re: What are your Top 5 books about American Politics?

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Liberty & Tyranny, Levin (a great Cliff notes of 1&2, which I read in the fetal position after the Obaminaton was re-elected)

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Yup. After the re-election of the Kenyan we all sorta knew the year became 1936-ish, Germany (although the Manchurian Bamster Inc are still just puppets of his/their overlords.)

I once read the usual contemporary observers' political books (Pat Buchanan, Rush, Emmett Tyrrell) until discovering they only barely scraped the surface -- especially Rush.

Still the classics remain worthy. Imagine reading just ONE book (Benjamin Wiker) to read the following 15 classics? Sure its cheating a bit - Wiker provides his version of cliff notes and overview, but includes the meat and essence of each book. And they are all very good "political" books / authors. (yes, the Federalist Papers are there):

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The ten books are:

Aristotle's Politics

Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton

The New Science of Politics, by Eric Voegelin

The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis

Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke

Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (inspirational)

The Federalist Papers

The Anti-Federalists

The Servile State, by Hilaire Belloc

The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek

And the four not to be missed (and one impostor) are:

The Tempest, by William Shakespeare (a surprise)

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien (another surprise)

The Jerusalem Bible (solid)

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand (the fake "conservative" Author and book)