14 must-read nonfiction books like Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg

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Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization

By: Samuel Gregg

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

By: Tom Holland

4.16

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Economical Writing

By: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

3.13

Format: 192 pages,

A valuable short guide for mastering the craft of academic writing! Students and young professional… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Known and loved by generation after generation, this shrewd amateur detective, with faithful Dr Wat… read more

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5. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

By: Charles Mackay

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited a… read more

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6. The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

By: Thomas Sowell

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the pas… read more

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7. The Valley of Fear

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Audio CD

The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more

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8. The Law

By: Frédéric Bastiat

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law? How is it that the law permit… read more

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9. Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth

By: Norman F. Cantor , Dee Ranieri

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstiti… read more

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10. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

By: James C. Scott

4.20

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"

-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

11. God Has a Name

By: John Mark Comer

4.67

Format: 523 pages,

Many of us ache for relationship with God, yet feel distant and disconnected from him. As if he's m… read more

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12. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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14. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

By: Gad Saad

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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15. The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

By: Walter Russell Mead

4.22

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of God and Gold and Special Providence, a groundbreaking new work that o… read more

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  • politics
  • religion
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

By: Daniel James Brown

4.49

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

By: Michael Shellenberger

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

By: Peter Turchin

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

By: Melissa S. Kearney

3.88

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest econ… read more

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  • cultural
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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20. Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization

By: Samuel Gregg

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"Gregg's book is the closet thing I've encountered in a long time to a one-volume user's manual for… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Gregg's Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization book and Samuel Gregg's Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization

  • cultural
  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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21. The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It

By: John Micklethwait

3.67

Format: 176 pages, ebook

"[An] executive summary of modern political history studded with sweeping assertions and telling an… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

10 must-read history books like Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg

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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Tom Holland

4.16

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

3.61

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott

4.20

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

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Rob Henderson

4.26

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Greg Lukianoff

3.93

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Social Justice Fallacies

Thomas Sowell

4.45

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