Because of the relative paucity of information, our composers' political chart is largely for amusement. People like Schubert, Bach, Debussy and Donizetti, who don't seem to have left any hints of their politics, have been left out altogether.
This chart was partially inspired by an interesting article on the subject that originally appeared in BBC Music Magazine, April 1997.
Jonathan Chait The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics Stinging criticism of supply side economics and those who put it into practice.
Norton Garfinkle The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy Criticises America's current system as overly favoring the wealthy, and offers a new economic vision to correct the imbalance.
Michael Lind The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life Critique of U.S. policy since the Cold War with a post Iraq War twist.
Naomi Klein The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Scathing review of the damages of globalised capitalism when used as a method for recovery after a disaster.
Chris Hedges American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America A blistering attack on the Christian Right.
Dan Perjovschi Mad Cow, Bird Flu, Global Village: The Art of Dan Perjovschi Social critique of major global issues through cartoons.
Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello The New Spirit of Capitalism A study of the reorganization of capitalism since the 1960s.
Clayborne Carson The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. A posthumous autobiography constructed out of Dr. King's writings, sermons, and speeches.
Upton Sinclair Jungle Classic novella on the plight of the factory worker and excesses of American Capitalism at the turn on the 20th century.
Thom Hartmann Unequal Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights Argues that expanding US corporate power is accompanied by a corresponding loss of people power, and mostly because of a legal blunder in 1886.
Eric Alterman and Mark Green THE BOOK ON BUSH: How George W. (Mis)leads America Provocative critique of the US presidency
Shadia B.Drury Leo Strauss And The American Right The author identifies the late professor of philosophy at the University Chicago as the shadowy force behind the conservative revolution.
Jack Huberman THE BUSH-HATER'S HANDBOOK:A guide to the most appalling presidency of the past 100 years Crisply written ammunition for the President's most committed opponents
Jeff Walker The Ayn Rand Cult Deeply critical analysis of the Objectivist movement, Rand's leadership role, and the politics of her tightly knit inner circle.
Benjamin Barber Jihad vs McWorld A political scientist argues that intolerant tribalism and international consumerism is a dangerous brew.
Howard Zinn A Peoples History of the United States A professor emeritus of political science at Boston University lets blacks, native Americans, women and labourers tell their own story.
Thomas Frank One Market Under God An attack on extreme capitalism and market worshippers.
George Monbiot A leading UK columnist and environmental thinker - and scourge of the corporatists
The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order "Tell people something they know already and they will thank you. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it."
Captive State Anticapitalism
Emma Goldman Anarchism and other Essays Compelling work by the ground-breaking libertarian socialist and feminist.
Al Franken Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them : A Fair and Balanced look at the Far Right. Hypertensive conservatives might want to take some medication before reading this one.
Ivan Illich Deschooling Society Seminal work by this radical social critic.
Nils Christie Crime Control as Industry An eye-opening challenge to crime and punishment hardliners.
Pierre Bourdieu On Television The prominent French sociologist attacks dumbing down and the corporatised information industry
Naomi Tutu (editor) The Words of Desmond Tutu Selections from the Nobel Peace Prize winner's speeches, sermons and writings
William Blum Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower Critics will call this a one-sided book; but it is an invaluable corrective to the establishment portrait of America as the world's greatest force for peace.
Michael Moore Stupid White Men Caustic and funny attack on corporate America and political hypocrisy by the Tom Paine of our age
George Orwell 1984 His chilling and prophetic masterpiece envisages a world where political leaders have manipulated the multitudes into uncritical acceptance of their power and party slogans War is Peace Ignorance is Strength Freedom is Slavery
Naomi Klein No Logo A devastating critique of globalisation, and arguments for change
Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation Eye-opening investigation into the inner workings of unregulated or marginally regulated business and industry.
