1. Donald Livingston, ed., Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century
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A group of contemporary scholars make the case that the United States has grown too big to function as a government of the people under one central authority.
2. Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand: The South And the Agrarian Tradition
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The classic description of a humane alternative to both industrial capitalism and communism.
3. Herbert Agar and Allen Tate, eds., Who Owns America: A New Declaration of Independence
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Northern and British writers join in the Agrarian philosophy.
4. Richard Weaver, In Defense of Tradition
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More indispensable Weaver historical and philosophical writings.
5. John Taylor of Caroline, An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States
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The definitive exposition of Jeffersonian political economy.
6. Clyde N. Wilson, From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition
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A collection of essays on and in the Jeffersonian tradition.
7. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?: Essays
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Essays by America’s foremost environmentalist and spokesman for localism and sustainable agriculture.
8. Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
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Philosophical meditations on the present state of the world by a great Southern novelist.