What is some Good Political / Philosophical Literature? Something that'd make you well read and informed.?

Question

I really like John Locke's "Two Treaties of the Government", but I am almost finishing that book. So, I'd like to find some new and decent political, philosophical read.
Just to let you know I am a conservative. therefore, please, exclude from your answers any extreme ideological books.

Thank you

Answer 1

The closing of the American mind by Professor Alan Bloom.

and if you are looking for a story intertwined you must go with Atlas Shrugged

the road to serfdom and 10 things you cant say in america are really good two mentioned above.

Answer 2

If you like Locke, try Larry Elder's "The Ten Things You Can't Say in America", or "The Ballad of Carl Drega" by Vin Suprynowicz. Also, Locke wrote other books, "On Government" being one. Get Thomas Jefferson's anything, He's amazing.

Answer 3

All the books by Adam Smith.
Anything by John Stuart Mill
Voltaire's "Candide"
Anything by Rouseau and Montesquieu (French political thinker. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, taken for granted in modern discussions of government and implemented in many constitutions all over the world.). Both of these great thinkers influenced our founding fathers a great deal as did Voltaire.
Anything by Thomas Jefferson
Anything by Benjamin Franklin
John Maynard Keynes later work.

Answer 4

" Animal Farm" by George Orwell is a great political novel. Its an allegory on the structure and corruption of government.
Also his "1984" book is also a good read. This one also deal with corruption of government.

Answer 5

F.A. Hayek "The Road to Serfdom" is a must-read.

Milton and Rose Friedman, "Free to Choose" is also a key read.

Let's see, anything by people who DIDN'T win the Nobel Prize in Economics...... hmmmmmm..... Basically anything by Ayn Rand.

Trix, why Keynes? Wouldn't you consider him as discredited as Malthus?