LW America First Republican Club
By Brian Harmon
LW Contributor
The LW American First Republican Club’s book of the month is “10 Books Every Conservative Must Read” by Benjamin Wiker.
The book gives a 10 to 20 page summary of each of the 10 books mentioned, and four books that are less political and more cultural.
The first chapter is called, “Why These Books, and Not...” The author argues that just about every conservative will have a favorite book that is not on the list, so he explains the criteria he used to pick the ones he chose.
The 10 featured books are listed as follows:
• “Politics,” by Aristotle
• Orthodoxy,” by GK Chesterton
• “The New Science of Politics,” by Eric Voegelin
• “The Abolition of Man,” by C.S. Lewis;
• “Reflections on the Revolution in France,” by Edmund Burke
• “Democracy in America” by Alexis De Tocqueville
• “The Federalist Papers,” by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
• The Anti-Federalist Papers
• “The Servile State,” by Hilaire Belloc
• “The Road to Serfdom,” by Friedrich Von Hayek The author adds five books that are not so much political, but rather culturally conservative: • “The Tempest,” by William Shakespeare
• “Sense and Sensibility,” by Jane Austen • “The Lord of the Rings,” by
J.R.R. Tolkien
• “The Jerusalem Bible” “The Politics,” by Aristotle, was written roughly 2,000 years before the others. It is surprisingly applicable to many of today’s political issues. The LW Republican Club believes in legal immigration and secure borders, peace through strength, lower taxes,cutting government spending, free enterprise capitalism, family values, parental control of education, public safety through well-funded law-enforcement, and an America-first foreign policy.
The America First Republican Club’s onthly meetings are held in Clubhouse 3, Room 2, on the third Wednesday of each month at 5 p.m. for socializing and 5:30 for the speaker.