Thomas Paine This woefully neglected icon of free thought was not only a central figure in the American and French revolutions, but also came impressively close to kick-starting one in England. A free trader in the days when free trade meant minimising the risk of war and undermining the exploitation of the nation state, Paine also advocated social safety nets in anticipation of the welfare state. His danger to churches and governments was his ability to write in plain accessible language - and to ridicule pomp and power. The Rights of Man Literally the first serious formulation of human rights as a political concept The Age of Reason An often hilarious and thoroughly readable rebuff of church dogma and Old Testament morality
Noam Chomsky Love him or loathe him, Chomsky is one of today's great intellectuals; a champion of the libertarian left who writes in an accessible way and bombards the reader with stimulating new facts and arguments Rogue States: The role of force in World Affairs HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL: America's Quest for Global Dominance The Chomsky Trilogy Secrets, Lies and Democracy The Prosperous Few and the Restless many What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Ralph Nader US corporate watchdog who influenced the manufacture of safer cars and whose candidacy in the election of 2000 may have cost the Democrats the presidency. For Nader, it was only a choice between "Tweedledum and Tweedledumber" anyway. Cutting Corporate Welfare Nader attacks what, for some right-wingers, is the acceptable aspect of welfare. The Ralph Nader Reader A diverse and provocative read
Greg Palast The Best Democracy Money can Buy This investigative work by a former student of Milton Friedman unearths uncomfortable information for those who hold that what's good for the corporations is inevitably good for us all.
Peter Kropotkin Co-operation rather than competition is the key to survival according to this naturalist's fascinating take on Darwinism. A former Russian prince who abandoned privilege to side with the bolsheviks, he became equally critical of 'The new Tsars' and championed the cause of anarchism. Mutual Aid : A Factor of Evolution
Tariq Ali Student radical turned journalist and film maker Masters of the Universe
J. K. Galbraith His Keynesian economic approach looks more radical in these days of neo-liberal orthodoxy The Affluent Society
Ron Paul Pillars of Prosperity A collection of Paul's speeches and writings over the last 30 years ,with the emphasis on economics.
Robert Nozick Anarchy, State and Utopia One of the seminal works on right wing libertarianism.
Benjamin R.Tucker Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One Important work from this Nineteenth century libertarian who opposed all forms of communism.
Milton Friedman "The only social responsibility of a corporation is to deliver a proft to its shareholders" Nobel Economics prizewinner - but widely read among non-academics Capitalism and Freedom Bright Promises, Dismal Performance : An Economist's Protest
Lanny Ebenstein Milton Friedman: A Biography A worthy homage to Friedman's ideas. --The Financial Times
Richard J. Maybury Whatever Happened to Justice ? Examines faults in America’s legal and economic system and offers solutions on how to remedy them.
Jonah Goldberg Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning A thought-provoking thesis that asserts liberalism’s connections with fascism in both the past and present.
Jagdish Bhagwati In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword Argues that properly governed globalisation can be a force for social good in the world.
Joseph Stiglitz Globalisation and its Discontents Nobel prize winner and former Chief Economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz had a unique insider's view into globalisation. Now he speaks out against it, while arguing that it can still be a force for good - with radical changes to the balance of power.
Thomas L. Friedman The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century Well written unfettered enthusiasm for unfettered market forces; especially of interest to IT professionals.
Ludwig Von Mises The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality Von Mises, who has championed the free market probably more deeply than any other thinker, argues that people whose ambitions haven't been fulfilled blame the System.
Frederic Bastiat The Law Much admired 19th Century French statesman and essayist advocates free trade and warns of the dangers of socialism.
Richard J. Maybury The Money Mystery Widely praised work by one of America's most respected business analysts.
Henry Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson Former Newsweek columnist and favourite of the US Libertarian Party sets out the case for unfettered market forces as the means of achieving social and economic progress.
Murray Rothbard Irrepressible Rothbard Collection of passionately argued essays by U.S. free market icon On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers. The Ethics of Liberty Radical right philosophy from the noted neo-liberal economist.
