10 Books Every Conservative Must Read..., Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D.
10 Books Every Conservative Must Read..., Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D.
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10 Books Every Conservative Must Read
Plus Four Not to Miss and One Imposter

Author: Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D.

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 10 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/14/2010

Synopsis

Following up his 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, author Benjamin Wiker brings us another must read for conservatives and booklovers everywhere.Offering a CliffsNotes guide to some of the most important literary works of our time, Benjamin Wiker, author of 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, turns his discerning eye from the great texts that have done damage to Western civilization to the great texts that could help rebuild it. This book features a range of works, from classics such as Democracy in America and The Federalist Papers to more popular classics like Sense and Sensibility and The Tempest. Through these works, Wiker reveals some of the most important lessons for our time, as well as the true meaning of conservatism. Written with an educational purpose and a witty tone, this is a must read for conservatives, republicans, and booklovers everywhere.

About Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D.

Benjamin Wiker received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and has taught at Marquette University, St. Mary's University, Thomas Aquinas College, and Franciscan University. He now writes full-time as a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and is also a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute. He has published several books, including A Meaningful World: How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature, coauthored with Jonathan Witt, and Answering the New Atheism: Dismantling Dawkins' Case Against God, coauthored with Scott Hahn. He lives in rural Ohio with his wife and seven children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stan

Written by a very bright Catholic academic so it is more about philosophic conservatism than about nuts and bolts political conservatism. The ten are: The Politics by Aristotle Orthodoxy by Chesterton The New Science of Politics by Voegelin The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis Reflections on the Revolution in......more

Goodreads review by Fr. Ryan

This is a must-read for every serious thinker. The title is bad. Really bad. I hate the title! Conservatism is a misnomer in a lot of ways. Wiker's text and it's sister Ten Books That Screwed Up the World: And Five Others That Didn't Help are much like Chesterton's Heretics and Orthodoxy. This text......more

Goodreads review by Kris

Very much about philosophical conservatism rather than specific modern-day political details. I greatly enjoyed that aspect of it, and I wish that many more people on both sides could read this. Sometimes I got a bit lost, and information passed by in a blur, so I know I missed some things. I much pr......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin

This was far better than I expected. Far from being just a list and short summary of such books that meet the title, or even a more in-depth exploration into them (both of which are still covered here), Wiker also provides a very clear-minded, balanced, honest and yet personable set of literary essa......more

Goodreads review by Erneilson

My late father was a conservative and during my growing up years we had long discussions about what he saw as the problems with our society, which he attributed largely to the liberalism starting with the late Depression era government beginning of FDR, continuing into my generation. Having read thi......more

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