Bill's
Bookshelf
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-Bill Walton
Rules for Radicals
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky’s impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.”
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The Stakes – America at the Point of No Return
The next election is the most important one America has faced in more than a century.
That’s not campaign hype.
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Warriors and Worriers
The question of exactly what sex differences exist and whether they have a biological foundation has been one of our culture’s favorite enduring discussions. It should. After a baby is born, a parent’s first concern is for its physical health.
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The Websters’ Dictionary
The Websters’ Dictionary shows you how the big success stories in Web advocacy — groups like MoveOn.org and Heritage.org, starting from very little achieved such massive success. And how you can too. This book lays it out from the basic to the sophisticated.
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The Noblest Triumph
In The Noblest Triumph, Tom Bethell looks at the history of property rights and shows that the key role played by the institution of private property has been misunderstood by Western elites for more than a century.
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Rebuilding America: A Prescription For Creating Strong Families
Rebuilding America argues for a phase-out of the welfare state by applying new techniques of public finance, not imposing additional taxes.
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Globalization
The contemporary era of globalization demonstrates that the local and global aspects of business and government are increasingly intertwined. This volume defines and makes sense of the workings of the global economy―and how it influences businesses and individuals.
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The Myth of the Rational Voter
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters.
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A Republic Under Assault
In this explosive new book, New York Times bestselling author and president of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton explains how the Radical Left and the Deep State are trying to destroy the Trump presidency.
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Clean House
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Corruption Chronicles comes a devastating expose of the scandals of Obama’s second term. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton reveals what the largest watchdog agency in America has uncovered in its battles against Obama secrecy.
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Free to Choose – A Personal Statement
The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls.
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China RX
Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don’t know it–and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing.
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Wealth and Poverty
In this influential classic, Gilder explains and makes the case for supply-side economics, proves the moral superiority of free-market capitalism, and shows why supply-side economics are more effective at decreasing poverty than government-regulated markets.
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Knowledge and Power
Ronald Reagan’s most-quoted living author—George Gilder—is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom, just when our economy desperately needs a new direction.
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The Bard and the Bible
The Bard and the Bible (A Shakespeare Devotional) pairs 365 short passages from each of the two greatest works of English literature ever created, which were compiled in the same period and in the same city.
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Intellectuals
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies… are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Financial crises and speculative excess can be traced back to the very beginning of trade and commerce. Since its introduction in 1978, this book has charted and followed this volatile world of financial markets.
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Mere Christianity
In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together.
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Cynical Theories
Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society?
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Buffett: The Making of An American Capitalist
Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffet amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the twentieth century.
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Human Accomplishment
At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.
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Coming Apart
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.
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Money, Greed, and God
In Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute Jay W. Richards defends capitalism within the context of the Christian faith.
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The Price of Panic
The human cost of the emergency response to COVID-19 has far outweighed the benefits. That’s the sobering verdict of a trio of scholars—a biologist, a statistician, and a philosopher— in this comprehensive assessment of the worst panic-induced disaster in history.
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Dare to Prepare: How to Win Before you Begin
Over the course of a forty-year career in the worlds of law, sports, business, and politics, Ron Shapiro has worked with and advised an incredible variety of people.
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Coolidge
Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership.
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The Alchemy of Finance
Soros reveals the investment strategies that have made him the most powerful and profitable investor in the world today.
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
This is not a comforting book — it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both “merit” and historical redress as principles for guiding public policy.
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Knowledge and Decisions
This much revised and reorganized edition of Intellectuals and Society is more than half again larger than the first edition. Four new chapters have been added on intellectuals and race, including a chapter on race and intelligence.
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Knowledge and Decisions
Sowell, one of America’s most celebrated public intellectuals, describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society.
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When Politicians Panicked
The global economy was booming as 2020 dawned, but within a few short months wreckage, death, and desperation borne of economic contraction were the new normal. What happened?
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