled the decades-long failure of the federal government to enforce the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act. In 1916 she co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization dedicated to increasing the ranks of investigate reporters of color.
8. The 1619 Project Critique by Phillip W. Magness,2020. Phillip W. Magness is an economic historian specializing in the 19th century United States. He is the author of numerous works on the political and economic dimensions of slavery, the history of taxation, and the history of economic thought.
10. Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson, 2020. Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns. This, her debut work, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named to Times list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. Wilkerson has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and university across the U.S. and in Europe and Asia. Caste is on Oprah’s Book Club for 2020 and has 20,560 reviews on Amazon with a 5 star rating.
11. Castes In India by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkae, 1916. B. R. Ambedkar (1891 – 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, politician, and social reformer, who inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement and campaigned against social discrimination towards the untouchables (Dalits). He was independent India’s first Minister of Law and Justice and considered the chief architect of the Constitution of India.
12. 1619 Jamestown by James Horn, 2018. James Horn is the president of Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. He is author and editor of five books on colonial American history, including A Land as God Made It; The Birth of America and A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Conly of Roanoke.
13. The Life of Fredrick Douglas by Fredrick Douglas, 1845. Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor, and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Fredrick Douglass (1818- 1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet though sheer force of character his was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his people.
14. Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, 1646. William Bradford (1590 – 1657) was an English Puritan separatist. Originally from northern England he moved to Holland in order to escape the persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years between 1621 and 1657. His journal Of Plymouth Plantation covered the years from 1620 to 1646.
15. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, 1901. Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave in 1856 in Virginia. After the Emancipation Proclamation, Booker’s family moved to West Virginia, where he took a job in the mines, but attended school whenever possible. At age 16 he enrolled in the Hampton Institute, where he later became an instructor. In 1881, he left Hampton and founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He soon became recognized as the nation’s foremost black educator, as one of the pioneers of black education in the U.S. and as one of the most outspoken critics of racism. In 1896, he became the first African America to receive an honorary PhD. From Harvard University. Up From Slavery his autobiography was published in 1901. Washington died in 1915.
16. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903. This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W.E.B. Du Bois (1868 – 1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated the early 20th century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently to all mankind. He also charges that the strategy of accommodation to white supremacy advanced by Booker T. Washington, then the most influential black leader in America, would only serve to perpetuate black oppression. Publication of The Souls of Black Folk was a dramatic event that helped to polarize black leaders into two groups: the more conservative followers of Washington and the more radical supporters of aggressive protest. Its influence cannot be overstated. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, author, writer, and editor. Born in Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing his graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP) in 1909.
17. Blackout by Candace Owens, 2020. Candace Owens is a political commentator and host of the Candace Owens Show. She is founder of the national #Blexit movement and tours the country delivering speeches to capacity crowds. She lives in Washington, D.C.
18. The Death of Right and Wrong by Tammy Bruce, 2003. Tammy Bruce, America’s favorite, openly gay, pro-choice, pro-death penalty, gun-owning feminist, has appeared on Hannity & Colmes, The O’Reilly Factor, Larry King Live, Fox News, CNN News, The Sean Hannity Show, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, The Larry Elder Show, The Dennis Prager Radio Show, KGO Radio, and numerous other television and radio programs. She has been written about in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Advocate, and U.S. News and World Report, among other publications. She is a gay activist and former president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization of Woman.
19. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in our Society by Dr. Debra Soh, 2020. Dr. Debra Soh is a neuroscientist who specialized in gender, sex, and sexual orientation. She received her doctorate from York University in Toronto and worked as an academic researcher for eleven years. Her writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail (Toronto), Harper’s Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, Playboy, Quillette, and many other publications. Her research has been published in academic journals including the Archives of Sexual Behavior and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. As a journalist, Soh writes about the science and politics of human sexuality and gender, free speech, and censorship in academia.
20. Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason by Dave Rubin, 2020. Dave Rubin is the creator and host of The Rubin Report, the most watched talk show about free speech and big ideas on YouTube. A former progressive turned classical liberal, he speaks to millions all other the world, including touring with Dr. Jordan Peterson, and performs stand-up comedy in cities around the United States. He lives in Lost Angeles with his husband David. This is his first book.
22. Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier, 2020. Abigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship, a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
23. The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad, 2020. Gad Saad, PhD., one of the best-known public intellectuals fighting the tyranny of political correctness, is a professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, where he held the Research Chair in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences and Darwinian Consumption from 2008 to 2018. A Pioneer in the application of evolutionary psychology to consumer behavior, he is the authors of The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption, The Consuming Instinct, and numerous scientific papers and the editor of the book Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences.
24. Cancer Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process by Alan Dershowitz, 2020. Alan Dershowitz is one of the most celebrated lawyers in the world. He was the youngest full professor in Harvard Law School history, where he is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus. The author of numerous bestselling books, from Chutzpah to Guilt by Accusation to The Case Against Impeaching Trump to The Best Defense to Reversal of Fortune (which was made into an Academy Award winning film) to Defending Israel. Dershowitz has advised president and prime ministers and has represented many prominent men and women, half of them pro bono.
25. The Breakdown of Higher Education by John M. Ellis, 2020. John M. Ellis is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German Literature at the University of California, San Cruz. He taught at universities in England, Wales and Canada before jointing UCSC in 1966, serving a dean of the Graduate Division in 1977-86. He is the author of ten books, including Literature Lost (Yale), awarded the Peter Shaw Memorial Award by the National Association of Scholars. He founded the Association of Literary Scholars and critics in 1993 and served as president of the California Association of Scholars in 2007 – 13 and chairman of its board since then. His articles on education reform have appeared in prominent national publications.
26. Why You Should Be a Socialist by Nathan J. Robinson, 2019. Nathan J. Robinson is a leading voice of the millennial left politics. He is the editor of Current Affairs, a print magazine of political and cultural analysis, and a political columnist at The Guardian. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Nation, and elsewhere. A graduate of Yale Law School, he is a PhD student in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University, where his work focuses on contemporary left social movements. He is 30 years old.
27. The Woke Supremacy by Evan Sayet, 2020. Evan Sayet is a writer and political commentator. His popular talk to the Heritage Foundation on “How the Modern Liberal Thinks” has received over 600,000 views on YouTube and is the basis for his new book. Evan has written and/or produced in virtually every medium there is. Starting out as a standup comic he was quickly noticed by David Letterman and offered a spot on a special episode featuring young talent. Segueing into writing, he was an integral part of the team that made “The Arsenio Hall Show” the first late night program in 30 years to give “The Tonight Show” a run for its money and then the very first Creative Consultant on the highly respected “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.” After that Evan wrote and produced the highest rated special in Discovery’s: The Learning Channel’s history.
28. Countdown to Socialism by Deven Nunes, 2020. Devin Nunes is a Member of Congress representing California’s 22nd District, located in the San Joaquin Valley. As Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, he led the Republican investigation that helped debunk the Russia collusion conspiracy theory and reveal how U.S. intelligence agencies were abused to concoct and spread the collusion hoax. Afterward, as the Committee’s Ranking Member, he played a leading role in the fight in the House of Representatives against the Democrat’s impeachment of President Trump.
29. Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky, 1971. Saul Alinsky was born in Chicago in 1909 and educated first in the streets of that city and then in its university. Graduate work at the University of Chicago in criminology introduced him to the Capone gang, and later to Joliet State Prison, where he studied prison life. He founded what is known today as the Alinsky ideology and Alinsky concepts of mass organization for power. His work in organizing the poor to fight for their rights as citizens has been internationally recognized. In the late 1930s he organized the Back of the Yards area in Chicago (Upton Sinclair’s Jungle). Subsequently, through the Industrial Areas Foundation which he began in 1940, Mr. Alinsky and his staff have helped to organize communities not only in Chicago, but throughout the country from the black ghetto of Rochester, New York, to the Mexican American barrios of California. Today Mr. Alinsky’s organizers attention has turned to the middle class, and he and his associates have a Training Institute for organizers. Mr. Alinsky’s early organizing efforts resulted in his being arrested and jailed from time to time. He died in 1972. Per the Chicago Sun-Times “Alinsky’s techniques and teachings influenced generations of community and labor organizers, including the church-based group hiring a young Barack Obama to work on Chicago’s South Side in the 1980s …. Alinsky impressed a young Hillary Clinton, who was growing up in Park Ridge at the time Alinsky was the director of the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago.” She proceeded to write her dissertation on Alinsky while attending Wellesley College.
30. Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray, 2017. Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe and was one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street. His is the author of Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street and co-editor of Anarchist Education and the Modern School; A Franciso Ferrer Reader, published Spring 2018. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, Critical Quarterly, ROAR Magazine, and numerous edited volumes. He is currently a lecturer at Dartmouth College.
32. Black Lives Matter: Marxist Hate Dressed Up as Racial Justice by John Perazzo, 2020. John Perazzo is the editor of www.discover thenetworks.org and the author of several books including The Myths that Divide Us, Betrayal: The Destruction of America’s Cities, The New Shame of the Cities, and co-authored From Shadow Party to Shadow Government, Government versus The People, and Occupy Wall Street with David Horowitz
33. American Marxism by Mark R. Levin. Mark Levin is a nationally syndicated talk-radio host, host of Levin TV, chairman of Landmark Legal Foundation, and host of the Fox News show Life, Liberty & Levin, is the author of six consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers: Liberty & Tyranny, Ameritopia, The Liberty Amendments, Plunder and Deceit, Rediscovering Americanism, and Unfreedom of the Press. Liberty and Tyranny spent three months at #1 and sold more than 1.5 million copies. His books Men in Black and Rescuing Sprite were also New York Times bestsellers. Levin is an inductee into the National Radio Hall of Fame, and was a top adviser to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet. He holds a BA from Temple University and a JD from Temple University Law School. This book American Marxism has already sold 1,000,000 copies after ten weeks on the market. Simon & Schuster Corporate Communication
34. Beyond Biden (2021) by Newt Gingrich . Newt Gingrich is a former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and 2012 presidential candidate. He is chairman of Gingrich 360, a multimedia production and consulting company based in Arlington, Virginia. He is also a Fox News contributor and author of 41 books, including New York Times bestsellers Understanding Trump, Trump’s America, Trump vs. China, and Trump and the American Future. He lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife, Callista L. Gingrich, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.
35. Red, White and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionist and Race Hustlers (2021) edited by Robert L. Woodson. Robert “Bob” Woodson in a community activist who has devoted his career to helping low-income people transcend their impoverished conditions. Woodson has used his own rise from poverty to assist him as the founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE). After working for the National Urban League, Woodson become a research fellow with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he learned effective techniques for self-empowerment. Woodson left AEI in 1981 to create NCNE, a grassroots research and demonstration program emphasizing the importance of empowerment and self-management as effective approaches for ending poverty. Woodson received a prestigious “Genius Grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 1990. He sits on the boards of the American Association of Enterprise Zones, the Commission on National and Community Service, and the Commonwealth Foundation. Woodson has also written extensively on the issue of poverty and empowerment including Lessons of These and The Triumphs of Joseph; How Today’s Community Healers are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods.
36. Woke, Inc. Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam (2022) by Vivek Ramaswamy. Vivek Ramaswamy is an entrepreneur who has founded multiple successful enterprises. A first-generation American, he is the founder and Executive Chairman of Roivant Sciences, a new type of biopharmaceutical company focused on the application of technology to drug development. He founded Roivant in 2014 and led the largest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016, eventually culminating in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDA-approved products. Mr. Ramaswamy serves on the board of directors of the Philanthropy Roundtable and the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity.
37. Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch (2022) by David Mamet. David Mamet is America’s foremost playwright. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his 1984 play Glengarry Glen Ross. His other plays include American Buffalo, Oleanna, Speed of the Plow, Race, The Cryptogram, The Untouchables, and November. His screenplays for The Verdict and Wag the Dog were nominated for the Academy Award.
38. The War on the West (2022) by Douglas Murray. Douglas Murray is an associate editor of The Spectator. His latest publication, The Madness of Crowds, was a best seller and a “book of the year” for The Times and Sunday Times. His previous book, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam was published in May 2017. It spent almost twenty weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and was a number one best seller in nonfiction. NOTE: Mr. Murray is also listed in the fourth entry above.