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There are a handful of books our publisher has discovered over the years which have best helped him to understand life and its workings.  He would like to share these.


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Art Worlds by Howard S. Becker

On Power / The Natural History of Its Growth by Bertrand De Jouvenel

The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk

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How many years did I blunder about wondering how the arts business worked?  It never occurred to me to consult a sociologist.  You are luckier.  Open you eyes wide.

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The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk

On Power / The Natural History of Its Growth by Bertrand De Jouvenel

The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk

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You may have been raised to think Conservatives are people who just trudge along doing things as they have always been done.   Actually, rather than attaching themselves to the next novel thought, the Conservative Mind judges each new proposal by all of history.  It's a prodigious undertaking.  Their depth of thought probes the depths of life.

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On Power / The Natural History of Its Growth by Bertrand De Jouvenel

On Power / The Natural History of Its Growth by Bertrand De Jouvenel

On Power / The Natural History of Its Growth by Bertrand De Jouvenel

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De Jouvenal will help you to chart where your national politics sit and where they are tending neatly as you used to follow those dots on the TV screen as our astronauts orbited the earth.  Neither Machiavelli nor Nietzsche paint as lucid and useful a picture as De Jouvenel.   This is wheat.  Most else you will read nowadays is chaff.

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All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing by TImothy Steele

The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting & Running a Business by Steve Mariotti

On Power / The Natural History of Its Growth by Bertrand De Jouvenel

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For poets, this is the best book on meter and versification I've read.   Steele brings clarity to what can be and still remain baffling.  Steele is clear and lively.  For poets interested in wringing all that is available from the language - I'm tossing you a life ring here.  

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The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting & Running a Business by Steve Mariotti

The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting & Running a Business by Steve Mariotti

The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting & Running a Business by Steve Mariotti

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"Turn your ideas into money!"  This is a great book for a younger person with fun motivational true-life examples.  They will learn the basics of creating, building, and running their own business. This is an empowering tool that also provides a hands-on understanding of our free market system.    Why find a job, when you can make one?

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The Real Lincoln by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting & Running a Business by Steve Mariotti

The Young Entrepreneur's Guide to Starting & Running a Business by Steve Mariotti

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It's rather terrifying to realize how manipulated we are and how in error our opinions can be.  Welcome to the ebb and flow of history as seen through the Overton window of acceptable discourse.

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The Uses oF Pessimism by roger Scruton

How to be a conservative by roger scruton

How to be a conservative by roger scruton

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Sir Roger Scruton recently died, but he illuminated the Conservative argument with a clarity and stark honesty that will remain an increasingly sought out rare mind brandy for the thoughtful.  In this book he clearly defines the dark creature habits of unscrupulous optimism  and the healing balm a bit of pessimism offers.

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How to be a conservative by roger scruton

How to be a conservative by roger scruton

How to be a conservative by roger scruton

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Tired of buzzing about the one big idea till you drop?  Tired of Progressive angst?  Fed up with the Utopian community?  Why start all over again to reinvent the wheel?  Explore the richness and depth of the Conservative argument. 

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