P J O'Rourke Eat The Rich I wanted to know why some parts of the Earth prosper and others suck, writes P.J. O'Rourke...
Ayn Rand ...whose works of non-fiction, and novels like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, voiced her fierce hatred of social safety nets and the governments that provide them. Capitalism - the Unknown Ideal The Virtue of Selfishness For Ayn Rand , 'selfishness' means concern for one's own interests; for dictionaries, it's the excessive or exclusive regard for self, and a disregard for others. The Fountainhead Pro-business ideology expressed through her most popular work of fiction.
Atlas Shrugged The author argues that civilisation's future depends on comparatively few creative minds.
F. A. Hayek One of the most influential gurus for libertarians of the right The Road to Serfdom Individualism and Economic Order The Fatal Conceit
Grahame Thompson The Political Economy of the New Right Part of a series on right wing parties and ideology
Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley Analytical interview of the controversial Father of Black Power in the 1960s.
Samir Amin THE LIBERAL VIRUS: Permanent War and the Americanization of the world Scathing and erudite critique by a prominent Marxist who long ago distanced himself from Soviet Marxism, then Maoism
Kim Jong Il KIM JONG II ON THE ART OF OPERA The North Korean leader talks to "creative workers in the field of art and literature"
G. Neil Harding Leninism Introduction to Leninism as Ideology.
Fidel Castro Capitalism in Crisis: Globalization and World Politics Today The Cuban President's take on economic justice and the new global order
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Much quoted and seldom read Essential Works On Imperialism and Imperialists
Chairman Mao Tse Tung "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun" On Guerrilla Warfare Quotations from Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Red Book) Quotations and Sayings of Chairman Mao, a compact overview of Maoist ideology.
Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson (editors) American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia A collection of works ranging from major conservative thinkers to stances on political issues from a conservative point of view.
Francis Elliott, James Hanning Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative Biographical account of the rise of David Cameron and his ascendance to the leadership of the Conservative Party.
Irving Kristol NEO-CONSERVATISM: The autobiography of an idea The godfather of neo-conservatism's collection of articles and essays spanning half a century
Irwin Selzer THE NEOCON READER Diverse anthology of well written essays
David Aikman A MAN OF FAITH:The Spiritual Journey of George W.Bush Former Time correspondent's enthusiastic portrait
Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order Conservatives attack neo-conservatism
Patrick J. Buchanan The Death of the West Argues that dying populations and immigrant invasions imperil civilisation.
William F. Buckley Let Us Talk of Many Things Witty and erudite collection by the patron saint of US conservatism.
Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince A landmark 16th century treatise on Realpolitik, concerned with retaining power rather than pursuing ideals
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Influential 17th century argument for the administration of government to be entrusted to one rather than many
Peter Hitchens The Abolition of Britain Former socialist, journalist Peter Hitchens, argues the case for social and economic conservatism
Margaret Thatcher "There is no such thing as society" The Downing Street Years Statecraft The Path to Power
Todd Domke The Conservative's Dictionary A fascinating trawl through all aspects of conservatism
Iain Dale Dictionary of Conservative Quotations An amusing and stimulating reference work
Alan Clark The late Alan Clark - former Thatcher Government cabinet minister The Tories
Martin Blinkhorn Fascists and Conservatives Another perspective, and sure to spark off some heated discussion
Roger Scruton A leading contemporary British Conservative thinker Conservative Thinkers
John Kekes A Case for Conservatism Thoughtful look at Conservatism past and present
Nicholas Kochan Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning A lively biography of contemporary British Conservatism's most controversial woman
Because of the relative paucity of information, our composers' political chart is largely for amusement. People like Schubert, Bach, Debussy and Donizetti, who don't seem to have left any hints of their politics, have been left out altogether.
ReplyDeleteThis chart was partially inspired by an interesting article on the subject that originally appeared in BBC Music Magazine, April 1997.
The Political Compass
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Libertarian Left
ReplyDeleteJonathan Chait
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics
Stinging criticism of supply side economics and those who put it into practice.
