JBS: Initial List of Approved Books
The first in an ongoing series of recommended reading lists I’ve come across over the years.
John Birch Society: Initial List of Approved Books (1961)
Barmine, Alexander: One Who Survived: The Life Story Of A Russian Under The Soviets
Barron, Bryton: Inside the State Department, A Candid Appraisal of the Bureaucracy
Bastiat, Frédéric: The Law
Bentley, Elizabeth: Out of Bondage: The Story of Elizabeth Bentley
Borkenau, Franz: European Communism
Brown, Elizabeth Churchill: The Enemy at His Back
Buckley, William F. Jr., and Bozell, L. Brent: McCarthy and His Enemies
Budenz, Louis Francis: The Techniques Of Communism
Bundy, Edgar C.: Collectivism in the Churches
Burnham, James: The Web Of Subversion
Caldwell, John Cope: South of Tokyo
Caldwell, John Cope: Still The Rice Grows Green
Castle, Eugene W.: Billions, Blunders And Baloney: The Fantastic Story of How Uncle Sam Is Squandering Your Money Overseas
Chamberlin, William Henry: America’s Second Crusade
Chambers, Whittaker: Witness
Cichanowski, Jan: Defeat In Victory
Creel, George: Russia’s Race For Asia
Dallin, David J.: Forced Labor In Soviet Russia
Dallin, David J.: Soviet Russia And The Far East
Dayton, Eldorous Lyons: Walter Reuther: The Autocrat of the Bargaining Table
Dies, Martin: The Trojan Horse In America
Draskovich, Slobodan M.: Tito: Moscow’s Trojan Horse
Eastman, Max: Reflections On The Failure Of Socialism
Evans, Medford: The Secret War For The A-Bomb
Fitch, Geraldine: Formosa Beachhead
Flynn, John T.: The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution
Flynn, John T.: While You Slept
Fox, Victor J.: The Pentagon Case
Fuller, Edmund: Man In Modern Fiction: Some Minority Opinions on Contemporary American Writing
Garrett, Garet: The People’s Pottage
Gitlow, Benjamin: The Whole Of Their Lives: Communism in America
Gordon, Rosalie M.: Nine Men Against America: The Supreme Court and its Attack on American Liberties
Gutierrez, Alberto Ostria: The Tragedy Of Bolivia: a People Crucified
Hayek, F.A.: Capitalism And The Historians
Hayek, F.A.: The Road To Serfdom
Hazlitt, Henry: Economics In One Lesson
Heinsohn, A.G.: One Man’s Fight For Freedom
Hoover, J. Edgar: Masters Of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It
Hughes, Frank: Prejudice And The Press: A Restatement of the Principle of Freedom of the Press
Hunter, Edward: The Black Book On Red China
Jewkes, John: Ordeal By Planning
Jordan, George Racey: From Major Jordan’s Diaries
Kilpatrick, James Jackson: The Sovereign States: Notes of a Citizen of Virginia
Kirk, Russell: The Conservative Mind
Kravchenko, Victor: I Chose Freedom: The Personal Political Life of a Soviet Official
Krivitsky, Walter: In Stalin’s Secret Service
Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von: Liberty Or Equality, the Challenge of Our Times
Lane, Arthur Bliss: I Saw Poland Betrayed: An American Ambassador Reports To The American People
Lasky, Victor and de Toledano, Ralph: Seeds Of Treason
Lipper, Elinor: Eleven Years In Soviet Prison Camps
Lyons, Eugene: Assignment In Utopia
Lyons, Eugene: The Red Decade
McCarthy, Joseph R.: America’s Retreat From Victory
Mackiewicz, Joseph: The Katyn Wood Murders
Manly, Chesly: The Twenty-Year Revolution from Roosevelt to Eisenhower
Martin, David: Ally Betrayed: The Uncensored Story Of Tito And Mihailovich
Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw: The Rape Of Poland: Pattern of Soviet Aggression
Mises, Ludwig von: Human Action
Moorehead, Alan: The Traitors: The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo, and Nunn May
Moreell, Ben: The Admiral’s Log: God, Man, Rights, Government
Morris, Robert: No Wonder We Are Losing
O’Brien, Jon A.: Thunder From The Left: The Story of Marxianism in Action
Oneal, James and Werner, G. A.: American Communism
Philbrick, Herbert A.: I Led Three Lives
Reinhardt, Guenther: Crime Without Punishment: The Secret Soviet Terror Against America
Roe, Wellington: Juggernaut: American Labor in Action
Root, E. Merrill: Brainwashing In The High Schools
Root, E. Merrill: Collectivism On The Campus
Rozek, Edward J.: Allied Wartime Diplomacy: A Pattern in Poland
Rudd, Augustin, G.: Bending The Twig: The Revolution in Education and its Effect on our Children
Schmertzing, Wolfgang P. von: Outlawing The Communist Party
Schwarzschild, Leopold: The Red Prussian: The Life and Legend of Karl Marx
Serge, Victor: Russia Twenty Years After
Shub, David: Lenin: A Biography
Skousen, W. Cleon: The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom
Smith, Mortimer: And Madly Teach: A Layman Looks at Public Education
Souvarine, Boris: Stalin: A Critical Survey of Bolshevism
Spencer, Herbert: The Man Versus The State
Sumner, William: What Social Classes Owe To Each Other
Tansill, Charles C.: Back Door To War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1933-1941
Teller, Edward and Latter, Albert L.: Our Nuclear Future: Facts, Dangers and Opportunities
Theobald, Robert A.: The Final Secret Of Pearl Harbor
Utley, Freda: The China Story
Utley, Freda: The High Cost Of Vengeance
Valtin, Jan: Out Of The Night
Van der Vlugt, Ebed: Asia Aflame, Communism in the East
Veale, F.J.P.: Advance To Barbarism: The Development of Total Warfare from Sarajevo to Hiroshima
Weaver, Henry Grady: The Mainspring Of Human Progress
Wedemeyer, Albert C.: Wedemeyer Reports
Weissberg, Alexander: The Accused
Welch, Robert R.: The Life Of John Birch
White, W.L.: Report On The Russians
Widener, Alice: Behind The U.N. Front
Willoughby, Charles A.: Shanghai Conspiracy: The Sorge Spy Ring
Wittmer, Felix: The Conquest Of The American Mind: Comments on Collectivism in Education
Wormser, Rene A.: Foundations: Their Power and Influence
Yutang, Lin: The Vigil Of A Nation