What books should every American student read before graduating high school?
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Current NRIE Poll Question – What Book Should Every American Student Read Before Graduating High School?
Posted by Ed Amatetti on July 24th, 2010
Filed under Contributions From NRIE Members, Curriclum | Tags: great books, high school books, New Renaissance In Education
The Making of America by W. Cleon Skousen. Published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies. Most incredible and complete history of the U.S. Constitution. For each section of the U.S. Constitution it includes each Founder’s writings related to that section so you understand what specifically they wrote and why, and what they meant by what they wrote.
If this organization is not hooked up with The National Center for Constitutional Studies it is missing a key lement in it’s efforts. They have tremendous teaching aids as well.
W. Cleon Skousen and his staff spend 16 years researching the Constitution before writing this book.
Joe Korode
The Law by Fredriac Bastiat–short, concise, complete!!
1. “The Bible”: as many of the founders intimated and John Adams said succinctly, “Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Take or leave the gift of Salvation within, but understand the Judeo-Christian morality and ethical foundation upon which our nation is built and thrives.
2. “The Road to Serfdom” by Friederich von Hayek: Econ as a natural law – not a method to government control of the huddled masses as Keynes taught.
3. “Free to Choose” by Milton and Rose Friedman: Re-iterating Hayek, with a bit more modern and even sometimes a feminine viewpoint – girls dig econ, too…
4. “The Forgotten Man” by Amity Shlaes: What happens when collectivists get their way?
5. “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand: Individual genius must stand strong against “the man” of the collectivist state. Going along to get along enslaves the soul.