Norton Garfinkle
The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy
Criticises America's current system as overly favoring the wealthy, and offers a new economic vision to correct the imbalance.
Michael Lind
The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life
Critique of U.S. policy since the Cold War with a post Iraq War twist.
Naomi Klein
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Scathing review of the damages of globalised capitalism when used as a method for recovery after a disaster.
Chris Hedges
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
A blistering attack on the Christian Right.
Dan Perjovschi
Mad Cow, Bird Flu, Global Village: The Art of Dan Perjovschi
Social critique of major global issues through cartoons.
Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello
The New Spirit of Capitalism
A study of the reorganization of capitalism since the 1960s.
Clayborne Carson
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A posthumous autobiography constructed out of Dr. King's writings, sermons, and speeches.
Upton Sinclair
Jungle
Classic novella on the plight of the factory worker and excesses of American Capitalism at the turn on the 20th century.
Thom Hartmann
Unequal Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights
Argues that expanding US corporate power is accompanied by a corresponding loss of people power, and mostly because of a legal blunder in 1886.
Eric Alterman and Mark Green
THE BOOK ON BUSH: How George W. (Mis)leads America
Provocative critique of the US presidency
Shadia B.Drury
Leo Strauss And The American Right
The author identifies the late professor of philosophy at the University Chicago as the shadowy force behind the conservative revolution.
Jack Huberman
THE BUSH-HATER'S HANDBOOK:A guide to the most appalling presidency of the past 100 years
Crisply written ammunition for the President's most committed opponents
Jeff Walker
The Ayn Rand Cult
Deeply critical analysis of the Objectivist movement, Rand's leadership role, and the politics of her tightly knit inner circle.
Benjamin Barber
Jihad vs McWorld
A political scientist argues that intolerant tribalism and international consumerism is a dangerous brew.
Howard Zinn
A Peoples History of the United States
A professor emeritus of political science at Boston University lets blacks, native Americans, women and labourers tell their own story.
Thomas Frank
One Market Under God
An attack on extreme capitalism and market worshippers.
George Monbiot
A leading UK columnist and environmental thinker - and scourge of the corporatists
The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order
"Tell people something they know already and they will thank you. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it."
Captive State
Anticapitalism
Emma Goldman
Anarchism and other Essays
Compelling work by the ground-breaking libertarian socialist and feminist.
Al Franken
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them : A Fair and Balanced look at the Far Right.
Hypertensive conservatives might want to take some medication before reading this one.
Ivan Illich
Deschooling Society
Seminal work by this radical social critic.
Nils Christie
Crime Control as Industry
An eye-opening challenge to crime and punishment hardliners.
Pierre Bourdieu
On Television
The prominent French sociologist attacks dumbing down and the corporatised information industry
Naomi Tutu (editor)
The Words of Desmond Tutu
Selections from the Nobel Peace Prize winner's speeches, sermons and writings
Libertarian Left (continued)
ReplyDeleteWilliam Blum
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Critics will call this a one-sided book; but it is an invaluable corrective to the establishment portrait of America as the world's greatest force for peace.
Michael Moore
Stupid White Men
Caustic and funny attack on corporate America and political hypocrisy by the Tom Paine of our age
George Orwell
1984
His chilling and prophetic masterpiece envisages a world where political leaders have manipulated the multitudes into uncritical acceptance of their power and party slogans
War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength
Freedom is Slavery
Naomi Klein
No Logo
A devastating critique of globalisation, and arguments for change
Eric Schlosser
Fast Food Nation
Eye-opening investigation into the inner workings of unregulated or marginally regulated business and industry.
Thomas Paine
This woefully neglected icon of free thought was not only a central figure in the American and French revolutions, but also came impressively close to kick-starting one in England.
A free trader in the days when free trade meant minimising the risk of war and undermining the exploitation of the nation state, Paine also advocated social safety nets in anticipation of the welfare state.
His danger to churches and governments was his ability to write in plain accessible language - and to ridicule pomp and power.
The Rights of Man
Literally the first serious formulation of human rights as a political concept
The Age of Reason
An often hilarious and thoroughly readable rebuff of church dogma and Old Testament morality
Noam Chomsky
Love him or loathe him, Chomsky is one of today's great intellectuals; a champion of the libertarian left who writes in an accessible way and bombards the reader with stimulating new facts and arguments
Rogue States: The role of force in World Affairs HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL: America's Quest for Global Dominance
The Chomsky Trilogy
Secrets, Lies and Democracy
The Prosperous Few and the Restless many
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Ralph Nader
US corporate watchdog who influenced the manufacture of safer cars and whose candidacy in the election of 2000 may have cost the Democrats the presidency. For Nader, it was only a choice between "Tweedledum and Tweedledumber" anyway.
Cutting Corporate Welfare
Nader attacks what, for some right-wingers, is the acceptable aspect of welfare.
The Ralph Nader Reader
A diverse and provocative read
Greg Palast
The Best Democracy Money can Buy
This investigative work by a former student of Milton Friedman unearths uncomfortable information for those who hold that what's good for the corporations is inevitably good for us all.
Peter Kropotkin
Co-operation rather than competition is the key to survival according to this naturalist's fascinating take on Darwinism.
A former Russian prince who abandoned privilege to side with the bolsheviks, he became equally critical of 'The new Tsars' and championed the cause of anarchism.
Mutual Aid : A Factor of Evolution
Tariq Ali
Student radical turned journalist and film maker
Masters of the Universe
J. K. Galbraith
His Keynesian economic approach looks more radical in these days of neo-liberal orthodoxy
The Affluent Society
Libertarian Right
ReplyDeleteRon Paul
Pillars of Prosperity
A collection of Paul's speeches and writings over the last 30 years ,with the emphasis on economics.
Robert Nozick
Anarchy, State and Utopia
One of the seminal works on right wing libertarianism.
Benjamin R.Tucker
Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One
Important work from this Nineteenth century libertarian who opposed all forms of communism.
Milton Friedman
"The only social responsibility of a corporation is to deliver a proft to its shareholders"
Nobel Economics prizewinner - but widely read among non-academics
Capitalism and Freedom
Bright Promises, Dismal Performance : An Economist's Protest
Lanny Ebenstein
Milton Friedman: A Biography
A worthy homage to Friedman's ideas.
--The Financial Times
Richard J. Maybury
Whatever Happened to Justice ?
Examines faults in America’s legal and economic system and offers solutions on how to remedy them.
Jonah Goldberg
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
A thought-provoking thesis that asserts liberalism’s connections with fascism in both the past and present.
Jagdish Bhagwati
In Defense of Globalization: With a New Afterword
Argues that properly governed globalisation can be a force for social good in the world.
Joseph Stiglitz
Globalisation and its Discontents
Nobel prize winner and former Chief Economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz had a unique insider's view into globalisation. Now he speaks out against it, while arguing that it can still be a force for good - with radical changes to the balance of power.
Thomas L. Friedman
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Well written unfettered enthusiasm for unfettered market forces; especially of interest to IT professionals.
Ludwig Von Mises
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
Von Mises, who has championed the free market probably more deeply than any other thinker, argues that people whose ambitions haven't been fulfilled blame the System.
Frederic Bastiat
The Law
Much admired 19th Century French statesman and essayist advocates free trade and warns of the dangers of socialism.
Richard J. Maybury
The Money Mystery
Widely praised work by one of America's most respected business analysts.
Henry Hazlitt
Economics in One Lesson
Former Newsweek columnist and favourite of the US Libertarian Party sets out the case for unfettered market forces as the means of achieving social and economic progress.
Murray Rothbard
Irrepressible Rothbard
Collection of passionately argued essays by U.S. free market icon
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.
The Ethics of Liberty
Radical right philosophy from the noted neo-liberal economist.
P J O'Rourke
Eat The Rich
I wanted to know why some parts of the Earth prosper and others suck, writes P.J. O'Rourke...
Ayn Rand
...whose works of non-fiction, and novels like The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, voiced her fierce hatred of social safety nets and the governments that provide them.
Capitalism - the Unknown Ideal
The Virtue of Selfishness
For Ayn Rand , 'selfishness' means concern for one's own interests;
for dictionaries, it's the excessive or exclusive regard for self, and a disregard for others.
The Fountainhead
Pro-business ideology expressed through her most popular work of fiction.
Atlas Shrugged
The author argues that civilisation's future depends on comparatively few creative minds.
F. A. Hayek
One of the most influential gurus for libertarians of the right
The Road to Serfdom
Individualism and Economic Order
The Fatal Conceit
Grahame Thompson
The Political Economy of the New Right
Part of a series on right wing parties and ideology
Authoritarian Left
ReplyDeleteMalcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex Haley
Analytical interview of the controversial Father of Black Power in the 1960s.
Samir Amin
THE LIBERAL VIRUS: Permanent War and the Americanization of the world
Scathing and erudite critique by a prominent Marxist who long ago distanced himself from Soviet Marxism, then Maoism
Kim Jong Il
KIM JONG II ON THE ART OF OPERA
The North Korean leader talks to "creative workers in the field of art and literature"
G. Neil Harding
Leninism
Introduction to Leninism as Ideology.
Fidel Castro
Capitalism in Crisis: Globalization and World Politics Today
The Cuban President's take on economic justice and the new global order
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Much quoted and seldom read
Essential Works
On Imperialism and Imperialists
Chairman Mao Tse Tung
"Political power comes from the barrel of a gun"
On Guerrilla Warfare
Quotations from Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Red Book)
Quotations and Sayings of Chairman Mao, a compact overview of Maoist ideology.
Authoritarian Right
ReplyDeleteBruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson (editors)
American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia
A collection of works ranging from major conservative thinkers to stances on political issues from a conservative point of view.
Francis Elliott, James Hanning
Cameron: The Rise of the New Conservative
Biographical account of the rise of David Cameron and his ascendance to the leadership of the Conservative Party.
Irving Kristol
NEO-CONSERVATISM: The autobiography of an idea
The godfather of neo-conservatism's collection of articles and essays spanning half a century
Irwin Selzer
THE NEOCON READER
Diverse anthology of well written essays
David Aikman
A MAN OF FAITH:The Spiritual Journey of George W.Bush
Former Time correspondent's enthusiastic portrait
Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke
America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order
Conservatives attack neo-conservatism
Patrick J. Buchanan
The Death of the West
Argues that dying populations and immigrant invasions imperil civilisation.
William F. Buckley
Let Us Talk of Many Things
Witty and erudite collection by the patron saint of US conservatism.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince
A landmark 16th century treatise on Realpolitik, concerned with retaining power rather than pursuing ideals
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
Influential 17th century argument for the administration of government to be entrusted to one rather than many
Peter Hitchens
The Abolition of Britain
Former socialist, journalist Peter Hitchens, argues the case for social and economic conservatism
Margaret Thatcher
"There is no such thing as society"
The Downing Street Years
Statecraft
The Path to Power
Todd Domke
The Conservative's Dictionary
A fascinating trawl through all aspects of conservatism
Iain Dale
Dictionary of Conservative Quotations
An amusing and stimulating reference work
Alan Clark
The late Alan Clark - former Thatcher Government cabinet minister
The Tories
Martin Blinkhorn
Fascists and Conservatives
Another perspective, and sure to spark off some heated discussion
Roger Scruton
A leading contemporary British Conservative thinker
Conservative Thinkers
John Kekes
A Case for Conservatism
Thoughtful look at Conservatism past and present
Nicholas Kochan
Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning
A lively biography of contemporary British Conservatism's most controversial woman